http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/japanese/

They have stuff for Japanese and other languages. Their Japanese stuff is kind of mediocre though. I just listed it for completeness and the hilarious faces they use for Japanese people.

"A Touch of Japanese"

Haha, 15 phrases? That's more like an idea than a touch. Cripes.

Quote:Why Japanese has three different alphabets and how they are combined

Yaaa...

The kana counts as two different alphabets as much as Uppercase/Lowercase of straight and cursive counts as four different alphabets. We can even toss on morse and shorthand for two more.

Wow, English is so complicated, we have 6 different alphabets.

I was more appalled at the calling of kana/kanji "alphabets". It's a common mistake for a layman to make, but anyone trying to teach the language should know the difference. Even if you can stomach hiragana and katakana being called alphabets, kanji is fundamentally different from either of those. Even the vomit-inducing "hieroglyphics" would be more accurate.

I don't mind them being called alphabets. Even if it's not technically true I'm sure it's more easily understandable than "syllabaries"(sp?), or whatever the correct term is.