Thursday, November 1, 2007

Japanese - Know more!

"Watashi wa lingo wo tabemasu."

Watashi --> (I)
lingo --> (Apple)
tabemasu --> (Eat)

What is a particle?
“wa” indicates subject
“wo” indicates object

# Hiragana – Ordinary syllabic script
# Katakana – Words loaned from foreign languages and names
# Kanji – Chinese Characters

Pronunciation
* Accent
-- High and low pitches (vs. strong and weak accents)

* Vowels
-- Jap has only 5 vowels: a, i, u, e, o

* Consonants
-- Roughly close to English

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