Category: Language

  • Interesting language facts …

    What Hiragana does? pa/ba/ha are the same letter with the degeneracy accomodated by only a dot or 2-small-strokes. There are 3 set pa/ba/ha why look at the maths, there are only 2 extra symbols as one of the 3 does not need any symbol. 3 sets produce 15 characters as there are a combination of…

  • My Hiragana

    Last night and today morning in a few hours [about 3-4 hrs] I learned the complete chart for “Hiragana” from a book called “Nihongo kantan” by Kiyo Saka and his…ako Yoshiki by Kenkyusha … this involved 50 pages, new words and no english help, just recognizing hiragana by itself , from the chart. What helped…

  • Language and Elitism

    Academic bigots have now unilaterally occupied Google Transliteration [to prove their supremacy] I observed this less than a year ago and gradually your options to type a non-native word by using Roman script has been reduced to 1. The one they want you to use which if you study closely has no reason behind it…

  • my ways or highways

    Since they saw me frequently, going by taxis to KEK bus station and flying off they queried for how long I am gonna be gone and when I am coming back and so on; that was the point when I learned by the prinicple of practical needs the timing vocabulary of Japanese. I am gonna…

  • full moon big pot and square teacher

    I will make a blog post for something I said on facebook as people there are always coaxing me to write longer pieces not on facebook. It is a kind of social etiquette I wouldn’t like, not because I am a dropper but for the reason of how I am inspired. I am not inspired…