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Originally Posted by Harold
Ugh.. that's one of the things I don't get about Japanese: So many words for one thing (人、者、and 方). Well, depending on the language you're coming from, RA, RI, RU, RE, and RO are pretty close. I know that, in Spanish, the Rs are close. The English R is just an ugly letter.
I'm glad that my mom made me bilingual with Spanish.. It gives an advantage to Japanese vowel pronunciation over a regular English speaker.  |
And English doesn't have a lot of words for the same thing?
"Let's meet up." "Let's get together." "Let's catch up." "Let's hang out."
It drives Japanese people just as crazy. Everything is "up" "down" "out" "in"...
I think it's easier for us learning Japanese than the other way around.