The Japanese Language

"Japan" written in Japanese

Japanese is an East Asian language spoken by about 125 million people, primarily in Japan, where is is the national language. It is a very similar to the Korean language because the both are a member of the "Japonic language family". Little is known of the languages prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. The Japanese language is actually one of the hardest languages to learn if you yourself are not Japanese. In comparison with other languages, Japanese knows relatively few sounds, and pronunciation poses little problems to most learners. The biggest difficulty are accents, which do exist, but to a much lower extent than the Chinese language. In addition, there are relatively many homonyms, words that are pronounced the same way, but have different meanings. There's also different levels of speech. Different words and expressions are used when talking to an unknown person or a superior, as opposed to when talking to a child, family member or a close friend. For instance, there are more than five different words for the English word "I", which are used depending on the context. For informal situations, a honorific language level (keigo) is still in common use.

Hope everyone enjoyed reading this blog and I also hoped you have learned something. Until next time!

                                                                                                    ~ The Man Who's A Fan Of Japan