Interesting facts about the Japanese Language


	Interesting facts about the Japanese Language

chris49

4-12-2008 11:48 PM

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chris49 says:

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4-13-2008 6:41 AM

righthand

Novel great clip that makes you think.

Am I over simplifying in saying that the Japanese language is easy to speak but impossible to write?

4-13-2008 8:12 AM

skwirlinator

I can't imagine even trying to learn this.

4-13-2008 9:12 AM

spinmonkey

This is because one sound can have 20 - 30 meanings depending on the context.

4-14-2008 12:50 AM

chris49

true

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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">No verb conjugation!</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">No gender of nouns!</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">No articles (a, the)</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Number (singular and plural) not important and barely exists!</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Not hard to learn to pronounce as there are only 48 sounds consisting of 5 vowels and 11 consonants!</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Syntax or the word order of a sentence, excepting the final verb, is totally free!</LI>
</UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kt70.com/~jamesjpn/facts_about_Japanese.shtml"><B>Why then is Japanese considered difficult to learn?</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kt70.com/~jamesjpn/facts_about_Japanese.shtml"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The written language has 3 methods of writing: Thousands of Chinese characters called <I>Kanji</I> and 2 Japanese syllabaries of 48 characters each called <I>Hiragana</I> and <I>Katakana</I>. Japanese is therefore considered the most complex written language in the world. In order to get barely by, you need
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