08-04-2004, 03:35 PM
Sol Wrote:Cool!
what i dont get though is how they understand japanese words written using the english alphabet..?
the japanese writen in the english alphabet is called 'romanji'. to me, its like the phonetic spelling of the word, for instance:
'koban wa' is said like it is spelled. the same is true for 'matte', which is said 'mahtay'
the really difficult ideograms (words made from pictures) are kanji. even i cant understand them very well. the symbols that decswxaqz showed you are either hiragana or katakana. hiragana is used for the 'spelling of japanese words, while katakana is used for words from other languages like english.
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