In Japanese, we have 3 different kinds of characters in Japanese: ひらがな：Hiragana, カタカナ： Katakana, and 漢字：Kanji. You can read about it here. Using kanji is very important for Japanese people because it represents both sounds and meanings. If you write whole sentence in hiragana or katakana, it’ll take us a … Continue reading
If you just want to be able to speak Japanese, you might not need to memorize the Japanese writing system. However, when you start understanding Japanese, you will realize that you need to learn the Japanese writing system to read. If you are thinking to learn Japanese now, I think it will be better for … Continue reading
Hi guys! Today, I want to tell you about the Japanese writing system. We have 3 different kinds of characters in Japanese: ひらがな：Hiragana, カタカナ： Katakana, and 漢字：Kanji. We have 46 basic hiragana syllables. Hiragana and katakana represents the sounds, so it’s like the Japanese alphabet. A or B by itself doesn’t mean anything, right? あ … Continue reading
You can read more about this here. kanji to English http://dir.kotoba.jp/subj.cgi?fsz=2&k=yomi http://jisho.org/ http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?9T http://translation.babylon.com/Japanese/to-English/ Japanese Kanji Dictionary http://www.saiga-jp.com/kanji_dictionary.html Japanese Radicals Reading http://memorize.com/japanese-radicals-reading http://kanjidict.com/demo/radicals.html Continue reading
Have you ever heard ギャル文字：Gyaru-moji? It’s a style of texting young girls (like early twenties) made up. What sort of image do you have about Japanese girls? Modest, kind, and quiet? That sounds like an outdated idea. Nowadays, girls are more energetic and active and exciting. Especially those girls that we Japanese call “gyaru” might have … Continue reading
Hello everyone! How are you doing? There has been some bad stomach virus going around. When you are dealing with so much stress, your immune system might not be able to work well and might be easily infected by a virus. Please be careful! 気をつけてくださいね！(Ki o tsukete kudasai ne!) Polite form ‐ Please take care! There is something … Continue reading
みなさん、こんばんは！今日は、日本人の大好きな｢略語｣について話します。 Minasan, konbanwa! Kyoo wa, nihon-jin no daisuki na “Ryakugo” nitsuite hanasimasu。 Good evening everyone! Today, I’m gonna talk about our favorite way of talking: “abbreviations.” . An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or phrase. I have seen many acronyms in English, such as “WWF – WorldWildlife Fund,” “PETA – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,” “FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation,” “LAPD – THELOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT,” “OMG ‐ Oh, My God!,” and “USA – The United States of America.” Although we have acronyms, we don’t use them very often … Continue reading
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