Quick-and-dirty guide to Japanese

"lessons" online

• FreeJapaneseLessons
• nihongoresources.com

Wikipedia

• Wikibook!!!
• japanese writing
  • Kanji=china
  • Kana=japan (Hiragana, Katakana)
  • Romaji=western
• Rōmaji (AKA "roumaji", "roomazi", "roomadi", ... haha)
  • Main three: Hepburn, Nihon-shiki, Kunrei-shiki
  • JSL
  • Wāpuro rōmaji, for QWERTY keyboard input (many variants, not standardized)
• japanese language
  • grammar
• computer input/encodings
  • unicode
    • character mapping
    • Han unification (kanji shared with Chinese and Korean)
  • Shift-JIS
  • EUC-JP
  • JIS keyboard
• list of learning resources
• list of Japanese borrowed words

Words

• super-simple phrases (thank you, please, yes, ...)
• less simple phrases
• big.or.jp/~otake
• -san, -kun, and -chan
• slang.... one, two

Mora/Kana

• nihongoresources.com
• Kana + Romaji tables: everything2, kanjidict.stc.cx, one, two, three, four, five, six, GIS
• Kana/Romaji flashcards: dragonmedia.us, kana.gerke-preussner.de, one, two, three, four five, pdf, LOTS
• stroke order: one, two, three, four k/h, five h/k
• other
  • similarity graphs: Hiragana, Katakana

Words/Kanji

• nihongoresources.com
• numbers: one, two, three