Language

Pronounce Japanese language
FRENCH PHONETICS ONLY. Learn how to correctly pronouce the Japanese language. Presentation of the Japanese phonetics.Read Japanese characters
FRENCH EXPLANATIONS ONLY. Learn to read the JApanese characters. Presentation of all the writing systems.Write Japanese characters
FRENCH EXPLANATIONS ONLY. Learn to draw Japanese characters folloing the right order for each strokes.Examples of words transcribed into Japanese
FRENCH EXPLANATIONSONLY. Examples of words from foreign origin transcribed into Japanese, found in the streets or shops in Japan.Type in Japanese
Use this to type japanese characters using any computer.Transcribe in Japanese
FRENCH PHONETICS ONLY. Use this tool to transcribe any word into Japanese characters.Exercises with the writing book.
FRENCH ONLY. Train your writing using the writing book developped by japanophone.

What is it about?

Japonophone presents an overview of the Japanese language, its specificities and its phonetics.

The Japanese language is not difficult to pronounce but due to the Hepburn transcription method, it is not natural to pronounce for an English speaker when reading the letters. Some practice may be necessary to get to the right prononciation.

The language it-self is not so difficult to grasp as a beginner, but the writing system is often seeing as an unsurmountable montain. However, if the ideographic system (the kanji, the Chinese characters used in Japanese) can be rather long to master, the learning of the phonetical systems (hiragana et katakana) is readily achievable. The kanji can be studied on the long run and may replace gradualy your words written in kana.

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