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  doerrier at 03:48 AM JST - 27th September

  I have found Japanese language to be a visual language. English is more of an auditory one. With such a small group of phonemes in Japanese, as compared to other languages, I believe that one must be actually passing the visual image (Kanji) of the word one is speaking in…

  Posted in How difficult or easy is Japanese to learn, compared to other languages? at 03:48 AM JST - 27th September

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  doerrier at 02:03 PM JST - 29th August

  Did anyone see Ms. Ishihara in the Atomic Bomb special on TV Asahi a few weeks ago? It was a very moving program.

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  doerrier at 10:09 PM JST - 2nd August

  The impact of television, manga, anime, music etc is great.

  I first came to Japan as an exchange student in 1980. I was an Art/Philosophy student and excited to study the "Culture" as I imagined it was. When I arrived and saw manga and television I embraced these as language…

  Posted in Years ago, business was the main motivation for young foreigners to learn the Japanese language. But nowadays, people learn Japanese because they want to read Japanese manga, play Japanese games and read books on games before they are translated. at 10:09 PM JST - 2nd August