Say Hello in the Japanese Language

Nihongo

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English:	Good afternoon	I am (your name)
Japanese:	Konnichiwa	Watakushi-wa (your name), desu
Pronunciation:	Koh-NEE-cheewah	Wah-TAHK-sheewah (your name), DEHSS
Japanese Script:

Did You Know You Were Speaking Japanese?

Words in English from the Japanese language:

samurai	dojo	tofu
haiku	kimono	tsunami
karate	kamikaze	zen

Japanese Characters

• Ka takana for Kids
• Hi ragana for Kids
• Jap anese Alphabet

Learning Japanese

• The Japanese Language
• Kids Web: Japanese
• Weekly Japanese Lessons
• Talk Japanese
• Japanese Language Profile
• Sushi Vocabulary
• NASA: Voyager Audio Greeting in Japanese
• Jeffrey's Japanese-English Dictionary
• English-Japanese Picture Dictionary
• Japanese in Japan learning videos in Japanese with translations

Japanese Culture

• An Overview of the History of the Japanese Language
• Timeline of Japanese History
• Lessons: Japanese Proverbs
• Kabuki for Everyone
• Joseph Wu's Origami Page
• Learn to Make Basic Origami
• Castles of Japan
• Traditional Japanese Music
• Japense Prints
• Beginnger's Guide of Sumo - Japan Sumo Association (Nihon Sumo Kyokai)
• History of the Kimono
• Japanese Dining Etiquette
• Schauwecker's Guide to Japan: Table Manners
• Japanese Recipes
• Country Study of Japan
• CIA World Factbook: Japan
• Japan: International Travel

Who Can You Talk To?

There are 122,000,000 people in Japan, American Samoa, Argentina, Australia, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Dominican Republic, Germany, Guam, Mexico, Micronesia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States of America who speak Japanese.

Now you can say hello to 122,000,000 people!*

*Source: Ethnologue: Japanese (2005)

Say Hello to the World was created by Lorri Mon.