This table will eventually hold the links to all of the Japanese Vocabulary blasters, 150 in total. Each list contains 15 Japanese words that you can use in daily conversation. Since fluency is in the eye of the locutor, the amount of vocabulary you know, may or may not, equate to fluency in Japanese. If you did know perhaps 4000 words (which is the goal behind the Japanese vocabulary blasters)then who is going to say you don't know Japanese? I have heard it said, that fluency in a language can be measured in the amount of vocabulary that the locutor wields. Somewhere between 4000 - 4500 words to be considered fluent. Whether that is true or not I am still undecided, however, I do know this, knowledge and skill in using 4000 foreign words, in whatever language it may be can't hurt. Suggestions on using the Japanese Vocabulary Blasters: 1. print them out, carry the list with you, and get your friends to quiz you on the words you memorize. 2. Set a goal of how many words you want to memorize over some period of time. (Learn 2 blasters every week, or more depending on how fast you can memorize and how fast you want to start speaking in Japanese.) For example, an intensely motivated Japanese language learner might attempt to memorize 2 blasters every 2 days. That is- 30 words every 2 days. A less stressful rate might be 2 blasters every week. Only you can decide what will be your best rate of memorizing new vocabulary, and at what pace will benefit your Japanese language learning the most. Go at your own pace and find your groove to memorizing. We don't want to sacrifice retention for the sake of quantity of vocabulary terms learned. Below are the links to the first 50 Japanese Vocabulary Blasters. Soak em in! As Always, Ganbatte Ne! Do Your Best! Makurasuki Sensei - 18 months ago

The list of Japanese words, phrases, sayings, and other useful expressions found below are current or colloquial enough so that when you put them to use in your Japanese conversations, you won't sound like a Japanese Grandpa. The list below is up to date and will keep you from sounding like you learned your Japanese from the great US Naval commander, Commodore Perry. Don't get me wrong, pre-World War II Japanese is certainly considered polite language, but knowing how to say the words of the ancient samurai may be as useful as knowing 'Old' or 'Middle' English in the 21st century. Most language course material is so old that it is practically useless. My best advice is to get the most current edition of all your language study guides, books, and materials. Dictionaries of languages are continually being revised; They are updated and modified,and since words, like bread, become stale and occassionally moldy with age, words can and often do fall out of usefulness in colloquial speech. Although an interesting subject for study, ancient Japanese isn't going to be handy if you want to converse in a modern Japan. For those who want to converse in Japanese now, it may be better to spend your time studying and learning Japanese phrases that are actally used right now in modern Japan. (This Japanese word list is up to date as of 2008 December). A lot of times, Japanese learning tools like grammar guides, expression books, and dictionaries become outdated and the information contained therein become useless. In conversing with the world in other languages it is necessary to revise the words of a dictionary. The following Japanese phrases are currently colloquial as of 2009 and can be used in your Japanese language conversations right away. Learn the following Japanese words, phrases, sayings and other useful expressions to help build a strong Japanese word resevoir that you can draw upon. Success in a language starts with knowing the words of that language. Give this Japanese word/phrase/expression list a look over and pick out words that stick out to you first; Words that help you visualize a hint as to how to pronounce them. Something about a word that sticks out can help you remember that word. Making some correlation between your home language words and the second language will help when memorizing. The correlation you use to remember the words/phrases/sayings/expressions might remind you of something it resembles in English. Any way you can devise to familiarize yourself with the memorization of words will help in their retention. Not only that, but I bet you'll be surprised at how many Japanese phrases you might already know. - 10 months ago

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These are the words 15 new words every 2 days GO! 1. te - hand 2. hana - nose, or flower 3. mimi - ears 4. kuchi - mouth 5. deguchi - exit 6. iriguchi - entrance 7. atama - head 8. kata - shoulders 9. hiza - lap, knees 10. ashi - feet, or foot 11. hanaji - nose bleed 12. itamu - to be in pain 13. atama ga itai - headache 14. zetsu - fever 15. zetsu ga aru - have a fever Japanese Vocabulary Blaster #2 1. yubinkyoku - post office 2. oshieru - to teach 3. hanasu - to speak, 4. hanasu - to release, to let go, to seperate 5. o-cha - tea 6. mugicha - wheat tea 7. kocha - green tea 8. uroncha - oolong tea 9. kohi^ - coffee 10. tsukuru - to make 11. sentakki - washing machine 12. sentaku - laundry 13. sentaku suru -to choose, or do laundry 14. futoru - to get fat 15. gaikoku - foreign land(s) Get your friends to quiz you on these then go on to learn more with these Japanese Vocabulary Blasters. As Always, Ganbatte Ne! Do Your Best! McCluskey Sensei. Note - Japanese Vocabulary Blaster #2 is included here so your next set of Japanese Vocabulary starts at #3 and will continue until 4000 / 15 words = go on to memorize your next 15 here at Japanese Vocabulary 3 - 18 months ago

On Counting in Japanese -  Study Strategem                                 1 – ichi 2 – ni 3 – san   4 – shi, yon 5 – go 6 - roku 7 –shichi, nana 8 – hachi, ha 9 – kyu, ku 10 – ju, to 11 – ju ichi 12 – ju ni 13 – ju san    then (14-19 etc.)  20 –ni ju 21 – ni ju ichi 22 – ni ju ni 30 – san ju 31 - san ju ichi 95 – kyu ju go 99 – kyu ju kyu 100 – hyaku 101 – hyaku ichi 108 – hyaku hachi 197 – hyaku kyu ju nana (shichi) 200 – ni hyaku 300 – sam byaku 400 – yon hyaku 500 –go hyaku 600 – roppyaku 700 – nanahyaku 800 – happyaku 900 – kyuhyaku 1000 – sen 1001 – sen ichi 2000 ni sen, etc Counting Strategies Recite to yourself the numbers in Japanese from zero to one million, and then back to zero again. Yes it gets a little tedious all those numbers from zero to one million and then back again over and over again. Other strategies worth considering count from 0 to 1 million by 2’s, by 3’s, by 4’s and by 5’s, 6’s, 7’s, 8’s, 9’s, and 10’s. Some numbers seemed for some reason or another harder than the others, so I would concentrate more on the hard ones. I don’t think I tried 11’s.  The more your mouth and brain coordinate all their efforts in the target language, the more accustomed the muscles of the lips, teeth and tongue will be to this foreign language. Keep practicing until you can say all the numbers smoothly and without hesitation. Always practice with correct pronunciation. When practicing your speech start slowly and make sure you enunciate your vocabulary as close to a native as you can correctly. Anything you can say slowly you can say quickly. 1. Count from zero to 1 million then count backwards once you arrive at 1 million, counting from 1 million to zero. If 1 million seems tough, it would be o.k. to go as far as you can, but maybe stretch yourself a little, a least 99,000 or something. You want to get good don’t you? Setting language goals of your target language helps you achieve them. 2. Count up the odd numbers from 0 to 1 million 3. Count up the even numbers from 0 to 1 million 4. Do #2 and #3 counting back to zero from 1 million 5. Count in multiples, and multiples of numbers by 3’s, 4’s 5’s etc for example for the 3's it would be 3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,27. For the 2's it would be 2,4,6,8 who do we appreciate! etc. 6. Do long division by saying out loud the problem in Japanese. An example of this would be 8 / 2 = 4, or hachi waru ni ekoru (=) yon. Here are some handy math related Japanese word to help you in your vocabulary building endeavors: To add – tasu To subtract – hiku To multiply -kakeru To divide – waru ex.  8 x 8 = 16 hachi kake hachi wa ju roku desu or 8 times 8 is 16. or you could say hachi kake hachi ekoru juroku desu. Being able to think in terms of numbers in a different language doesn't sink into your psyche until you’ve actually recited the numbers from zero to one million (1,000,000) a couple of times, using the above suggestions, easily  without hesitation. Eventually you will get to the point where you can count in another language without even blinking an eye. One of the secrets of fluency sprouts from the ability to think in the target language. If you catch yourself thinking in the target language you are on the road to SL2 mastery if that; if you catch yourself dreaming in the target language you have reached an even better signpost, keep practicing you have still much to learn. Heading towards fluency one might get to a point where the dreams they see would be in Japanese and it didn’t matter who or what type of people were in the dreams, everybody spoke  Japanese.  The more one thinks in the target language the more apt they are to acquire the skills necessary to use it conversationally.  There isn't a fast and easy road to fluency. It takes hard work, goal-oriented study, persistent practice and an iron will coupled with an abundance of motivation to excel in a second language. Those who persevere will be well rewarded in their endeavors.         http://www.clickapps.com/moreinfo.htm?pid=1666&a=883 - 16 months ago

OK so here goes! The Following isn't just some humdrum useless list of never to be used vocabulary, this is 'The Motts'. These words should come in handy at some point in your acquisition of the Japanese language.  While living in Japan, I kept a Journal of my doings. Along side of my nightly journal entries, I would re-copy all the words that I heard throughout the day, taken from a small note pad from which I used to memorize vocabulary and then right before I went to sleep, I would transfer them to my nikki (diary) filtering out the words that weren't real words and putting them in a nice and neat orderly fashion. Somedays I had quite a few words that I thought were words but when I searched for them in the dictionary there was no such thing. In reality, what really happened was that my ears at that time were just starting to get adjusted to the sounds of the Japanese language.  One of the main reasons why I couldn't find a word was because nobody had told me that I needed to make the distinction between a long vowel sound and a short one. Since I was just a novice Japanese Dictionary user, if I heard a word that was of the long vowel type, I thought that I just wasn't hearing things correctly... yet. As soon as I figured out how to differentiate the sounds of a single a sound, from a doubled aa sound, and simlilarly a single i, from a double ii, the once undecipherable, non-existent words magically appeared in my dictionary. It was SL2 epiphany. So needless to say, it is important to pay careful attention to the lenth of vowels in Japanese words. Vowel length makes a big difference in the world of Japanese words. There were days when I wanted to give up my attemtps to learn how to speak Japanese. But through a little persistence it would eventually come to me. It was a lot of hard work, but I did the work in little baby steps. I remember listening to the radio to see if I could understand anything, but the Japanese would be speaking so fast and I could only catch maybe one word out of 5 minutes worth of conversation. I would try to start a conversation with the Japanese but the words were whirling around me at light speed, it seemed I could never catch on to what they were saying. But I persisted, and it paid off. Brick by brick, piece by piece, here a little, there a little, I had to have some milk before I could ge to the meat. By that time, the ever courteous and polite Japanese would begin to speak to me in English - broken- but nevertheless understandable. But, still that didn't curb my appetite for complete mastery of the Japanese language. It was my goal to be able to speak in Japanese with a Japanese like a Japanese, and I would give any and all things to obtain it.   This list is filtered to make sure that they will be useful to you. I hope you enjoy my random useful list of Japanese words and phrases hand selected for you to use as you see fit. ensou - a musical performance joukyou - circumstances kokuren - The United Nations takeuma - lit. bamboo horse = stilts aite - the other party, one's opponent, rival or match idou - move, travel densen suru - to be contagious suzume - sparrow nikko - sunlight gekko - moonlight ensoku suru - to go on a picnic gakudan - an orchestra, a band fuke - dandruff ensoukai - recital, piano etc ryuugaku suru - to study abroad ryuugakusei - foreign exchange student fumikiri - lit. to step and cut or railroad crossing oyayubi - lit. parent finger or thumb tsurai - difficult, hardship, hard, painful, trying nameru - to lick kagaku - science moufu - blanket denshigaku - electronics kitsune - fox honki de...? - seriously...? maji de...? - seriously..? kenpou -  a constitution kokka - a national anthem terekusai - embarassing niau - to go well with, clothes, hats etc, to look good in seiza suru - to sit upright (square) traditional Japanese kneeling or sitting posture ninki - popularity chuuto hanpa - half-assed, mickey moused, careless, halfway unsatisfactory inshou - impression honmono da - it's the real thing sugoi - bitchin, awesome, great!, righteous, amazing, super kando suru - to be impressed chousen suru - to challenge, attempt kyoudou suru - to cooperate kigen ga kireru - to expire (time), time limit jibika -ears, nose, and  throat doctor zatsuon - t.v., radio interference douryoku - to try, to strive boeki - trade teian suru - to suggest kankakuteki na - sensual giri no otousan - father-in-law kemushi - caterpillar nokogiru - to saw kyousei suru -to compel, dorodarake - muddy kuuki o nuku - deflate (air in tire etc) ton demo nai - ain't no thing atarimae ja nai? - naturally! irezumi - tattoo momo - peach, thighs kakoyoku - to look good in your clothes, studly, or chic kakowarui - to look like crap ( in your clothes) niau -it fits you, it suits you, it looks good on you monomane - mime, imitate chigau yo! - nuh uh! no way its different! jishin - self, earthquake zettai - for sure nenrei ni kankei nai(aru) - has nothing to do with age sugoku kiken - extremely dangerous anata ni chousen - do you dare? kiite inai - I haven't heard hazukashigari - bashful ketten - weaknesses tsumari - in summation, in other words haguki - gums (mouth) tsuneru - to pinch shikeru - to go stale, to get old or moldy mukatsuku or mugatsuku - thoroughly pissed off hineru - twist, twirl wrench sanagi - cocoon furitsuke - choreography awabi - shell fish kaki - persimmon butai - the stage chigau t'omou (I) don't think so sou shite - do it that way then iran - (I) don't need it or any of it iranai - same as iran toriaezu - for the time being gaikoku no yarikata - the way foreigners do it komakai - change (money), details kirawareru - to be hated tsurete iku - to take someone tsurete kuru - to bring someone suiei suru - to go swimming oyogu - to swim douyou shiyasui - unstable kitai hazure - a letdown sougouteki na - synthetic stay tuned for more useful vocabulary you can plug and play into all the Ghetto Grammar constructions. As Always Ganbatte Ne! Do Your Best! Makurasuki Sensei.   - 14 months ago

This text of the first 100 essential words in Japanese is not scripture, but it gives you a good one hundred words to start your study with.   1. mon - gateway 2. After- ato,go 3. Again - mata, futatabi 4. All - subete,zenbu 5. Almost - hotondo 6. Also - mo 7. Always - itsumo 8. And -so^shite,ya, ka 9. Because - nazenaraba 10. Before - mae, mae ni 11. Big - okii 12. But - shikashi,ga,keredomo,kedo 13. (I) can - (watakushi wa)dekiru 14. (I) come -(watakushi wa) kuru 15. Either/or - dochira ka 16. (I) find - mitsukeru 17. First - saisho 18. For - no tame ni 19. Friend -tomodachi, yu^jin 20. From - kara 21. (I) go - iku 22. Good - yoi, ii 23. Good-bye - dewa mata, sayo^nara, ja mata ne 24. Happy(happiness) - shiawase 25. (I) have - (watakushi wa) motsu 26. He - kare 27. Hello - konnichiwa (lit. good afternoon) 28. Here - koko 29. How - do^ yatte 30. I - watakushi,ware(old style), ore(male), boku(young male), washi(old man), watashi(female) 31. (I) am - iru(to exist) 32. If - moshi 33. In - naka ni 34. (I) know - shitte iru 35. Last - saigo^ 36. (I) like - suki 37.a little -, sukoshi, chikotto 38. (I) love -  ai suru 39. (I) make - tsukuru 40. Many - takusan 41. One - hitotsu 42. More - motto 43. Most - mottomo  44. Much - takusan, ippai 45. My - watakushi no,  etc. 46. New - atarashii 47. No - iie, chigau 48. Not - dewa nai 49. Now - ima 50. Of - no 51. Somtimes - toki doki 52. On - ue 53. One - ippon, ichidai, 54. Only- dake 55. Or - ka 56. Other - hoka no 57. Our - watakushi tachi no 58. Out - soto 59. Over - owari 60. People - hitobito 61. Place - tokoro, bashou 62. Please - o negai shimasu, kudasai 63. Same - onaji 64. (I) see, to see - miru, (naruhodo) 65. She - kanojo 66. So - so 67. Some -ikutsuka no 68. Sometimes, occasionally - tama ni, toki doki 69. Still - shizuka na 70. Such - so no yo^ na 71. (I) tell - iu, tsutaeru 72. Thank you - domo arigatou gozaimasu 73. That - sore 74. The - no equivalent 75. Their - karera no 76. Them - karera 77. Then - sore kara 78. There is - aru 79. They -karera 80. Thing - nanika, 81. (I)think - so^ omou 82. This - kore 83. Time - jikan, toki 84. To - ni 85. Under - shita 86. Up - ue 87. Us - watakushi tachi, etc. 88. (I) use - tsukau 89. Very - tottemo 90. We - watakushi tachi 91. What - nani 92. When - itsu 93. Where - doko 94. Which - dore 95. Who - dare 96. Why - naze 97. With - to, to tomo ni 98. Yes - hai 99. You - anata 100. Your - anata no Some words have no basic equivalent in both languages. Next lens will explore why? Get your vocabulary building Power Word Lists provided free by Japanetics Comes once a week a list of 15 X 7 essential words in Japanese. Starting with Japanese verbs, you will also learn Japanese nouns, Japanese adjectives and Japanese verbs, plus get a bonus Japanese grammar concept with each Japanese words list. Get these Japanese language word lists today by going to Japanese Vocabulary Index on Squidoo - 16 months ago

Suggestions for  reading music faster when sight reading Pre-scan and analysis. Sight read and play. I. Preliminary Scan and Analysis 1. Scan the Time signature 2. Find the lowest common note value. the extreme values for the piece at hand. Also pay attention to the rythmical clusters or patterns. If any look complex, tackle those vulnerabilities right away. If you can successfully perform the rhythm of the written page, you'r sight reading battle. Sometimes you may have to approximate the feel of the rhythm until later you gain a more solid and sure. It is far better to guess and keep the pulse flowing than it is to stop and try and figure it out perfectly the first run through. 2. After checking the time signature proceed to investigate the key of the piece or tonality. By knowing the tonality we can better approximate where  our hands WON'T be playing. This comes from again as I said above, being able to play in all 24 keys without looking at the keyboard The key of the piece will help in our placement of of fingers over the keys. Take an inventory and mentally note what are the highest, and lowest notes  to be played in the piece. This is smart because you know you will never have to play lower than the lowest nor higher than the highest. (This goes for 1 above too, by knowing the longest and shortest values of all possible rhythmical variations presented by the piece we'll know by process of elimination the things that we WON'T have to play. 3. Next theory comes into play. You have to look at the melodic patterns, take mental note of their periodicity. (Mozart is highly predictable) Compare phrases and then identify the accompaniment figure represented usually by the left hand. Things typical of stage 3 here would be looking at the melody patterns to see any prevailing chordal patterns  We want later to put any such patterns we notice into as few amount of 'handfuls' as we can. Also during this point which I might remind you is very very brief, see if there are any significant areas that represent contrary, oblique, or parallel movement  that might assist us in correctly sight reading the piece. 4. Count a full measure for free to yourself before you actually play the first sound but after that first measure ...GO! II. The Actual sight reading begins 1. Read all the notes in a pattern as a single unit, quickly taking advantage of any patterns we recognize as chord outlines or scale lines. 2. Place you fingers over the correct keys for each pattern or single unit or 'handful'. This is facilitated by our ever enduring love of scale practice, which we faithfully perform like an accompanist's mantra to the east 3 times daily. 3. Play the patterns using the fingers which are above the appropriate keys. Less hand movement the better and plus we know the highest and lowest points or range of where the handfuls will be played. 4. Constantly look forward in your music Heave Ho! yo! You look ahead for new patterns  and hand positions, so your mind has to think inside of itself. You have got to be able to multitask at this point. Just keep playing and also in your mind at the same time decipher this new part or pattern that you see is coming up. Don't panic, you can do it. You've got the power. I know you can do it! 5.There will never be enough time to get it right the first run through, so knowing that you can lighten up. There is never time to go back and start again for those unseeming fould mistakes that our hands just happened to stumble upon. Its not even necessary to try to be perfect, just close as possible is good enough for the first reading and if you happen to play it flawless the first time, congratulations, you are know a part of the elite group of folk I like to label speed music sight reading professionals. Please if you take one thing from these suggestions take this. DO NOT STOP To Correct mustakes. 6. Above all watch the music not your hands, the music has a way of playing itself, you are just the medium through which it travels.  thank you that concludes the suggestions for speed music sight reading power session  Ultimo Magic and training gift. I let you have it but if you want even more strange theory on this fascinating subject read on and dont forget to visit my sponsors. Sheetmusicplus.com and freescores.net and perhaps update your current inventory of music. You know you've been wanting to buy that now for a long time. Well here is your chance. Get that music and show everybody how you have become proficient in your skills and are nearing mastery of speed music sight reading. &n - 16 months ago