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Japanese (日本語, Nihongo ) is a language spoken by over 127
million people, mainly in Japan, but also by Japanese emigrant communities
around the world. It is considered an agglutinative language and is
distinguished by a complex system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical
nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary which
indicate the relative status of speaker and listener. The sound inventory of
Japanese is relatively small, and it has a lexically distinct pitch-accent
system. Its recorded history goes back to the 8th century, when the three
major works of Old Japanese were compiled.IMPROVE YOUR JAPANESE
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way to use your Japanese regularly is to talk to native Japanese who
are interested in developing their English skills. This way you
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new friends at the same time.
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partners, both male and female. It is great to have friends in Japan
so when you travel there, you can meet them and they can show you
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The Japanese language is written with a combination of three different types
of glyphs: Chinese characters (called kanji), and two syllabic scripts,
hiragana and katakana. The Latin alphabet (called rōmaji) is also often used
in modern Japanese, especially for things such as company names,
advertising, and when inputting Japanese into a computer. Western style
Arabic numerals are generally used for numbers, but traditional
Chinese/Japanese numberings are also commonplace.
The Japanese vocabulary has been heavily influenced by loans from other
languages. A vast number of words were borrowed from Chinese, or created on
Chinese models, over a period of at least 1,500 years. Since the late 19th
century, Japanese has borrowed a considerable number of words from Western
languages, primarily English.
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