Introduction - Japanese

Japanese is easy to read and speak but it is difficult to writing Kanji letters since Kanji character is morae than 4000 and difficult to draw and need more Practice.

Japanese is very interesting to learn. You have to speak and use very ploite words while speaking otherwise japanese thing that you are so rude and dangerous.

There are 3 kind of character set.
1. Hirakana
2. Katakana
3. Kanji

In general people mix the 3 kinds of characters while writing.
Normally Katakana is used for Foreigner names and words derived from foreign and newest japanese words.

Japanese often use titles of the person referred to where pronouns would be used in English. For example, when speaking to one's teacher, it is appropriate to use sensei (先生, teacher), but inappropriate to use anata. This is because anata is used to refer to people of equal or lower status, and one's teacher has higher status.

Tanaka-san usually means Mr./Mrs./Miss. Tanaka.

Hiragana:
wa / ha:
The particle wa (topic marker, usually translated "as for...") is written using the hiragana character (ha), not (wa) . So when you see a , how are you supposed to know whether to pronounce it ha or wa? The answer is "context", and it's something I can't really help you with. If the sentence would make sense with a particle, then it's wa. If the character is clearly part of an entire word, it's ha.

hagakiwa
hagaki wa... ("as for the postcards...")

e / he:
The particle e ("to" / "towards") is written using the hiragana character (he), not (e). As with ha / wa above, then, the context of the sentence will tell you whether to pronounce as he or e.

tsu:
With the addition of the small tsu just in front of it, the ko has its initial k-sound "doubled"; instead of kakou we get something more like kak-kou. Another example, but this time the doubled consonant is the t-sound from to:

hato hato (pigeon)
has small tsu = tto hatto (a ban, prohibition)
Note: Tsu is written in small case to doube the pronunciation. otherwise it wll be pronounced as usual.

The above changes are same to Katakana.

Grammer:

* 'ga' marks the subject of a sentence and puts emphasis on it.
* 'no' signifies that the item before it posesses the item after it.
Ex:anata no - yours,your
* 'o' marks the direct object of a sentence. It tells what or who receives
the action of the verb.
* 'e' shows the direction or destination of a motion.
* 'ka' shows that a sentence is a question.
Ex:
wa--for subject ex:wathachi wa - I am
o -- for object ex: Hon o - book

Nakamura san wa sensei desu.----->Nakamura is a teacher.
Nakamura wa anata no sensei desu.---->Nakamura is your teacher.
Nakamura wa anata no sensei desu ka.--->Is Nakamura your teacher?

The particle "ni" is also used to mark time in a sentence. For example, "I'm leaving at 3 o'clock" (watashi wa sanji ni hanareru).



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Places to visit in japan:
1. Fukuchiyama -Kyoto
2. Koyasan or Mount koya - wakayama prefecture
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