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This will be a relatively short section, just enough to give you all a basic overview
Biohazard: It supposed to help all the people, it supposed to make them happy, but we got to recognize it danger.
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This is the license plate equivalent to that deuce at the gym with Kanji on his arm that he thinks means something deep but actually means bald monkey balls.
This is why you cannot rely on things like Google Translate and expect to even try and communicate, at least quickly and without little confusion. I have/will elaborate on that in my car buying story.
The Japanese language is just as difikult as eanglisch baht with less hipockracy en itz ctrucher and karekikter pronounciation... After starting to learn Japanese I now have a new found respect for those that bother to learn a new language and also sympathize with those who don't.
Japanese is made up of two syllabaries and Chinese pictographs known as Kanji. There is also a fourth written language called Romaji which is used for anglicanized versions of Japanese words to aid in learning and communication of Japanese to non native speakers.
For the purposes of this forum and car parts buying the main written characters; syllabaries not alphabets to learn are Hiragana and Katakana. The latter is used to emphasize something, similar to the USE OF ALL CAPS but also used for borrowed words, mostly from english.
Some resources I definitely recommend are JapanesePod101.com and also a YouTube guy on the channel Abroad In Japan. There are also numerous books that will be mentioned in Abroad's videos that can help.
Here is a chart of those characters. The Hiragana are the squiggly ones, the Katakana are the ones you see on Sci-Fi "documentaries" when they discover "alien languages"...
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Some quick grammar (whoa nelly)
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The second hardest thing next to Kanji, for me anyway, are the counters involved. There is a different way to count different things and it makes almost no sense at all, to me...
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If you do decide to try and learn, just as we are taught english as kids, start or with bigger letters to help refine you technique. I apologize for my criminally crap penmanship.
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Language 2 by
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I also recommend not getting too excited, calm down and write what it means in English or else you'll come back to it not knowing wtf you wrote. Could be the name of your wife, or could be bald monkey balls. You don't want to guess on that.
After a while start writing them smaller and try to find words you use everyday and write them down in a notebook.
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Japanesepod101.com also has a YouTube with shortened but free lessons that can help.
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