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Differences between Japanese and English
Japanese is an independent language; one that differs from English and European languages based on the Roman tongue. For example, the subject of a sentence, which is required in English, is often not used in Japanese. In fact, writing the subject in the same way as in English can result in a Japanese sentence that is difficult to comprehend.
Another technique that is necessary for the sake of comprehensibility is to divide one sentence into several sentences, or to combine several sentences into one.
For such reasons, the translation of English into Japanese normally takes more time than the translation of English into European languages.
- 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”?
