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The Everything Japanese Guide

Intermediate Japanese - Free Online Course

Learning Japanese through the News is an online course for students have completed at least one year of Japanese. The idea behind the course is simple: we will be examining excerpts from news articles. Complete translations are not given, but there are extensive vocabulary notes.

This course will hopefully be helpful for those of you who are getting up to speed reading real Japanese, but occasionally need a hint regarding the reading or meaning of a word. This course is a growing work in progress, so stop back often.

• The Bitter Fifteen-year Struggle

• To Further Increase Trade and Investment

• New Hotel Accommodations Going Up in Beijing

• A Rise in the U.S. Stock Market

• Toyota Ramping Up Production in China

• Changes in Newspaper Reading Habits in the United States

• The Continued Slide of the Nikkei Average

• Drivers Licenses in the EU

• The World's 100 Sexiest Women

• Environmental Destruction in the Amazon