Are you starting to learn Japanese? Are you wondering whether you should learn with romaji (Roman characters) to help simplify getting started? Don't do it, you fool. Here's why.
I just got an invite to a press event for #Japans "Initiatives on #Women, Peace and Security" and women's participation in global issues and sustainable peace.
Sounds great, no? Except for one thing. The lead speaker and moderator...both middle-aged #Japanese#men. 🙄
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Japan has unveiled a new vision for developing its next-generation in-house passenger jet. After delays and a troubled setback last year when a privately-led venture was discontinued, the new project marks a nationwide effort spearheaded by both the public and private sectors.
This cutting-edge aircraft aims to incorporate “new environmental technologies” like hydrogen fuel or hybrid-electric propulsion systems.
If someone calls you a ビッチ in Japanese, you may feel insulted. But are you being insulted for the right reason? Here's how some common "false friends" between English and Japanese may force you to re-learn your own language.
It’s not as trendy as it used to be. But the Japanese word “pien” – represented visually as the “pleading face emoji” (🥺) – has secured its place in Japanese slang. But where did it come from?
That moment when you're learning #Japanese, and you wonder "How to say 'United States' in Japanese?", and someone answers "アメリカ". Son of a b*tch, I didn't wonder how to say #America, I wondered how to say #UnitedStates :ablobcatgooglymlemjumping: 🤡
In Japan, we call this “Hotchkiss”😊
The first stapler imported to Japan was made by this company 😉
My wife and I were talking about household items that we have been using for a long time on a regular basis. I got a 45 years old toolkit and 40 years old nail clipper 😉 But she has been using this Hotchkiss for 40 years 😊
If you go to Japan, you can learn hiragana & katakana.
Lots of people start with hiragana then are being too lazy to learn the katakana. But I recommand to start with katakana because it's used for English word.
So if you can read katakana you are literally reading English!
For example here the character are "ka-fe-ra-te" => "café latté"
Some words are sometimes in French (ka-fe-ho-cho-ko-ra)
Just finished reading volume 25 of Jujutsu Kaisen in Japanese! Now I have to decide if I want to wait for the next volume to release or start reading chapter by chapter until I catch up to Shounen Jump
Like with all Jujutsu Kaisen volumes I've read in Japanese, the typical Shounen battle manga power/ability discussion was very difficult to follow, but the battles themselves are easier to understand.
I'm still learning Japanese vocabulary on the side. Every so often I'm excited to realise I can figure out the kanji for words I already knew. For example, I just now realised that "dojo" → dō jō → 道 場 → "way place", i.e. the place where you study the Way (whichever dō that is — kendo, judo, etc).
Another fun one is "daimyo", who are your old-timey samurai clan chieftains. I always used to mispronounce this as "diam-yo", but it's actually dai-myō → 大名 → "big name"!
Everyone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed, says professor (www.theguardian.com)
Sato will become the only option by 2531, suggests modelling as part of campaign to overturn outdated law requiring spouses to have same surname