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Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 9:05 pm

Japanese is a language made up of three alphabets and they are hiragana {hih-rah-gah-naha], katakana {kah-tah-kah-nah} and kanji {kah-n-jih}. The language evolved from Chinese, this is reason why some of the wording looks the same or similar, like for instance, the date ８日１２月２００９年。{8/12/09}.

Hiragana

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Katakana

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Kanji

｛This is only some of the thousands of Kanji｝

To be literate in Japanese you need to know at least 2000 kanji.

私のお名前はミランダです。
十七歳の高校生の女の人です。
オーストラリア人です。

After a lot of hard work and study, you should come out with the above sentences. Please don't be scared of learning Japanese, start from the very basics.

つずく。。。

To be continued...

Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:40 am

When I think of Japanese culture, I think of the customs.

Did you know:

-You can't wear shoes inside. (I'm sure everyone would know that already)
-Using chop sticks inappropriately (ie. passing food to other people chop sticks to chop sticks, waving around your chop sticks, stabbing your food with chop sticks as if it were a fork).
-Japanese don't usually shake hands when meeting for the first time (unless a hand is extended out to you, then that means it's ok)
-When meeting for the first time, to be safe it's good to bow lowish.
-Hugging and kissing in public is not acceptable nor do Japanese hold hands.
-Always be extra polite, unless with family, lover and really close friends.
-When you meet someone for the first time, use their last name plus ~san on the end. (Example Tomoko Yamada would be Yamada san)
-Never stick your chop sticks in you food sticking up, it means it's food for the spirits.

There's still more to come, please add some on ^_^

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uOwca

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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:07 am

I heard that Japanese didn't bake cookies or other sweeties and they don't know taste of cherry, but it's may be just gossip.
Anyway i love Japanese culture. I can read and read and rave about Geishes.
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:48 pm

uOwca

I heard that Japanese didn't bake cookies or other sweeties and they don't know taste of cherry, but it's may be just gossip.
Anyway i love Japanese culture. I can read and read and rave about Geishes.
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I think that was gossip, I'm sure they bake them. I love geishas too, have you ever seen the movie Memoirs of a Geisha?

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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 2:50 am

It's all gossip!
Why, they have all sorts of sweet food, and all sorts of ice cream tastes!
They came up with anpan, melonpan, the sweet bean paste filling, obanyaki, and many more...
Woo. owo I just love Japanese snacks~! heart

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:18 am

omg i love japan!!!

i went there around holloween :3

lookie!! its the new heartgold, soulsilver games in japan! they will be released in the usa in the spring

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