May 15, 2009 · What is Japanese? Japanese is the national language of Japan and its people. According to Ethnologue, Japanese is the 9th largest language in the world by number of speakers …

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Aug 13, 2019 · That's the case in Japanese: the articles "the" and "a" do not exist. In order for you to think about a sentence in those terms, you would have to deduce the article from context. I found a …

Sep 1, 2024 · Not many Japanese people are consciously aware of this convention, but the × would be considerably more intuitive and easier to understand than the dagger sign. However, even if you use …

Feb 12, 2024 · So I stumbled over the Japanese word メロメロ (mero mero) wich is often translated as being in love. I was wondering if it is related to the english xoxo (hugs and kisses) or is this just a …

Aug 16, 2016 · In English, we just have one word for the conjunction and which works just fine for many categories, but in Japanese, there are separate words: と joins nouns together in a closed list や …

Jun 27, 2020 · Japanese, a language which has 3-level vowel height system, does not have the distinction of /e/ and /ɛ/. Or speaking more correctly, Japanese え and お are (true) mid vowels, that …

www is Internet slang like lol in Japanese. It stands for warai (笑い), often used on online message boards 笑 is like www, it's another internet slang, like lol in Japanese. You will also see people …

But I had a Japanese native tell me it was more natural to use it with the verb 言う (polite form is 言います). So, to break it down, you're literally asking "What is ~ called in Japanese?" or "What do you …

ほど and くらい can indeed be interchangeable, though your mileage will vary depending on the particular phrase. The difference is between "measuring up to" and "about equal to", which is as …