Update: 10/19/02
Nevermind about the font crap. I will just make pictures of the Hiragana so you can just look at the picture and read the hiragana in them. I have added a full Hiragana chart. (Well nearly full it is missing one part, which I will add later.) And I have put up a new vocabulary list. With the word in Hiragana, then in romaji, then the english translation. It would be best, to learn the Hiragana and read the word in Hiragana. The romaji is just to help with the pronounciation.



Hiragana Chart



Notes

These are the different forms of Japanese writing and then the explanations of what they are written in, for example Hiragana is japanese writtin using the Japanes alphabet.

Hiragana - The Japanese Alphabet

Katakana - Foriegn Terms

Kanji - Japanese characters

Romaji - Romanized Characters (english)



Word list


Greetings (chart not yet completed)

	Ohayoo gozaimasu	Good morning (formal)
	Ohayoo	Good morning (informal)
	Konnichi wa	Good afternoon
	Konban wa	Good evening
	Ogenki desu ka	How are you?
	Ee, genki desu	(Yes) I am fine
Okagesama de, genki desu Ee, okagesama de,.... Ohisashiburi desu ne Shibaraku desu ne	Thanks to you, I'm fine (Yes,) thanks to you...(I'm fine) I haven't seen you for a long time I haven't seen you for a long time (informal)

Leave-taking

Shitsuree shimasu Ja (or Dewa), mata Ja (or Dewa) Sayo(o)nara Oyasuminasai

Goodbye (literally., Excuse me) See you later (literally., again) See you (very informal) Goodbye Good Night (informal)

I will have a much longer vocabulary list up....eventually. You have to be carefull as some words sound and are written very similar, but mean different things.

Well that is all I have for now, I will have more up later, and I will get a japanese font and figure some way to use it with my english keyboard then write the words in katakana and hiragana. As well as making prounounciation charts and alphabet charts.