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Entries for December, 2006

Japanese Language, a brief introduction

Unlike english and european and many eastern languages which have a character set of 26 or 50, Japanese Language has more than 2000 characters , which can be divided in 3 subsystems, Katakana, Hirangana and Kanji. The latter is again is derivate of Chinese writing system. However Chinese does not have katakana

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About this site thisisjapan.net

This site is nothing more than my opinionated views and understanding of Japanese culture. I write thisisjapan.net to satisfy my urge to express myself in lonely country like Japan. I intended to write about Japanese Life in General, I also intend to teach Japanese Language with emphasis on Technical Japanese for IT and I also […]

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Japanese Langauge is easy ..?

Is Japanese Language easy, tough, difficult, impossible?. What does it take exactly to master Japanese Language. In how many days can you master Japanese Language. Is Katakana more important than Hiragana. Do you feel kanjis is like alien signs.

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