Ohayoogozaimasu !

Yesterday, while trying to dust off my memory from Japanese 001,
I ran into this fun learning site ...

        http://www.kids-japan.com/

The main screen has a "Climb Mount Fuji" game you can play. If
you answer the question right, you get to climb higher. If your
answer is wrong, you run into Oni-wa !

It also has a nice chart of hiragana and katakana ... under the
"Learn Japanese" section ...

        http://www.kids-japan.com/hira-chart.htm


And it has a multimedia web page of many of the daily expressions
that make up "lesson one"

        http://www.kids-japan.com/express.htm

If your computer has a sound card, you can click and hear

        [ Ohayogozaimasu    ]
        [ Konnichiwa        ]
        [ Konbanwa          ]

but not

        [ Wakarimasen !     ]


Steve

P.S. Oni-wa, he's an "ogre", but I think he's a good ogre.
He's more like Yojimbo than like the Troll Who Lives Under
The Bridge ...

Steve








(Although I've not run
into Oni-wa, I imagine him to be more like the troll under the