Japanese Language

Japanese Language

Better Japanese-English Translation Tool Than Google Translate

Don’t you have a problem if you don’t understand the meaning even if you use Google Translate to translate into English? Recently, there is a better translation tool that utilizes AI, based on research results from National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). It’s called Mirai Translate, and you can check it out here. It’s a Japanese page, but it’s easy to use. Paste the text you want to translate into the form at the bottom left. Select the source language in the left-hand drop-down (“原文言語”). Select the target language in the right-hand drop-down (“訳文言語”). And then, click the “翻訳”(Translate) button. TIP: Japanese is “日本語” and English is “英語”

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Japanese Language

Reasons Why Learning Japanese is Difficult

If you are interested in Japanese culture, you might want to use Japanese. But in conclusion, learning Japanese is very difficult. Not only Japanese and English have completely different cultures and grammars, but Japanese has a lot of characters to remember. Even Japanese people need 9 years of education from elementary school to junior high school to learn the common kanji (2,136 characters). Before you can learn as many kanji as you do in Chinese, you must also learn hiragana and katakana (about 50 characters, respectively). As introduced on the following article, Japanese is one of the most difficult languages for English speakers. WHAT’S THE HARDEST LANGUAGE TO LEARN? That

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