28th July – 文月 Nearly 2 months has passed since I started studying Korean. For native Japanese speaker, it seems easier to study Korean rather than English or other languages, as Japanese and Korean have the same grammar and there are many words that have similar pronunciation with same meanings. Here are just a fewContinue reading “日本語と韓国語 (Nihongo to Kankokugo) – Japanese and Korean”
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オノマトペ -Onomatopoeia No. 3
21st July – 文月 オノマトペ (=Onomatopoeia) describes sounds, moves, conditions in words, especially in Japanese there are heaps オノマトペ exist used in everyday conversation. This blog previously has introduced about オノマトペ several times and this is going to be No. 3! Many Japanese use オノマトペ properly in the different occasions – adapting オノマトペ to explainContinue reading “オノマトペ -Onomatopoeia No. 3”
早口言葉 (Hayakuchi Kotoba) – Tongue twister
28th May -皐月 早口言葉 (Hayakuchi Kotoba) is the sentence to say quickly, the sentences have similar sounds or related sounds repeated several times, therefore those are hard to pronounce correctly. As well as tongue twister exists in English, so does in Japanese. Japanese 早口言葉 often have following sounds , which makes the sentence difficult toContinue reading “早口言葉 (Hayakuchi Kotoba) – Tongue twister”
オノマトペ onomatopoeia No. 1
4th March – 弥生 Making words from the things which does not have the actual word in order to express how the thing is – from nature sounds, feeling, situation and emotion into words Japanese has a lot onomatopoeia compared to other language. This is because Japanese does not have variation of verbs – ForContinue reading “オノマトペ onomatopoeia No. 1”
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