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Several years ago, there was a channel where I enjoyed watching different programs in both Filipino and Japanese. One of these are the two series of Let's Learn Japanese. I remember that I always wait for its time slot. When it is time for the program, I always take down notes. Since it was quite a

Dôshi (or doushi if we will follow どうし, 動詞) in Japanese means verb. The two kanji we have here means motion and part of speech respectively. It is highly complex just like Greek, Latin, Sanskrit and Korean verbs. It ranges from extremely rude tenses to extremely polite ones. It has both casual and f

An ophthalmologist born to a Russian father and a Yiddish mother invented a constructed language called 'Esperanto'. From the language itself, Esperanto means one who hopes. L. L. Zamenhof aimed to create an easy to learn and politically neutral language that would serve as a universal second langua

Awhile ago, I posted about the Han Chinese characters which list seems to be endless with so many forms and style. Now, I will share you, guys, about another form of Han writing. But this time, it is the Korean (or Han which probably was a coincidence) alphabet or better yet a syllabary.

A blizzard of complicated characters is what I see whenever I browse east Asian literatures. Hanzi, hanja, kanji or whatever name people call this set of characters, it is all the same. It may have variations, simplifications or locally added (invented) characters, it is still the same.