① Drawing of concrete objects/phenomena ( 象 しょう 形 けい 文 も 字 じ shōkei moji): Let's have a look at the different ways* kanji were formed. Understanding the different types of kanji That is why kanji are still used today and have so many different readings.īut don’t panic, KANJI-Link is here to help you memorize them! But they didn’t get rid of kanji! They were too useful to differentiate homophones (words that have the same pronunciation but a different spelling). Roughly, this is how they did it:Ī few centuries later, Japanese people created 2 writing systems based on kanji: hiragana and katakana. So, Japanese people had the great (?) idea to borrow the Chinese writing system. Originally, Japanese was only a spoken language. Her students ask her questions about her own (Japanese) language that makes Haruko realize that she doesn't even fully understand her native language.Kanji: Introduction A little bit of history However, when Haruko shows up on her first day as a Japanese language teacher she discovers that the school is for foreign students learning Japanese. He gives her a textbook which is for elementary school students. However, he asks that Haruko works at a private school for three months before working at a public school. Haruko Kano ( Riisa Naka) meets an old high school teacher who suggests that Haruko would make a good Japanese language teacher and offers to help her get a job at a public school. Whilst the drama version is based on the original comics, the main character Haruko has been involved in more problems with the teachers and students than in the comics.
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In addition, it has also been published in Traditional Chinese in the Republic of China.įrom Juntil September 30, every Thursday night, the TV drama The Japanese That The Japanese Don't Know aired on Yomiuri TV (every Thursday from 23:58 until 24:38). Outside of Japan, it has been published in the Korean language from the original source material in the Republic of Korea. This is backed by a story of a Japanese teacher at a Japanese language school who frequently gets involved in scenarios with her eccentric students.
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The Japanese That The Japanese Don't Know is an episodic series revolving around elements of the Japanese language such as word origins and proper uses. It has also spawned a live action drama which aired on Yomiuri TV. There have been four paperback volumes as of August, 2013. It discusses the background of Japanese words and speech. The Japanese That The Japanese Don't Know ( Japanese: 日本人の知らない日本語, Hepburn: Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo) is a manga and television series about a Japanese teacher and her students written by Takayuki Tomita and Umino Nagiko.
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