According to the Foreign Service Institute*, Japanese is a ...

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Romaji Katakana カタカナ Hiragana ひらがな Kanji 漢字 Japanese scripts by percentages used in an average sentence** Ogenki deshō ka? = a very polite way to ask “how are you?” According to the Foreign Service Institute*, Japanese is a Category V language, meaning it is a “Language which [is] exceptionally difficult for native English speakers” and takes 88 weeks (2200 hours) to learn. How willing are you to take the challenge? Where can it take you? Biggest Japanese cities by population: Tokyo Yokohama Osaka Nagoya Sapporo 1021 A.D. - Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s novel The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is believed to have first been published. *** Genji is widely regarded as the world’s oldest existing novel and was originally written entirely in hiragana, the Japanese script that women writers used at the time. * (n.d.). Effective Language Learning. Retrieved from http://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/lan guage-guide/language-difficulty ** Nakajima, K. (1988). On developing HyperCard stacks for the study of Chinese characters: KanjiCard. Calico Journal, 6(2), 75–87. *** The Tale of Genji. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_genji 1021 A.D. 1000 A.D. 1075 A.D. 1050 A.D. 1100 A.D.

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Romaji

Katakanaカタカナ

Hiraganaひらがな

Kanji漢字

Japanese scripts by percentages used in an average sentence**

Ogenki deshō ka? = a very polite way to ask “how are you?”

According to the Foreign Service Institute*, Japanese is a Category V language, meaning

it is a “Language which [is] exceptionally difficult for native English speakers” and

takes 88 weeks (2200 hours) to learn.

How willing are you to take the challenge?

Where can it take you?

Biggest Japanese cities by population:TokyoYokohamaOsakaNagoyaSapporo

1021 A.D. -Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s novel The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is believed to have first been published. ***

Genji is widely regarded as the world’s oldest existing novel and was originally written entirely in hiragana, the Japanese script that women writers used at the time. * (n.d.). Effective Language Learning. Retrieved from http://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/lan

guage-guide/language-difficulty

** Nakajima, K. (1988). On developing HyperCard stacks for the study of Chinese characters: KanjiCard. Calico Journal, 6(2), 75–87.

*** The Tale of Genji. (n.d.). In Wikipedia. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_genji

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