Blue Sea Tips

Nihongo Support

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Blue Sea Tip

A Blue Sea Tip is a suggested practice that may help a person to make progress in the learning of Nihongo (the Japanese language). The intended audience is people who are learning Nihongo as a second language.

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List of Blue Sea Tips

Each following link goes to a page that offers a tip that may help learners to become more proficient at Nihongo (the Japanese language).

Types of tips are “Material”, “Conceptual”, “Grammar”, and “Kanji”.

The star rating is decided by Blue Sea Press based on the factors such as helpfulness for a Nihongo second language learner and ease of execution.

Material

Conceptual

Grammar

Kanji

Learning Kanji

The reader may already be familiar with kanji. If so, that is a great advantage. However, many people learning Japanese as a second language will find kanji to be a hurdle.

Blue Sea Press offers “Kanji Learning Today” as an excellent system for learning kanji.

The system has two modes, a paper workbook and an online interface. The two modes complement each other, presenting the kanji in the same sequence while providing a slightly different learning experience.

See Kanji Learning Today for more information.

 

Accent

Another hurdle in the Japanese language is proper pronunciation.

Most dictionaries do not show accent marks for their word entries. Furthermore, the accent explanations many in textbooks are difficult to apply.

Blue Sea Press offers “Japanese Accent: Penult Standard” as a system for easily and comprehensively understanding accent.

See Japanese Accent for additional information.

 

Wordbooks

A Blue Sea Wordbook provides vocabulary for a book written in Japanese. It lists the vocabulary entries in an “ordered glossary” format, giving definitions in word-after-word order for the entire original Japanese book.

The wordbook is an eBook (epub) that can be opened with a reader app.

The user must buy the corresponding original Japanese book separately.

The wordbook allows the reader, who may be a second-language learner of the language, to read the Japanese book more easily. Rather than spending time consulting a dictionary for each unfamiliar word, the reader can simply glance at the wordbook.

See Blue Sea Wordbooks for additional information.

 

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