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Here is a ramen  menu, for those who don`t know what ramen is it is basically noodles in a soup/stock.  When I first came to Japan I didn`t particularly like it, but now I love it.  Starting with the column on the left; 焼餃子　 Reading; やき・ぎょう・ざ Meaning:Fried (grilled) dumplings (Yaki Gyoza) 鶏唐揚 Reading: とり・から・あげ Meaning: (Deep) Fried chicken (Karaage) とろ肉 Reading: とろにく Meaning: Fatty pork (Toroniku) キムチ Reading: きむち Meaning: Korean spicy pickled cabbage (Kimuchi) キムチ焼豚盛合せ Reading: きむちやき・ぶた・もり・あわせ Meaning: Sautéed pork and kimuchi (Kimuchi yakibuta moriawase) とろ肉丼 Reading:とろにくどん Meaning: Fatty pork on rice (toronikudon) チャーシュー丼 Reading: ちゃあしゅうどん Meaning: Roasted pork fillet on rice (Chaashuudon) チャーマヨオニギリ （チャーシュー、マヨネーズ） Reading: ちゃあまよおにぎり （ちゃあしゅう、まよねえず） Meaning: Roasted pork fillet and mayonnaise riceball  ライス Reading:　らいす Meaning:　Rice (raisu) ...

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Even I am forgetting which signs I have or haven`t done, so here you (and me!) will hopefully be able to find any post quickly.... Recommended Japanese Resources Recommended Japanese Resources 3 (Kodansha) Kanji Learners Course KLC- March 15, 2018 Recommended Japanese Resources 2 https://nhkeasier.com - March 06, 2018 Recommended Japanese Resources 1 A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar - March 05, 2018 Manga Review Meitantei Conan Beginners Manga 2 (case closed) Manga review Yotsubato! よつばと！ Beginners Manga 1 Japanese Medical Signs Japanese Medical Signs 5　整形外科 June 4, 2018 Japanese Medical Signs 4 眼科 - May 09, 2018 Japanese Medical signs 3 歯科医院 - March 09, 2018 Japanese Medical Signs 2　薬局 - March 02, 2018 Japanese Medical Signs 1 内科 Japanese Doors Elevator kanji 2 Elevator Kanji - December 25, 2017 Japanese Doors 1 Japanese Street Kanji Street Signs 5 工事中 - March 20, 2018 Street signs 4 Street signs 3 Street Signs 2 Street Signs 1 Some o...

Fish Kanji Restaurant signs 1 I found this sign was in a ramen restaurant.  I will translate the menu for my next post... maybe! Starting with the yellow part at the top: ポットを傾けすぎると「ふた」がはずれて危険です。 Reading: ぽっとをかたむけすぎると「ふた」がはずれてき・けんです Meaning: If you tilt the pot (jug) too far there is a danger that the lid will come off. (potto wo katamuke sugiru to "futa" ga hazurete kiken desu.) And now for the red part: お手数ですが。。。「ふた」を押さえながら注いでください。　すみません。 reading: おて・すうですが。。。「ふた」をおさえながらそそいでください。　すみません。 Meaning: I`m sorry it`s a bother but...Please hold the lid as you pour.  Sorry.  (Otesuu desu ga... "futa"wo osaenagara sosoide kudasai.  Sumimasen.) Please note the kanji 注　it is used first in 注意　ちゅう・い　caution (chuui) and then in 注ぐ　そそぐ　to pour (sosogu). Fish Kanji Restaurant signs 1 Kanjisigns4U Directory Page 2018  If you liked this post please tell your friends, leave comments, subscribe and share to facebook, pinterest, twitter etc...  It...

工事中 Reading: こう・じ・ちゅう Meaning: Under Construction (koujichuu) 工 craft, construction コウ、ク、グ　(kou, ku, gu) grade: 2 frequency: 299 JLPT level: 4 工場　factory こう・じょう　(koujou) 大工　carpenter　だい・く　(daiku) 事 matter, thing, fact ジ、ズ、こと、つか（える）（ji, zu, koto,tsuka(eru)) grade: 3 frequency: 18 JLPT level: 4 仕事　work, job し・ごと　(shigoto) 事件　event, incident じ・けん　(jiken) 中 in, inside, middle チュウ, なか、うち、あた（る) (chu, naka,uchi,ata(ru))  grade: 1 frequency: 11 JLPT level: 5 中国　China ちゅう・ごく (Chugoku) 中央　Center ちゅう・おう　(chuuou) Kanjisigns4U Directory Page 2018  If you liked this post please tell your friends, leave comments, subscribe and share to facebook, pinterest, twitter etc...  It will help me to continue produc ing interesting free material.  Please feel free to use any of the photos on this site  only for non commercial use , as long as you link back to this site. Thank you

For Toilet Signs Part 1 click here For Toilet Signs Part 2 click here There are a lot of kanji here so I will just translate the vocabulary and won`t go into detail about the characters for this one. ご注意 Reading: ごちゅう・い Meaning: Warning (Gochuui) 便器 Reading: べん・き Meaning: Toilet, urinal (Benki) 携帯電話等 Reading: けい・たい・でん・わ・など Meaning:　Cell phones etc. 落とさないように Reading: お・とさないように Meaning: Be careful not to drop (Otosanaiyouni) 十分 Reading: じゅう・ぶん Meaning: Enough, plenty (Juubun) ご注意 Reading: ごちゅう・い Meaning: Warning (Gochuui) Rough translation: Warning, please take adequate care to ensure you do not drop cell phones etc down the toilet. For Toilet Signs Part 1 click here For Toilet Signs Part 2 click here Kanjisigns4U Directory Page 2018  If you liked this post please tell your friends, leave comments, subscribe and share to facebook, pinterest, twitter etc...  It will help me to continue produc ing interesting free materia...

For  Recommended Japanese Resources 1 Click here For  Recommended Japanese Resources 2 Click here For many years the study of kanji has been dominated by one book, Remembering the Kanji  (RTK) by James W. Heisig.  Personally I actually used a different book called a guide to remembering Japanese Characters by Kenneth G. Henshall.  However there is now a serious competitor to both of these books and it is The Kodansha Kanji Learners Course (KLC) by Andrew Scott Conning. This year I switched away from Henshall  to KLC and I am very happy that I did. It teaches 2300 kanji, which is basically the Joyo (standard use) Kanji plus another couple of hundred common kanji.  Which I personally think is about the right number of characters you need to really be comfortable reading Japanese.  Its strongest point I think is the very logical order that he introduces kanji in, both the kanji and the example vocabulary build on each...

For Japanese Medical Signs part 1 click here For Japanese Medical Signs part 2 click here We have four characters here that spell two words, the first word is; 歯科 reading; し・か meaning; dentistry (shika) (Quick note; a dentist (person) is a 歯医者　　はいしゃ　(haisha). 歯  tooth, cog  シ、よわい、は (shi, yowai, ha) grade: 3 frequency:1106 JLPT level: 3 歯　tooth は　(ha) 虫歯　cavity, tooth decay むし・ば、(mushiba) 科　department, section ヵ　(ka) grade: 2 frequency: 531 JLPT level: 3 科学　science か・がく　(kagaku) 教科　subject, curriculum きょう・か　(kyouka) The second word is; 医院 reading; い・いん meaning; doctors office, surgery, clinic (iin) 医　doctor, medicine イ, い（やす）、くすり　(i, i(yasu), kursuri) grade: 3 frequency: 437 JLPT level: 4 医療　medical care い・りょう (iryou) 獣医　veterinarian じゅう・い　(juui) 院　institution いん　(in) grade: 3 frequency: 150 JLPT level: 4 病院　hospital びょう・いん　(byouin) 入院　hospitalization にゅう・いん　(nyuuin) For Japanese Medical Signs part 1 click here ...

I found out about a new website yesterday   https://nhkeasier.com  it has the news from NHK Easy (another great resource) but in a much easier to read, streamlined format. Instead of having furigana there the whole time there are no furigana until you hover your mouse above a character, then it appears.  This makes it much more challenging and stops you subconsciously only reading hiragana. Personally, I do all of my reading in Japanese on my commute to work and the NHK easy website doesn`t work well at all on my phones screen.  This morning I read  https://nhkeasier.com  and the text fitted the screen beautifully I casually read three articles in one short train ride. This site is now going to be part of my morning routine, as soon as I have got through my anki cards (another fantastic resource) I`m going to NHK easier. Please tell me what you think about NHK Easier, NHK Easy, Anki and any other resources in the comments below. For Recomm...

For toilet signs part 1 click here For Toilet Signs Part 3 click here Here is the polite way to write toilet.  It is usually just written トイレ (toire) in katakana but if we want to be more polite we say "hand washing place," in the same way that we use the term "bathroom" in English. お手洗い Reading; おて・あらい Meaning; Toilet (hand washing place) (otearai) 手　hand シュ、ズ、て　(shu, zu, te) grade; 1 frequency; 60 JLPT level; 5 相手　companion, partner, opponent あいて　(aite) 手紙　letter てがみ　(tegami) 洗　wash, inquire into セン、あら（う）(sen, ara(u)) grade; 6 frequency 1168 JLPT level; 4 洗う　to wash あらう　(arau) 洗濯機　washing machine せんたくき　(sentakuki) For Toilet Signs Part 1 click here                              For Toilet Signs Part 3 click here                             Kanjisigns4U Directory Page 2018  If you liked t...

(Firstly sorry about the low quality photos, I will try to update them at some stage.) I chose this as my first textbook review for a reason, it really is indispensable to anybody learning Japanese, you really will use it regularly, either for reference of difficult grammar points or for fantastic example sentences.  I have personally owned this book for about fifteen years and still periodically go through it and review my basic grammar. Its format is that of a dictionary and the only negative comment I could make that it is quite dry, but it is just packed with essential information on every page.  It covers pretty much everything a beginner to intermediate student needs to know, in a couple of hundred grammar points including verbs, prepositions, adverbs etc.. (Note, it is a dictionary not a textbook so there are no exercises.) Each entry has a huge amount of information; It has the grammar point, English definition, grammatical usage, related expressions ...

Click here for For Japanese Medical Signs 1  After visiting the 内科 　you will probably visit here. 薬局 Reading: やっきょく　 Meaning: Pharmacy (Yakyoku) 薬　Medicine, Chemical　ヤク、くすり (Yaku, Kusuri) grade: 3 frequency: 702 JLP levelT: 4 薬　medicine くすり　（kusuri) 薬品　medicine, chemicals やくひん　(yakuhin) 局　キョク、　つぼね　bureau, board, office, affair grade: 3 frequency: 286 JLPT level: 3 郵便局　post office ゆうびんきょく　(yuubinkyoku) 入国管理局　immigration office にゅうきょくかんりきょく　（nyuukokukanrikyoku) Kanjisigns4U Directory Page 2018  If you liked this post please tell your friends, leave comments, subscribe and share to facebook, pinterest, twitter etc...  It will help me to continue produc ing interesting free material.  Please feel free to use any of the photos on this site  only for non commercial use , as long as you link back to this site. ありがとう！

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So here we have two more very common Kanji: 内科 Reading; ない・か Meaning; (Department of) internal medicine（naika) In Japan people don`t usually go to a G.P. or family doctor, they go directly to a specialist or a hospital, if you have an internal problem that is non surgical, like a cold, you will usually go to a Naika. 内　inside ナイ、ダイ、うち　(nai, dai, uchi) grade: 2 frequency: 44 JLPT level: 3 以内　within, inside of いない (inai) 案内　information, guidance あんない　(annai) 科　department, section ヵ　(ka) grade: 2 frequency: 531 JLPT level: 3 科学　science かがく　(kagaku) 教科　subject, curriculum きょうか　(kyouka) For medical signs part 2 click here Kanjisigns4U Directory Page 2018  If you liked this post please tell your friends, leave comments, subscribe and share to facebook, pinterest, twitter etc...  It will help me to continue produc ing interesting free material.  Please feel free to use any of the photos on this site  only for non commercial use , as l...