Melbourne Aikikai Japanese Page

JAPANESE

This section of the website is devoted to helping the aspiring student with the pronucination of Japanese. The individual sound files can be quite large. Therefore this page serves as a index to a selection of Japanese words.

Just click on the title for the group of words you are interested in and a page with just those spoken words will be loaded. Loading them all on a single page could leave you sitting there for qute a while.

COUNTING
One Ichi	Two Ni	Three San	Four Shi
Five Go	Six Roku	Seven Shichi	Eight Hachi
Nine Ku	Ten Ju
The above are strictly for counting numbers. They are pronounced differently depending on what type of things are being counted.
BODY PARTS
Back Senaka	Chest Mune	Elbow Hiji	Eye Me
Face or Head Men	Fingers Yubi	Foot Ashi	Hand Te
Top or Front of the Head Shomen	Side of the Head Yokomen	Hip Koshi	Mouth Kuchi
Neck Kubi	Edge of the Palm to Use Tekatana	Shoulder Kata	Wrist Tekubi
Wrist, Forearm Kote
The above are as they are used in Aikido.