.: Nihongo Nōryoku Shiken : 日本語能力試験 :.

I want to do the Nihongo Nōryoku Shiken, it's a test that certify proficiency in Japanese of non-native speakers. I want it! Well, in this site I found exemples of this exam: http://www.jlpt.jp/e/index.html

I tried the N5 and I guess, I'm not so bad in Japanese than I think. I still knowing somethings about it.

.: Kanji : 漢字 :.

Well, I was thinking about “Kanjis”, there is a long time that I don’t study it, so I will try to do a review about it. Just to remind, the Japanese writing system uses three main scripts: Kanjis, Hiragana and Katakana. The Kanjis was “imported” from China and the Japanese got about 50.000 Kanjis. Fortunately, “The Japanese Ministry of Education designated 1,945 characters as Jooyoo Kanji, which are the most frequently used characters. It would be very helpful to learn all Jooyoo Kanji, but the basic 1,000 characters are sufficient to read about 90% of the kanji used in a newspaper (about 60% with 500 characters).” (source: http://japanese.about.com/library/blqow27.htm)

Ok, Let’s go, I will try to study 12 Kanjis each time I post a kanji study.

 I will follow the book “Shin Nihongo no Kiso”.

山 : やま : Yama

川 : かわ : Kawa

日: にち : Nichi

月 : がつ : Gatsu

田 : でん : Den

木 : ぼく : Boku

口 : くち : Kuchi

目 : もく : Moku

耳 : みみ: Mimi

人 : ひと : Hito

子 : こ : Ko

女 : おんな : Onna

Those kanjis are very simple, so I won't study they today, maybe next time.

Jikoshoukai: 自己紹介

Jikoshoukai is one of the first things you need to know how to do in Japan. So, let's see my Jiko shoukai. はじめまして。 僕の名前は首藤ギリェルメです。僕は会計のUSPの学校生です。 僕はいつかに日本へ行っきたいです。 どうぞ よろしく おねがい します。 This Jikoshoukai is very simple, I will do another one day.

The Beginning

I will use this blog to try to improve my Japanese Skills. I Already studied japanese for about 5 years, but nowadays I can't speak japanese, so I decided to create this blog. For the first post I will show some sites that I usually use to learn Japanese:

1st. Erin's Challenge This site teach Japanese by history of a girl called Erin, a foreign student in Japan. There are a lot of exercises and lessons.

2nd. Denshi Jisho This is the jisho ( Dictionary in Japanese), this site will be very usefully to improve my Japanese skills.

3rd. Free Japanese Lessons Actually I never used this site, but I guess it is good.

4rd. Nippo Brasil This is a Brazilian newspaper that have Japanese lessons, it will be very usefully too. Well, that is all for today.