How difficult is it to learn Japanese?
Although it is a rather inaccessible language, Japanese enjoy a great appreciation among connoisseurs. Once mastered by the speaker, all your efforts are highly rewarded. The writing Japanese language uses three alphabets: hiragana, katakana and kanji.
Three alphabets-hundreds of meanings
The two systems Kana (hiragana and katakana) have each 48 basic letters; kanji are thousands in number and have known about 2000 to read a general newspaper. Hiragana and katakana are called "syllabary", as each letter is such a syllable. Hiragana and katakana contain the same letters, but writing them is different - forms are more rounded in hiragana as points, while in Kataka are rough. The fundamental difference
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Thus, there are many ways to show respect for the person speaking, the person spoken or subject. The fundamental distinction is one tripartite: Honorary language (when the action is taken by someone we know), humble language (when talking with someone I know about the action taken by you) and neutral language. Often, these nuances are indicated by the verb forms that may or may use different structure for each of these cases. But politeness it is expressed by other words, from the statement by prefixes and / or suffixes accompanying words or even by changing those …show more content…
For a student wishing to learn Japanese are very important two points. First, it is necessary to set up realistic deadlines for acquiring the desired Japanese language skills. Thus, with each session the student will gain new powers and can even carry basic Japanese conversations right after the first level. Unlike other languages (e.g. English), Japanese cannot be easily used in everyday environments (e.g. living in Japan) until at least two years of study, with the acquisition of at least a thousand kanji without that a foreigner cannot understand Japan "written realities" around him. The second aspect necessary for a student without studying the Japanese language likely to be a futile exercise is work and perseverance. Because the Japanese language cannot be found as easily as other languages - English, French, Spanish, German (in the movies, in articles, on television, in music, literature, etc.), the student must work much more to hold new issues and learn to not forget the ones already
Recently the concerns of women around their equality in society has become a hotly debated topic in the public spot light. Much of the debate concerns women and the ingrained sexism that permeates most cultures. Many women's activists feel that this ingrained sexism has widened the gap between men and women in a political, social, and economic sense. And for the most part they do have strong evidence to support these claims. Women have suffered through millennia of male dominated societies where treatment of women has been, and in some cases still is, inhuman. Women are treated like subhuman creatures that have only exist to be used for procreate and to be subjugated by men for household use. It has only been very recently that women have become recognized as equals in the eyes of men. Equals in the sense that they have the same political and social rights as males. While the situation has improved, women still have to deal with a male oriented world. Often women in the workplace are thought of as inferior and as a liability. This can be due to concerns about maternity leave, or women with poor leadership skills. But also in part it is due because of the patriarchy that controls all aspects and dynamics of the culture, family, politics, and economy. Even developed countries like The United Kingdom, United States, Germany, and France, could be classified as a patriarchies. These countries may not agree with this notion because of expansive, but not complete changes, that have gradually equalized women in society. However, there are developed countries that openly express a patriarchy and have enacted little societal changes to bring equality to women. Japan is one such country, and t...
For example, Meyerhoff describes the use of an honorific form of a word as a demonstration of respect by the speaker towards the person with whom they are speaking (85). In order to collect data, researchers may analyze audio recordings, observe social interactions, or review transcriptions. Meyerhoff provides the example of a trascribed exchange in Japanese in which a student and a professor both elect to use the honorific forms in their conversation. When speaking in Japanese, “speakers have to be very discerning: they have to be sensitive to the social significance of the relationships and settings they find themselves in and be able to appropriately draw on the conventions for use of honorifics in those settings” (85). Although this is the specific methodology in Japanese politeness, other languages may hold an identical
In all, it is important for students of all abilities to learn a foreign language. Not only
From analyzing the data, the English teacher’s utterances which are classified as using positive politeness strategy are presented as the followings.
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Any language that does not include the feature repeatability will be an example inversely refute this hypothesis, and this is what would argue that it applies to the language; This language refutes feature repeatability alleged Even when can learn repetition in other languages or show evidence of thinking recursively, as is the case with speakers language. Thus, if there is one language can exist without tag repeatability, all other languages can in terms of principle, and this contrasts with the claim that the repeatability is a prerequisite indispensable for human contact.
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Apart from the Japanese honorifics or politeness, I would like to observe other results of MT from English to Japanese in order to measure their effectiveness.
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