Learn To Speak Japanese

The Japanese language or Nihongo is spoken by over 130 million people, in Japan and by Japanese living in Japanese emigrant communities worldwide.

The Japanese language is heavily influenced by the traditional hierarchic system that defines the Japanese culture. A complex system of honorifics differenciations with verb forms and a particular vocabulary is used to indicate the relative status of speaker, listener or the person mentioned in conversations.

The Japanese Alphabet

The Japanese language is written with a combination of three different types of scripts: Chinese characters, kanji, and two syllabic scripts, hiragana and katakana. The Latin alphabet, romaji, is also often used in modern Japanese, mostly for company names and logos as well as advertising. Romaji is also used when writing Japanese with a computer. Western style Arabic numerals are generally used for numbers - the same importance have the traditional Sino-Japanese numerals.

The Japanese vocabulary has been heavily influenced by words from other languages. Many words were borrowed from Chinese, or created from Chinese models. Recently, Japanese has also borrowed a considerable number of words from European languages, mainly English. Because of the special trade relationship between Japan and Holland in the 17th century, Dutch has also been influential, with words like birru (from "bier" ("beer")) and kohi (from "koffie" ("coffee")).

Using Japanese audios can be a great help in learning to speak Japanese fast. Speaking Japanese is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance, especially because with a good instruction on how lo learn Japanese you van get started systematically.

There are learn to speak Japanese books, and there are great audiobooks that teach you an easy way to learn to speak Nihongo.

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