Learning Japanese
Konnichiwa!
While I might still be in sunny Ohio, I'm thinking about the steps I need to take to effectively learn the language that is Japanese. I hear it is difficult, or something.
10 things I have learnt so far:
-- デバシッシュ・バックシ
While I might still be in sunny Ohio, I'm thinking about the steps I need to take to effectively learn the language that is Japanese. I hear it is difficult, or something.
10 things I have learnt so far:
- there are three systems of writing (hiragana, katakana, and kanji)
- Japanese pronunciation is pretty straighforward, like Spanish
- there are 46 hiragana characters and 46 equivalent katakana characters
- hirigana is used to write "particles" (grammatical artifacts) and some words
- katakana is used to represent loan words (from English and other languages)
- kanji are the building blocks of the written language -- complex characters that convey an idea/concept (they are used for most place names, nouns, adjectives, and verb stems)
- there are 1945 kanji in general usage (Joyo kanji), as specified by the Japanese government. you can't read modern Japanese without knowing 95% of these.
- there is no such thing as gender or number when it comes to nouns
- my name in katakana is デバシッシュ・バックシ, which is de-ba-shi-sshu・ba-kku-shi
- 1-10: ichi, ni, san, shi, go, roku, shichi, hachi, kyu, ju
-- デバシッシュ・バックシ
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