From: John Smith <noreply@...>
Date: 2002-07-21T13:22:52+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Learning Japanese


"John" <nojgoalbyspam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bci_8.5961$Qk6.569@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> Inspired to learn to read Japanese due to a lot of information on Ruby
being
> in Japanese, I bought a book recently (Read Japanese Today).  Its a great
> book, introducing the origin of the pictographs and how they relate to the
> current ones.
>
> Anyway, I wanted to know if there were good web sites for learning
Japanese.
> Specifically reading it.  A comprehensive list of pictographs, their
> meanings etc.  Maybe also a place where you can convert the pictograph to
> English and back?
>
> TIA,
>
> John.
>
> (I decided to ask this here in case other people in this group had a
similar
> desire).
>
>
>

I started to learn Japanese before I found out about Ruby. I actually am
reading a really good book called "Master the Basics: Japanese" it takes you
through basically the whole language structure.  It explains some english
basics behind it so it can make things easier by linking English concepts
the the equivalent concepts in Japanese. They also publish one for Spanish,
French, German, Russian, Italian, etc.

-John