1	日本語のメールを書きましょう Welcome to the lesson “How to write a Japanese E-mail on your browser”. You can fluently read and write ひらがな, かたかな and now it’s time to learn how to type them on the computer!
2	Web sites in Japanese You may have been surprised to see 日本語 in this slide show. In this computer, Global IME 5.02 is installed and you may read and write Japanese whenever you open the web sites allowing Japanese language. Now, right-click here and click “open in new window”. right-click means clicking the right part of your mouse.
3	Do You See…? Do you see all the scripts in Japanese? This is Yahoo!Kids site of Japan. If the script is messed up, go to View at the upper-left taskbar, then Encoding and click Japanese Auto-Select.
4	Let’s have a Hotmail account! Before searching any Japanese site, we need to learn how to type Japanese. Let’s open a new account at Hotmail site, so that you can exercise typing in Japanese on the Internet Explorer. Right-click here and click Open a new window.
5	Sign up for a new account Go to sign up. You need to input all the 14 items of information in English. Choose English as language. The language you chose is for menu and hotmail instructions, and you still may write Japanese after signing up. When finished, click sign up.
6	Sign up successful!?? Do not forget to note your address (your sign-in name) and password. You will need them to log into your account. You can go back to your account anytime, by going to http://hotmail.com/ and signing up. Click continue at Hotmail.
7	Agreement and Junk mails TERMS OF USE and NOTICES to use your Hotmail account. Scroll down and click I accept. Next Page is Web courier Free subscriptions. Don’t click anything, unless you are interested in receiving all the junk mails. Scroll down and click Continue.
8	Your account is there! Congratulation! Your are now in your own Hotmail account page. You may write and receive mails by using your mail address. The first mail you receive is from Hotmail staff and the subject is Welcome Hotmail new users! You may read it later, but now, click Compose for making your mail.
9	Composing a mail -1 To – The mail address that you need to send this message. Cc – If you want to send a copy of this message to someone else’s mail address. Bcc – If you want to send a copy of this message to someone else, without showing his/her address to the original receiver, which you put at “To”.
10	Composing a mail -2 You just move your cursor to each box to input the word. The last box is where you have to write your message. Now, move your cursor to the upper-left corner of the message box. Finally, we try to write something in Japanese!
11	Starting Global IME Look at the lower-right corner of your Windows taskbar. Do you see the square button EN? Click it, and then another window, showing English and Japanese, appears. Click Japanese.　EN at the taskbar is now JA. At the same time, a small window pops up, showing you IME taskbar. The right button is to choose different input modes. It now shows a wide Ａ. Click it and choose 全角ひらがな.
12	Input mode to ひらがな The Ａ is changed to show あ, which means that the input mode is ひらがな. You may now write ひらがな by typing ローマじ on your keyboard. Go back to the message box at Hotmail site. First, type aiueo on your keyboard. Underlined あいうえお appears in the message box. Hit Enter key on your keyboard. The underline disappears, and your あいうえお is configured there.
13	Converting ひらがな to かたかな -1 First, hit Space key to make a space after あいうえお. You remember how to write your name in かたかな. If your name is Heather, it must be ヘザー. You type h, e, z, a, and hit the key at the right of number 0 to make a long horizontal line. へざー appears on the display. While it still has an underline, hit F7 key. It’s converted to ヘザー. Hit Enter key to configure.
14	Converting ひらがな to かたかな -2 F7 key converts any underlined word to かたかな. Typing small ひらがな like きゃ、きゅ、りゅ、りゃ, in ローマじ, you need to put y between these. Example: kya, kyu, ryu, rya. しゃ、しゅ、しょ are to be typed like sha, shu, sho. If you still have problem, ask your せんせい to help you.
15	Writing a message in 日本語 -1 Now, delete what you’ve written, by hitting Back space key one at a time. Write　こんにちは、せんせい。 The procedure must be sennsei and then hit the key of comma, for “、”. Hit Enter key, to configure. (ん is “nn” on your keyboard) Then, konnnichiha. Hit the key of dot for “。”. And then, Hit Enter key again to delete underline. Got it right?
16	Writing a message in 日本語 -2 Write わたしは（or ぼくは）xxxxxxx (your name in かたかな) です。 Write このメールは、テストです。メールmeans “E-mail” in Japanese. Write さようなら。 Got it? If not, ask せんせい for help.
17	Sending an E-mail to 先生 Now, you write せんせいのメールアドレス in “To”. And your Hotmail アドレス in “Cc”, so that you get a copy of your mail. Or, check the box of Copy message to sent folder, so that you can save your mail in the folder called “Sent”. Otherwise, you don’t see the mails you’ve sent. Click Send. Your mail was sent to せんせい!
18	よくできました！ Ask せんせい, if she/he got your E-mail. Go to “Inbox” and check if a copy of the mail has arrived in it. Click it, then you’ll see a copy of your mail just sent to せんせい. Close it. Now, the important part. If you finish your work at Hotmail site, you MUST sign out. Scroll down and find the icon named Passport Sign Out. You must click it, whenever you want to quit this site.
19	Remarks You also have a help file (the right button like a “book”) in the popup window of IME. Go to English Manual. When you want to write in English, you have to change the icon JA back to EN. Do not play with underlined words, by converting them to かんじ. There are usually hundreds of suggestions, and if you don’t know the correct かんじ, you will end up writing words that are completely out of context.
20	Conclusion The first lesson of Japanese computing is over. Your will get an E-mail from せんせい to confirm that your mail successfully reached her/him. Check your Hotmail site tomorrow to see that reply on your account. さようなら！