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[nakano]

Hello!! I�m Japanese. I would like to tell about the Japanese characters.
There are three kinds of characters in Japan - �hiragana�, �katakana� and �kanji� (Chinese character). There are 50 letters in �hiragana� and �katakana�. There are so many letters in �kanji�. Maybe almost Japanese people don�t know the number of �kanji�. �Hiragana" and �katakana� were created based on Chinese character about one thousand years ago. �Kanji� came from ancient China.
I would like to know about your country�s characters! Please tell me!!

[man660316]

Hello Nakano san,

My name is Christine from Taiwan. You're topic is really interesting to us since I write �kanji� you called every day. I don't know how much Chinese word do we have, too. Sometimes, we also forget how to write the word we would like to use.

I am studying Japanese now and I think Japanese is really difficult to me, not the words but the grammar. I learned the Japanese from our Japanese teachere, it's so cute. I plan to visit Japan within this year and I hope I could get more Japanese culture from you. Thank you in advance.

[mandrake1981]

hi, u guys
i`m chinese, the topic u talk about is japanese characters. u didn`t, howerer, say anything about the exact things of “hiragana”, “katakana” or “kanji” , how could it be ? which is ur favorable ? could u tell us that?
in this world, chinese often appears in so many countries, especially in euro, america,and japan, etc... one thing i wanna say is china is a huge country with 14 billion people or more, and some of them lived in foreign countries, therefore, it`s bound to take some culture of china into the country they live.
one last thing the major character of chinese is modest, which is opposite to american and european

[danbloom]

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[LucentShade]

I'm studying Japanese as a "side project" these days, and I've been practicing with hiragana and katakana. At this point, I can read most things written in hiragana. Of course, I usually have no idea what they mean, since I don't know the vocabulary, but I can still translitterate them into the "r�maji" that I'm typing in now.

[rivervalley]

Hi Danbloom,

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