An introduction to Japanese - Syntax, Grammar & Language
1.1. THE KANA 11 listeners, different people will pronounce the initial consonant in this col- umn differently. While in many we ...
12 CHAPTER 1. THE SYNTAX a different phonetic system. The best advice with regards to this is to simply listen to a lot of Japan ...
1.2. WRITING SPOKEN JAPANESE 13 has been doubled in length, but in hiragana the doubling is different. Of the five basic Japanes ...
14 CHAPTER 1. THE SYNTAX kana pronunciation glide pronunciation + ki + ya kya + shi + yu shu + chi + yo cho + mi + ya mya + hi + ...
1.2. WRITING SPOKEN JAPANESE 15 1.2.1 Katakana specific As katakana has been used to write out words imported from other lan- gu ...
16 CHAPTER 1. THE SYNTAX Due to the fact that most loan words have come from some specific language, many of which are not Enlgi ...
1.3. KANJI 17 real exclamation. Finally, not quite interpunction but important nonetheless are the two ways to emphasise parts o ...
18 CHAPTER 1. THE SYNTAX translating as ”Chinese characters”, which are ideographs that over the course of history made their wa ...
1.3. KANJI 19 tend to span from the late thirteenth century to well into the Edo period ( , edojidai), also known as the Tokugaw ...
20 CHAPTER 1. THE SYNTAX reliance on kanji? While it seems odd that Chinese characters are still being used in a language that a ...
1.3. KANJI 21 the turn of the 20th century, wriĴen Japanese was as complicated as writ- ten Chinese in terms of kanji use, and e ...
22 CHAPTER 1. THE SYNTAX Form/Reading combinations( , keiseimoji) – These charac- ters combine two kanji into a single characte ...
1.3. KANJI 23 angled strokes stroke drawing order examples ㇄ top to boĴom, then left to right, as one stroke 兦, ㇅ left to right, ...
24 CHAPTER 1. THE SYNTAX (d) Stroke that intersect complete shapes, such as the vertical in or the horizontal in , are wriĴen la ...
1.3. KANJI 25 a phonetic text to note that it should be pronounced as , ”ekusakyuushion soodo”, atransliterationof the words ”ex ...
26 CHAPTER 1. THE SYNTAX left, and something else to the right. This is not a coincidence: most kanji can be described as some b ...
1.3. KANJI 27 ferent variants of of this form, of which the Minchou, , and gothic, , variants are the most common. The Minchou v ...
28 CHAPTER 1. THE SYNTAX kaisho. The simplification here refers to the fact that these two styles con- nect many strokes into si ...
1.3. KANJI 29 The poem, in style Lastly, there are two ”traditional” styles that you only find used in very specific application ...
30 CHAPTER 1. THE SYNTAX The poem, in style Special dictionaries exist that list kanji in their different forms: san- taijiten, ...
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