Hiragana

Figure 5: An example of the Japanese Hiragana confuser in a quiz. CertificatesConfuser.PNG Figure 6: An example of the Japanese Kanji confuser in a quiz. Tracking Progress When learning a language, students want to know how much they’ve learned. There’s no one better to ask how much a user knows than the user itself, so naturally the progress that a user has made on a deck is based on the difficulty that they have given to each card in it. Calculating Progress for students When a student selects a difficulty, what’s really happening is that the student is getting a number of points for a particular card. The points are as follows:…

“alphabetic” writing system. Chinese and English use a “logographic” writing system. English and Chinese use an “alphabetic” writing system. Chinese uses a “logographic” writing system. 通し番号01-040: Classroom instruction (80-90 words) (Narrator): Listen to a college linguistics professor talk to a class. (Man/Woman): Last week, we talked about “logographic” and “alphabetic” writing systems. Let’s review quickly. In “logographic” systems, each letter represents a word or a concept. In…

Although three different types of calligraphy was discussed, there are other types calligraphy and other places they originate from. The development of calligraphy can be explained through its origin, diffusion, and diverse style. Chinese calligraphy started in China during the Zhou Dynasty and throughout this time period, a writing style called “great seal” was formed. As times goes on, the style gets modified to “small seal” style then to “regular style.” Japanese calligraphy developed because…

human biology. This issue of age is often just a consequence of longitudinal study and when the participants are mentally and physically healthy. An exemplary study by Akamatsu (1998) details the orthographic effects of Japanese L1 on reading in English L2. In this case, the L2 is only English as a foreign language (EFL). The main issue in this study is the duration of two Japanese orthographies, not the age. For example, Kanji especially contribute heavily to the lengthy acquisition, and…

The country Japan is off the east coast of main land Asia neighboring the Pacific Ocean. It is also known as “the land of the rising sun” or simply “Nippon.” It has very mountainous terrain and Archipelago Island, offers lush forest, hot springs and active volcanoes, and the most notable Mountain is Mount Fuji. Many small kingdoms came to together to united around the capital Nara; around the 4th and 8th centuries. Around this period, agriculture improved dramatically and adopted new ideas from…

skill check. Everyone studies seriously, which pay attention to the class and hard working. The way that the teacher teaching is helping the student. Learning the language of different countries is another country is both interesting and hard things. The Japanese 1110 class starting in the autumn of 2017, the student will meet twice a week on Monday and Wednesday except the lab on Thursday, basically is the foundation of all Japanese classes which is focus on the development of communication,…

different writing systems, neither alphabetic. The kanji system derived from the Chinese, it uses characters that correspond directly to words that were pronounced either in Japanese or as they would be in Chinese, but most of the character are Homonyms, words that sound similar and written the same way, or they have homographs, same spelling but has a different pronunciation. Although the Japanese didn’t have its own system of writing to begin with until katakana, a single unit that is…

(KOICHI ,2010) Japanese have used Chinese characters in writing system for a long time, there are differences between Japanese and Chinese language culture. Apart from using Chinese character, Japan also use Hiragana and Katakana to write. To compare with Japan, Hong Kong people mainly use Chinese characters for writing. Pronunciations of Japanese and Chinese are also different, some Japanese single words enunciate polysyllabic, Chinese words only enunciate monosyllabic, in particular, Chinese…

After envoy monk Kūkai back to Japan, he created one of the first language in japan which was called hiragana. The architecture of China was brought to Japan by the monks and envoys to. Until now we still can see some old temple in japan are looking similar to some Chinese temple. Monk Jian Zhen, Kūkai and so many envoys or monks, when they visited japan or back to japan, they bring a lot construction technology to japan and built a lot building. Based on this building style, Japanese had…

Tsugu Akihito and wife Michiko, holds almost no power and perform only ceremonial acts “such as the tea ceremony and presenting awards” (Government). Japan’s government advocates their rigorous schooling process because the students will become the country’s future leaders. The Japanese language and education system do not fall short of expectations. The spoken communication of Japan has a simple rhythm with logical and regular grammar (Whyte 28). In spoken Japanese, the many subtleties, such as…