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Originally Posted by jesselt
I suppose it depends on the teacher, but in my experience everything is written and read horizontally. Writing and reading vertically comes in the higher level classes. Odd, isn't it?
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Yeah, it is. I cannot help but wonder how smoothly that sudden switch from horizontal to vertical would go.
Teacher: "Class, there's something I've been trying so hard not to tell you but I suppose I can't hide it forever. Um, please brace yourselves and don't shoot me. Contrary to what I may have lead you to believe during the last couple of years, Japanese is officially a vertically-written language. You will
not find any newspapers, novels, magazines or even the lines in manga written horizontally in Japan."