Japanese Basics

Basic Information About Japanese

Japanese is a completely different language to English. It has three different sets of characters, kanji, hiragana and katakana. Combined, the total number of characters used in the Japanese language is said to nearly reach 7,000.
Here we introduce various aspects of the Japanese language while touching on specific examples.

Japanese Basics
No. 1: About Japanese
No. 2: Gairaigo (words of foreign origin)
No. 3: Differences between Japanese and English
No. 4: Font and Layout
No. 5: Japanese Indices
No. 6: Displaying Japanese on English Versions of Windows or Macintosh Operating Software
No. 7: Can You Imagine Translations Like This Passing?
No. 8: The Applicability of Machine Translations
No. 9: Double-byte and Single-byte Characters
No. 10: Can You Tell the Difference between “カシオ” and ”カツオ”?

Japanese Basics

Basic Information About Japanese

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