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Wouldn't it be great to speak a foreign language? Japanese is an excellent choice! Not only is Japan the second-largest economy in the world, its culture is ancient and beautiful, and learning the basics of speaking Japanese is surprisingly simple!

Mirai Japanese uses a straightforward and effective instruction method to help you to understand how to speak Japanese in the shortest time possible. Try our language learning materials - podcasts and iPhone apps - now!

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Mirai Language Systems – “iStart Japanese!”

 

“iStart Japanese!” consists of the Prologue (Lesson 00) and Lessons 01-30. Details of the beginning lessons 0-10 are here on this website. Click on the links on the left-sidebar to access these Lessons’ podcasts and additional material, such as vocab lists and stroke order diagrams for the syllabaries – kana. The Prologue Lesson is below.

 

iStart Japanese! – Prologue (Lesson 00) Podcast

This is the Prologue Podcast to Mirai Japanese’s – iStart Japanese! The Prologue covers basic information about Mirai Language Systems’ methodology for Japanese, and covers some basics about the Japanese writing system.

This podcast is 8min 18sec long.
The narrators are Tom (English) and Takako (Japanese).
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Transcript of the Podcast

iStart Japanese - Lesson 00 (Prologue) - PDF TranscriptYou can see the full transcript of the podcast in PDF form by clicking here.

 

Vocabulary introduced in the Prologue

  • Chinese characters – kanji
  • Hello; Good Day – konnichi wa
  • Japanese syllabary (angular) – katakana
  • Japanese syllabary (curvilinear) – hiragana
  • Roman letters – rōmaji

 

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