Vol.4:Characteristic of Japanese language

Hi,
Today let me talk about Japanese language.

At first, origin of Japanese is from China.
Our ancient have developed our language consulted by Chinese language.

We use 3 types of characters, we call them Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana.
Let me explain about them.
According to one estimate, there are over100,000 characters in Kanji.
But of course we can't use so many,  We use 3,000 characters.
And we have to learn about 2,000 characters until graduation of high school.

Hiragana and Katakana has 50 characters of each. They are different shape, but have same pronunciation.
So we combine 3 kinds of character.
Maybe Japanese is one of unique language in the world.

Also let me explain the characteristic of grammar.
I think Japanese grammar is more flexible than English.
Because English has positioning rules of the words, but Japanese also has positioning rules, but includes flexibility.
I guess the flexibility makes Japanese to feel difficult to learn English.


Please feel free to ask me in the comment area if you have a questions.

See you!