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The good news is that more katakana loan words means less hard to read kanji
The bad news is that katakana is harder to read than kanji
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The fastest way to learn modern Japanese is to relearn English with Japanese pronunciation
yua uerukamu
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Short sample clip from lesson on vowel reduction and centralization in Japanese
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It’s easy to say sports in Japanese
basketball is basukettobōru
football is futtobōru
soccer is sakkā
tennis is tenisu
golf is gorufu
and baseball is yakyū wait what’s up with baseball
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People say traditional Japanese cultural is dying, but this simply isn’t true. Take shinobi (ninja) for example—most people say they ceased to exist hundreds of years ago, but every Japanese person becomes a ninja the second the NHK guy shows up
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If a foreigner speaks Japanese in a forest and no Japanese people are around to hear it, is the foreigner nihongo jōzu?
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Thinking about becoming a translator. Recently failed N4 but an old lady in the elevator said I was jōzu so
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The great thing about kanji is that they are are so intuitive. For the example, dentist is tooth-doctor, Tokyo is east-capital, and the United States is rice-country wait why is it rice country
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Useful trick for determining the pronunciation of certain Japanese first names.
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Japanese is easy
table is tēburu
fork is fōku
and glass is gurasu
Sometimes. Other times it’s garasu as in window glass. Stained glass window is the opposite though.
By the way for paper cup do you say koppu or kappu?
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Short clip from a recent lesson on the pronunciation of katakana loan words.
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#音声
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I got depressed by the kanji for depression and now I’m too depressed to try and write depression
#鬱
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When the seito becomes the sensei
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