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Japanese "Borrowed Words" - 01-20-2008, 07:03 AM

A lot of Japanese words are "borrowed" from other languages, and they can't be written as hiragana, only katakana.

And I don't know how to right things like "vo" or "fi" or even if they have them.

Please help?


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01-20-2008, 09:14 PM

Oh, I get it, and for the "v" syllables, can it be va vi vu ve and vo?


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01-20-2008, 09:20 PM

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Oh, I get it, and for the "v" syllables, can it be va vi vu ve and vo?
I tried to type va vi vu ve vo as u said , it came out like this : ヴァ、ヴィ、ヴ、ヴェ、ヴォ。


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01-20-2008, 09:22 PM

Cool. Thank you!!

Sorry.

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