Japanese

Introduction about the Language:

The Japanese language will seem very different at first from your native language, but it is not as hard to learn as many people think. It is quite a logically laid out language and once you learn basic reading skills it will be easy to pronounce any word you can read. Unlike English, for example, how a word is written in Japanese is how it is pronounced. For example, there are no ‘spelling bees’ in Japan because there is confusion in what characters to use to spell a word. How it sounds is how it is spelled. This may sound confusing, but if you learn hiragana it will very quickly make sense.

Japanese Language facts:

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