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Started by Legend, Dec 20, 2016, 06:31 AM

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the-pi-guy

Japanese is a very cool language.  

They started out with a spoken language with no writing system.  They borrowed a lot of Chinese characters.  Kanji.  
From these they developed their own writing systema. Katakana which they use to write foreign words that kind of thing.  And Hiragana which they use to write Japanese words.  
Hiragana and Katakana have 46 characters, which all have one specific sound.  Kanji sounds very on context.  And some words use the same kanji for very different sounds.  
Sunday is nichiyoubi.  The kanji for bi and the kanji for nichi are the same in this context.  

Japanese is also SOV sentence structure.  
In English. We might day "Mike threw ball"
In Japanese, instead it'd be "Mike ball threw"  
I study Japanese.  
Becomes :
I Japanese study.