I remember being surprised when I took Italian in jr. high to find they don't have j, k, w, x, y. Except in foreign words, which seems to be how all those sneaky letters get in.
That's something I found really interesting about Japanese -- they have a different set of characters for foreign words. Each character is a syllable and words ge…
I remember being surprised when I took Italian in jr. high to find they don't have j, k, w, x, y. Except in foreign words, which seems to be how all those sneaky letters get in.
That's something I found really interesting about Japanese -- they have a different set of characters for foreign words. Each character is a syllable and words get sounded out ex: ha/i fa/i bi/di/o = hi-fi video. Languages are fascinating.
I remember being surprised when I took Italian in jr. high to find they don't have j, k, w, x, y. Except in foreign words, which seems to be how all those sneaky letters get in.
That's something I found really interesting about Japanese -- they have a different set of characters for foreign words. Each character is a syllable and words get sounded out ex: ha/i fa/i bi/di/o = hi-fi video. Languages are fascinating.
That is fascinating. And yet more examples of how we're all interconnected on this big blue marble.