Nihongomax Japanese

It is said that Japanese pronunciation is easy for native English speakers, but I think that this can make them complacent. Whilst a lost of sounds in Japanese also exists in English. There are still lots of differences between these sounds. This means that there are still quite a few difficult words to say in Japanese. In today’s lesson, I would like to introduce you to the following set of vocabulary that might not sound too familiar but yet good to keep in your vocabulary list:  Shotaimen （しょたいめん，初対面）＝ Meeting someone for the first time Kanojo towa shotaimen desu. =>I just met her for the first time. かのじょとは，しょたいめん　です。（彼女とは　初対面　です。） Uwanosora （うわのそら）　＝　absent-minded Karewa nani o ittemo uwano sora da. => It doesn’t matter what you tell him, his mind is somewhere else. かれは　なにをいっても　うわのそらだ。　（彼は　何を言っても　うわのそらだ。） Gaiken （がいけん，外見）= Appearance Gaiken dakede hito o handan shinaide. => Don’t judge anyone by appearance. がいけんだけで，ひとを　はんだんしないで。（外見だけで　人...

Japan is called Nihon (日本) in Japanese. ‘Ni’ (日) meaning ‘sun’ and ‘Hon’ (本) meaning ‘origin’. Quite literally, that means, “land of the rising sun”, thus ‘Nihon’ (日本). Japan is an island nation in East Asia located in the Pacific Ocean. It shares its borders with North Korea, South Korea, China, Philippines, Russia, North Mariana Islands, and Taiwan. Japan has a population of 126 million inhabitants. Tokyo is the capital city and the largest city in Japan with a GDP of ~$1.6 trillion. Japan is a monolingual country. Japanese people are unified by a commonly spoken language, which has made it easier for the Japanese people to achieve political and cultural unity more quickly than othe r Asian nations. INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE LANGUAGE One of the most difficult languages to learn is Japanese. Unlike English which has only twenty-six (26) letters, Japanese has three different sets of characters. Hiragana, Katakana, and dreaded Kanji. Hiragana  Hiragana is ...