japan for kids

What kind of language is Japanese? In this section you can take Japanese lessons and try speaking the language. You can also learn the characters used to write Japanese. Why not do the lessons with a friend and try speaking Japanese to each other?


Learn basic phrases that people use everyday. You can practice them yourself after hearing how they're pronounced.

Lesson 1:

Japanese Greetings and Writing System

Lesson 2:

Meeting New Friends

Lesson 3:

What Language Do You Understand?

Lesson 4:

Where Did You Come from?

Lesson 5:

When Is Your Birthday?

Lesson 6:

What Do You Like?

Lesson 7:

Is This an Interesting Book?

Lesson 8:

Introducing My Family

In Lessons 1 to 7 we learned to say a lot of things in Japanese. Let's look back at what we have covered so far.

• In Lesson 1, we learned simple greetings like:
  
  
• In Lesson 2, we looked at ways to introduce ourselves to other people:
  
  
• In Lesson 3, we talked about some verbs and how to use them in the present tense:
  
  
• In Lesson 4, we learned how to put those verbs into the past tense:
  
  
• In Lesson 5, we found out how to ask and answer some questions:
  
  
• In Lesson 6, the questions got tougher as we asked some in the past tense:
  
  
• And in Lesson 7, we learned how to add adjectives to our sentences:
  
  

Today, in Lesson 8, we'll be learning how to talk about all the members of our families. If you learn all eight lessons well, you'll be able to have some pretty good conversations in Japanese!

	How do you do?
	I am Lucy Kent.
	I understand a little Japanese.
	I came from Canada.
	I am 13 years old.
	I like soccer and tennis
	Tennis is very fun.
	There are four people in my family