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Introduction To Japanese Language

The document provides an introduction to the Japanese language, including details on pronunciation, writing systems, and greetings. It discusses that Japanese has 5 vowels pronounced clearly. There are three writing scripts: hiragana for sentences, katakana for foreign words, and kanji for meaning blocks. Japanese follows a subject-object-verb structure with words often omitted if understood from context. Common greetings like "ohayou gozaimasu" for good morning are also presented.

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Introduction To Japanese Language

The document provides an introduction to the Japanese language, including details on pronunciation, writing systems, and greetings. It discusses that Japanese has 5 vowels pronounced clearly. There are three writing scripts: hiragana for sentences, katakana for foreign words, and kanji for meaning blocks. Japanese follows a subject-object-verb structure with words often omitted if understood from context. Common greetings like "ohayou gozaimasu" for good morning are also presented.

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Introduction to

Japanese language
1. Japanese Pronunciation

a.
b.
c.
d.

e.

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The Japanese language has only 5 vowels : a, i, u, e, o.


They are pronounced clearly and sharply.
a, i, u, e, o and a, ka, sa, ta, na, ha, ma, ya, ra, wa, n.
Romaji is used for the convenience of foreigners. Wit
h Romaji, you can learn how to speak Japanese without
knowing any Japanese writing system.
Link http://webjapanese.com/handout/syllable_s/ JS

a
ka
sa
ta
na
ha
ma
ya
ra
wa
n

i
ki

shi (si)
chi (ti)
ni
hi
mi
[i]
ri

u
ku

e
ke

o
ko

su
tsu (tu)
nu
fu (hu)
mu
yu
ru

se
te
ne
he
me
[e]
re

so
to
no
ho
mo
yo
ro
[o](wo)

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nihonjin ni hon ji n or ni ho n ji n?Js


ni ho n ji n (Japanese)

kinen ki n e n or ki ne n?
ki n e n (No smoking)

ki ne n (commemorate)

Each syllable(hiragana) is pronounced with e
qual length.

2. Japanese Writing Systems doc

There are three different types of writing scripts in Japanese.

Hiragana; You can write an entire


Japanese sentence in hiragana.
Katakana; Foreign names, the na
mes of foreign places and words of foreign o
rigin.
Kanji; Blocks of meaning (nouns, ste
ms of adjectives and verbs).

3. Greetings 6

Js

o ha yo u go za i ma su; Good morning.



ko
n ni chi wa; Hello.

ko n ba n wa; Good evening.



o ya su mi na sa i; Good night.

sa yo u na ra; Good bye.

ha
ji me ma shi te; How do you do?


do u zo yo ro shi ku; I am glad to meet yo

u.

; Good morning. 5 Js
; Good evening.
; Good night.
; How do you do?
; I am glad to meet you.
; Good bye.
; Hello.

4. Words order 9 8

Japanese is a Subject-Object-Verb language.


The verb always comes at the end of the sentence.
Kanji() represents blocks of meaning (nouns,
stems of adjectives and verbs) and some sort of hir
agana express the grammatical relationship betwee
n them.
Words or phrases are often omitted if they are und
erstood from the context. Even the subject and obj
ect of a sentence are often omitted.

Mr.Moey speaks Japanese. S-V-O


mo e i sa n wa ni ho n go wo ha na shi ma su.
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Mr.Moey
Japanese
speaks

mo e i sa n wa ni ho n go wo ha na shi ma se n.

hajimemashite 7
(name) desu mo e i desu
douzo yoroshiku

When you meet somebody the first time and intro


duce yourself to him, you are usually supposed to
tell him your name. In such situations Japanese pe
ople seldom say I (watashi wa) or My name (wata
shi no namae wa). They only say (name) desu.

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