Our Handicap
When I study English, I always realize the same thing. What's this? It's a handicap of vocabulary. Especially, while I'm learning in my class with Romance language speakers, I feel our gap strongly.. Because sometimes they have similar words in their language and they can remember it easily. Actually, we (Japanese) have similar words to English, but most of them are noun and they have different pronunciations. So it's rough for me to remember verb, adjective and adverb in English..
And idioms, I think most of idioms arise from culture; so if culture were totally different, you couldn't understand idioms. Don't you think so? See, which is closer to America and England, Europe or Asia?
I like to study English and I feel I'm making progress day by day. But sometimes I'm jealous other language speakers.. Why Japanese is so different from English? Do you know any language similar to Japanese? We are lonely in the world??
One of my friends told me
"I think Japanese is one of the most difficult language in the world"
posted by chiepet @ 10:50 PM
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4 Comments:
Korean is very similar to Japanese.
I know it but I think it's not very similar. Because we don't use same letters.(I know we use some same words..) And if I hear Korea, I can't understand..
But for example Spanish speaker, I've heard that they can understand Italian if Italian speaker speaks slowly..
I want to know that kind of "similar".
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Japanese is completely Alien to any other language.
The only similarity is with Chinese... I can't read Kanji very well, but you can read a chinese menu.
English and German are similar, as well Italian, Spanish and French are also all similar because they all have roots from the Latin language...
But Japanese has no common root with any other language.
That's what comes from evolving in your "fortress island", isolated from everyone else.
But at least you have Katakana words...
The closest relative is Chinese, only because thousands of Chinese words were adopted into the Japanese language.
Gomen... Gambatte yo!
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