Author Topic: Why is there is Asian writing? (Read 1756 times)

Matthew · « **Reply #10 on:** December 22, 2020, 04:50:39 PM »

Here's an interesting highlight from Wikipedia:

forlorn · « **Reply #11 on:** December 22, 2020, 06:41:39 PM »

I followed the link. It's just KakaoTalk, a South Korean messaging app. Why it appears for people outside South Korea, I don't know, but it's harmless nevertheless.

Alan · « **Reply #12 on:** December 23, 2020, 02:56:58 AM »

Quote from: Matthew on December 22, 2020, 04:43:38 PM

Japanese has a total of 4 character sets they use -

Kanji - 1,950 total - Chinese characters. Express whole words or ideas, or the roots of verbs, etc. There are only ~1950 official ones, but many more in archaic usage that natives know and can read/write. You need to know 1950 of them to read a newspaper.
Hiragana - 46 of these - smooth script posted above -- each letter represents a syllable. Used to spell out how to pronounce Kanji, particles, and word endings.
Katakana - 46 of these - 1:1 with Hiragana, only more angular and used to sound out foreign words. But sometimes it's best to just use
Roumaji - "Roman letters" - 26 of course. Used when exotic or foreign is what you're after. Modern Japanese are fascinated by English, and they all take English in High School the way we take 2-3 years of Spanish or French.

I could go on about Japanese all day, since it's probably my strongest 2nd language. If you have any other questions, please let me know.

Are you familiar with Japanese?
I heard there are 3 levels of politeness for saying "thank you" in Japanese. What are they ?

Minnesota · « **Reply #13 on:** December 23, 2020, 03:08:18 AM »

Japanese does have much more complicated methods of politeness levels than say, in French or Spanish. There are far many more pronouns, including one to be mean with someone.

Matthew · « **Reply #14 on:** December 23, 2020, 08:45:08 AM »

Quote from: Alan on December 23, 2020, 02:56:58 AM

Are you familiar with Japanese?
I heard there are 3 levels of politeness for saying "thank you" in Japanese. What are they ?

I don't have much formal training. I didn't sit in a classroom and learn "the 3 ways of saying thank you".

But let's put it this way, you could say

SANKYUU -- basically "thank you" -- very casual
doumo
arigatou
doumo arigatou
arigatou gozaimashita <--- there's one of the higher levels

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