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[Tellemurius]

alright install this: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=D3F8F6AB-84F1-4095-8709-DF509B1BEE22&displaylang=en but i cannot help you along the way, its been i while since i screwed with the language setting on my pc.

[ragnarok97071]

Yay, it's started.
I need to print out the stuff at some point.
For now, txt file.

[Itnetlolor]

It looks like some of the alphabets are lined up oddly. Is it possible to use teletype on those to align them?

[fqllve]

They're lined up fine for me, but I'm using GNOME with the Japanese language pack installed.

       

[Leafsnail]

Class of Japanese of Bay 12...?

[ein]

Bay12's Japanese Class.

[Leafsnail]

Fair enough.

I learnt most of the alphabets using drag and drop exercises and the like.  That way the few stubborn bastards my brain refused to memorize (Nu, I'm looking at you) became the ones I recognised best .

[ein]

Lesson 2: Alphabets Part II
★☆☆☆☆

In addition to the normal kana, there are modifiers that, when applied to a letter, change the sound.
There are the tenten and maru, and little letters.
The tenten makes the sound more vocal, such as changing て (te) into で (de).
The maru is only ever used to turn the h sound into p, such as は (ha) into ぱ (pa).

	Ａ	Ｉ	Ｕ	Ｅ	Ｏ
Ｇ	が	ぎ	ぐ	げ	ご
	ガ	ギ	グ	ゲ	コ
Ｚ	ざ	じ	ず	ぜ	ぞ
	ザ	ジ	ズ	ゼ	ゾ
Ｄ	だ	ぢ	づ	で	ど
	ダ	ヂ	ヅ	デ	ド
Ｂ	ば	び	ぶ	べ	ぼ
	バ	ビ	ブ	ベ	ボ
Ｐ	ぱ	ぴ	ぷ	ぺ	ぽ
	パ	ピ	プ	ペ	ポ

Again, some of the sounds don't use the same consonant as the others in the group:
じーji
ぢーji
づーzu

Little letters are small versions of つ and the y group.
For most consonant groups, the little letters (with the exception of っ) will add a y consonant to the previous consonant sound.
For example, とうきょう is not pronounced toh-key-oh, as most foreigners will pronounce it, but rather, toh-kyoh.
じ, し, and ち consonants, however, will not have the y added, they will simply have the following vowel sound changed.
For example, おちゃ (tea) and じゃがいも (potato).　

	Ａ	Ｕ	Ｏ
Ｋｙ	きゃ	きゅ	きょ
	キャ	キィ	キュ
Ｇｙ	ぎゃ	ぎゅ	ぎょ
	ギャ	ギュ	ギョ
Ｓｈ	しゃ	しゅ	しょ
	シャ	シュ	ショ
Ｊ	じゃ	じゅ	じょ
	ジャ	ジュ	ジョ
Ｃｈ	ちゃ	ちゅ	ちょ
	チャ	チュ	チョ
Ｎｙ	にゃ	にゅ	にょ
	ニャ	ニュ	ニョ
Ｈｙ	ひゃ	ひゅ	ひょ
	ヒャ	ヒュ	ヒョ
Ｂｙ	びゃ	びゅ	びょ
	ビャ	ビュ	ビョ
Ｐｙ	ぴゃ	ぴゅ	ぴょ
	ピャ	ピュ	ピョ
Ｍｙ	みゃ	みゅ	みょ
	ミャ	ミュ	ミョ
Ｒｙ	りゃ	りゅ	りょ
	リャ	リュ	リョ

Katakana has a few modified characters not found in hiragana.

	Ａ	Ｉ	Ｕ	Ｅ	Ｏ
Ｖ	ヴァ	ヴィ	ヴ	ヴェ	ヴォ
Ｓ		スィ
Ｔ		ティ	テゥ
Ｆ	ファ	フィ	フ	フェ	フォ
Ｗ		ウィ		ウェ

There are many more combinations than this, but it is likely you will never need them, or, by the time you do need them, you'll have figured this out on your own.

Little っ is hard to explain.
It's like a glottal stop with added emphasis on the next letter.
Like the hyphen in uh-oh.
With an s as the succeeding consonant, っ becomes a hissing sound.
I'll explain it more in-depth in a lesson with pronunciation.

[Outcast Orange]

So far this and this have been very helpful to me.

[FuzzyZergling]

I took three semesters of japanese.
In the time between each class, all the knowlege would seep out of my brain. It was depressing, I was like "Why can't I learn basic grammer?!"

[Zaerosz]

This is going to be incredibly useful, I hope. I have four months to learn enough Japanese to be able to have a simple conversation, or else I'm screwed.

[Aklyon]

It would be nice if ein hasn't abandoned this.

[Zaerosz]

aaaaaand THIS is why I should always check the date on the last post. I didn't realise this board was so slow that a two-month-old post would only be on the second page.

[ein]

Haha, wow.
I didn't abandon it, I forgot, or rather, it got lost in Holiday shenanigans.

[Zaerosz]

So we might see more updates?