Kanji

skill. Also, Japanese 1110 is the simplest course, so there is no need to worry about having no contact with Japanese or not knowing Japan at all. In class, teacher will explain the special letter in Japan, which called the “HIRAGANA”, “KATAKANA” and “KANJI”, in this process, students will learn the relationship between the European language system and the Japanese language system. To know a country’s culture, the most important thing that everybody should know is its language.…

example “ß” is supposed to sound similar to two “S’s” (SS, or esstsett), and in the german alphabet “V” sound similar to the letter “F” and “W” sounds like the letter “V”. Japanese is written in two 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…

According to Garcia, at school and in collage, “They tend to be satisfied with established rules, following the set path without making life difficult for themselves, instead of seeking to be original or creating new ideas”. (Garcia, 43) Garcia called this as “super-specialized”. (43) Japanese character is very unique compared to American. Here is summary of chapter 3, ‘the unique Japanese character’. Honne and Tatemae is important elements to describe and understand Japanese. Tatemae is…

friendliness and financial comprehension. In this way, the idea of 'enthusiastic knowledge' incorporates self-passionate intelligence, intrapersonal improvement, interpersonal insight and social insight within a psychosocial framework (Chopra, Parvesh, Kanji, Gopal,…

service patch, along with birth and death dates, and an insignia indicating service during WWII. In fact, a deeply personal tattoo that reads Ary is an inked reminder of a daughter taken before her time. The tattoo, in simple black ink, including the kanji for daughter, holds a depth of emotion regardless…

During the medieval era of Japan, there were two distinct types of warriors. These are the Samurai and the Shinobi. How does the lifestyle of a Samurai compare to that of a Shinobi? Both types of warriors had advantages and disadvantages when it came to their lifestyles and fighting techniques. The two types of warriors also have a long history and have evolved over time. The life of a samurai was a life full of dedication. Everyday living his life to sever his master. Samurai were to live…

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone.” is a famous saying Paul Cézanne wrote for the next generation (Wikipedia, Paul Cézanne 2015). Without him, we can not talk about Picasso or Matisse because he was the one to have moved on from impressionism to post-impressionism and broke classic styles of art forms to lead the next generation into modern art. First of all Cézanne took away the idea to take the light transition into a drawing. Day and night, by minutes and hours, with the…

If you look up the definition of a tattoo online you won’t see much on what they clearly are. All you are told is that it is a strong knocking or pulsation, and that is correct. It is the act of “tapping” ink into a person's skin. However, there are many different styles of tattooing all around the world. Places like New Zealand and Japan try to preserve the tradition of tattooing by not using the advanced machinery that is offered. In Japan, tattooing is considered to be taboo. There’s a wide…

very familiar with, is an automobile dealer group called Weins Canada, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Weins Group in Japan. The company got its start in 1956 with its first dealership network, called Yokohama Toyopet. The company’s founder, Kanji Miyahara Sr., saw an opportunity to diversify and, potentially, to add exponential growth in profit to his company by opening a Toyota franchise in Canada. So, in 1973, and working closely with Toyota Canada, Don Valley North Toyota began…

as animals, food and drinks, celebrations, human activities, and many more. They made a modern digital image of these things. According to Sternbergh (2014), these characters were inspired by some of the creator’s childhood experiences, including kanji, Japanese borrowed characters from written Chinese, and manga which are Japanese comic books. Robb (2014) asserts that the idea behind Emoji is actually quite old because according to her, the pictographic hieroglyphs and cuneiform inscriptions…