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Nebyoolae · @nebyoolae
54 followers · 812 posts · Server masto.neb.host

Am I the only one who thinks that the characters シ and ツ look like smilies?

And ソ and ン look like smilies that are winking?

And that they are all easily confused by non-native speakers?

No? Just me? OK ;-P

#japanese #katakana

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𝕂ℕ𝕋ℝ𝕆 :acat_bop: :vibing: · @KNTRO
1333 followers · 1643 posts · Server mas.to
YouTube - 4 cosas que NO ME GUSTAN de las Lenguas de Asia 😔| Lo que me hubiera gustado saber antes 🇨🇳🇯🇵🇮🇳

#xiang #wu #vietnamita #teocheng #tailandes #jokinawense #mongol #min #mandarin #katakana #jin #japones #Hokkien #hiragana #hindi #hangul #hakka #gan #devanagari #coreano #chino #cantones #bopomofo #arabe #idiomas #sergiowissbegierde #escritura #asia #lenguas #wissbegierde

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𝕂ℕ𝕋ℝ𝕆 :acat_bop: :vibing: · @KNTRO
1333 followers · 1643 posts · Server mas.to

#xiang #wu #vietnamita #teocheng #tailandes #jokinawense #mongol #min #mandarin #katakana #jin #japones #Hokkien #hiragana #hindi #hangul #hakka #gan #devanagari #coreano #chino #cantones #bopomofo #arabe #idiomas #sergiowissbegierde #escritura #asia #lenguas

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Brayd · @brayd
16 followers · 78 posts · Server social.braydmedia.de

Could someone explain me what exactly is the difference between and and when which of them is used or in which combination in ? 🤔

#hiragana #katakana #kanji #japanese

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Chris Merle · @clmerle
387 followers · 7315 posts · Server mstdn.social

I am not a , not even close, but I do like learning languages. I speak none fluently, but I could probably function as a tourist who knows enough to get by in some of those countries that speak them. Anyway, I had no problem with remembering the , which I think now is because it has so much in common with the . I had no frame of reference with the or and there was no in the test.

#Duolingo #japanese #romaji #syllabary #katakana #hirigana #romanalphabet #cyrillicalphabet #polyglot

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Handid Braille Services · @HandidBraille
2 followers · 8 posts · Server mas.to

Handid Braille Services adds Japanese to its list of languages! We can now produce that includes , , and .

#japanese #katakana #hiragana #kanji #braille

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Pan · @JapanStudyramPan
29 followers · 91 posts · Server norden.social
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Die Drops, nutzte ich um zu lernen. Diese Kana bleiben einfach nicht lange im Kopf hängen. Die von Drops klappt bei mir super, 3-4 Tage machen und schon sitzt alles sehr gut 😃

#app #katakana #methode #japan #japanisch

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otakubinary オタクバイナリ :verified: · @otakubinary
16 followers · 73 posts · Server tkz.one
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TIP para el japonés que me ha venido superbien
ツ Mira al TSUELO
シ　Mira al SHIELO

　

#vtuber #learningjapanese #aprenderjapones #otakubinary #日本語 #katakana #カタカナ #片仮名

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Richard Penner · @Arpie4Math
71 followers · 239 posts · Server mathstodon.xyz

As I linger, COVID-leary, hunting for distraction,
I scrape the barrel of screen-inaction,
Seeking in my lackadaisical fashion,
For a hint of intellectual satisfaction.

Lo in the credits now unwinding,
A mystery of linguistic pining,
How does this borrowed thing,
Appear in transliteration surprising?

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One of the features of Japanese is that it is filled with words borrowed from Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, German, and English. Some have familiar meanings and pronunciations, and some have been remixed in ways that you might need a detective to unravel.

While de-stressing with some low-conflict anime¹, I watched the end credits scroll by and wondered why 「キャスト」(kyasuto) was the transliteration chosen for "cast". The 「キャ」(kya) mora (syllable) seemed like an odd choice in the absence of other factors.

The villain, as I see it, appears to be either a conscious choice to separate English homophones, or (perhaps more likely) two unrelated borrowings from different dialects of English.

US "cast" → /kæst/ → キャスト
UK "caste" → /kɑːst/ → カースト
But in either US or UK English, "cast" and "caste" are homophones! (Sometimes even along with "karst".)

On the Mac command line, we can recover much of the detail, without human contact because some text-to-speech engines approximate English, Japanese, or IPA phonetics. (But not one does all three.)

say -v Victoria -r 120 cast caste ; say -v Victoria -r 120 '/kæst/' '/kɑːst/' ; say -v Daniel cast caste ; say -v Kyoko -r 120 'キャスト、カースト'

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¹ Hulu in the US has both Bofuri (痛いのは嫌なので防御力に極振りしたいと思います) and By the Grace of the Gods (神達に拾われた男) which feature gentle, stress-free fun

#loanwords #japanese #anime #english #katakana #poetry #doggerel #phonetics #mac

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Pascal Leinert · @pascal
292 followers · 180 posts · Server social.pascal-leinert.de

ist im ersten Moment gar nicht so übel, dank und . Und dann gibt's da noch ...

youtube.com/watch?v=CZDGbbexys

#japanisch #hiragana #katakana #kanji

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Cheatography · @cheatography
5 followers · 159 posts · Server botsin.space
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Just released: Hiragana and Katakana Cheat Sheet by PokemonTrainerGold

Download it free at cheatography.com/pokemontraine

Here's their description of it: A kana chart complete with pronunciation, origins, mnemonics and phrases.

@cheatsheets

#cheatsheet #cheatsheets #basic #japanese #hiragana #katakana #mnemonics

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Tamster ♚ · @tamster
15 followers · 66 posts · Server mas.to

It seems like I finally managed to learn and memorize most hiragana. Let's hope tackling katakana will not mess with my memory.

#languagelearning #katakana #hiragana #language #japanese #learningjapanese

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Chris Simpkins · @csimpkins
206 followers · 286 posts · Server typo.social
The Japan Times - Across Japan, baby names are getting more creative

This is an interesting article on trends in naming children in Japan:

japantimes.co.jp/life/2023/01/

I learned there are government-mandated limits on the Kanji that can be used in names. The lists are defined on this Ministry of Justice page:

moj.go.jp/MINJI/minji86.html

#japan #kanji #Hiragana #katakana

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DavidB🍥 · @davidb
411 followers · 523 posts · Server zirk.us

#neilgaiman #thesandman #katakana

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Cheatography · @cheatography
4 followers · 35 posts · Server botsin.space
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#cheatsheet #cheatsheets #japanese #katakana #alphabet

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Cheatography · @cheatography
3 followers · 87 posts · Server botsin.space
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#cheatsheet #cheatsheets #japanese #katakana #alphabet

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Keisuke Honda | 本田 啓輔 · @kdhonda
1 followers · 4 posts · Server masto.ai

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I am a research assistant in multilingualism and a tutor in Japanese as a foreign language at Dublin City University in Ireland. My primary research area is in grapholinguistics, with a particular focus on the linguistic and pedagogical aspects of the present-day Japanese writing system.

#introduction #grapholinguistics #japanesewritingsystem #kanji #hiragana #katakana #romaji #japaneseasaforeignlanguage #jfl #multilingualism #dublincityuniversity #dcu

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マリオ · @mario
96 followers · 53 posts · Server neko.cat

アイコンをダブルクリックしてアプリケーションをインストールします
(icon-o doubleclick-shite application-o install-shimasu)
"Doubleclick the icon to install the application." 😅

tofugu.com/japanese/katakaniza

#katakana #カタカナ #learningjapanese #日本語を勉強する

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idjy (Eve) · @idjy
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Parfois, l'humour consiste à prendre la blague de ton neveu de 5 ans et à en faire un truc que seules les personnes qui lisent le peuvent comprendre.


Et, oui, vous pouvez l'acheter.

#japonais #katakana #humour #wtf

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royterdw · @royterdw
11 followers · 19 posts · Server rcsocial.net

@tomasino Can screen readers pronounce Japanese and ?

#Hiragana #katakana

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