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> Since I am of the opinion that I must not leave this world
> without learning
> to speak Japanese with relative fluency, I decided this evening
> to initiate
> this major quest of mine in the field of language learning.
>
> I surfed around looking for some site on the apprehension of this most
> harmonious-sounding of human speech forms... Well, as you may have
> encountered, there is a big jungle out there of stupid material
> saying "Learn X language in X steps and just X months/weeks/days/hours!!!
> GUARANTEED!!!" Oh my.
>
> I prayed for some text with IPA notations and technical explanations of
> grammatic juice... And lo, I miraculously found this wonderful
> site written
> by someone who might as well be a conlanger; he even prefers to use
> phonemic notations and enjoys explaining irregularities in a diachronic
> context (!):
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>
http://www.findtutorials.com/Tutorials/Japanese/takasugi/index.html
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> Anyway... I just wanted to point this site out to any of you who may also
> have an unsatisfied interest in the Japanese language :)
>
> Regards,
> Óskar