10 revealing facts about Japanese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Japanese with audio.

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Hangul is an alphabet. That is, each letter corresponds to what linguists refer to as a phoneme—essentially just an individual sound (a vowel or consonant). This differs from other writing systems, ...

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The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

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Members of Google Japan Union, which several dozens of employees of Google’s Japanese arm founded last ... a U.S. company called Alphabet Inc., announced in January that it would cut jobs ...

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