This post is for all of you who want to learn Japanese or who are starting to study Japanese.
1.- Learn Hiragana and Katakana
The first step to learn Japanese is to learn the syllabaries Katakana and Hiragana. You can start learning Japanese without knowing Hiragana and Katakana but I would never recommend it. What would you [...]
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Found in a Joi’s twitt.
Some other examples of japanglish or engrish:
There are many of these translations in Japan, China and Asia in general. I think it’s normal to make mistakes and learn from them, I’m making lots of them right now. But for official and public stuff they should do it perfect, I would at [...]
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I was thinking that “in the red” (English), “赤字 - red characters” (Chinese and Japanese) and “números rojos - red numbers” (Spanish); are all similar expressions which have “red” in common and they are all referred to the same concept: budget deficit. It’s interesting ¿Why most of the cultures associate the red color with negative [...]
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Every year Japanese choose a kanji character that represents the society feeling of the year that ends. The most voted character this year was 偽 (gi, nise), it means “falsehood, lie, deceive, pretend”.
The bit internal problem in Japan this year was the loss of more than 50 million records from the [...]
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I’ve been some years learning Japanese, during the learning process I’m using many tools, tutorials, resources I found on the net. In this post I will list which I consider the best bookmarks everyone should know if you are in the process of learning Japanese.
Grammar:
Guidetojapanese: the best web I know to learn the basic Japanese [...]
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There are many places where in the old times shells were used as currency. India and China used them during thousands of years and their shell-coins gradually entered the Japanese islands. It is interesting that even nowadays there is a Japanese and Chinese character that means “shell” but if you add strokes to it the [...]
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