Irish company Wukomi Media has released an iPad and iPhone app that uses humourous, graphical associations to teach users the Japanese Hiragana writing system. The inspiration for creating the Dr Moku ...
Yes, it’s true. Japanese has three completely separate sets of characters, called kanji, hiragana, and katakana, that are used in reading and writing. That first rendering of “Tokyo” is in kanji, with ...
Quill & Quire: Nimbus scores English rights to biography of Anne of Green Gables’s Japanese translator
As popular as Anne of Green Gables is in Japan, the novel’s Japanese translator, Hanako Muraoka, has a following in her own right. Nimbus Publishing has announced an English translation of her ...
Nimbus scores English rights to biography of Anne of Green Gables’s Japanese translator
The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand for ...
Get started with reading Japanese by learning hiragana. Knowing this essential script lets learners take their first steps of recognition in a Japanese-language environment. As a foreign learner, it ...
Q&A for students, teachers, and linguists wanting to discuss the finer points of the Japanese language
Japan Today: Why does Japanese writing need three different sets of characters?
OpenAI has quietly launched ChatGPT Translate, a translation site that uses ChatGPT. In addition to supporting Japanese translation, it also has a feature that allows users to request translation and ...
The Mainichi: Easy Japanese news in translation: Speed skater Miho Takagi retires