Overview of Japanese Language

This post, I am going to summarize a bit regarding the Japanese language, the Malaysian way. Japanese language was from the Japonic language family back to 2,700 years ago. There are 126million people speaks Japanese, which rank it to top 13 rank in the most speaks language in the list. It was said that the language once include the Chinese character around 1,200 years ago and slowly developed to the modern language itself. Though there are 40% of the language involving Chinese character, which we will discuss later. Based on a Japanese learner research conducted by Japan Foundation, there are currently more than 30 Japanese language schools as listed on the Japan Foundation website, which in year 2018, it was recorded in Malaysia - 212 organization that provides Japanese Study, -with about 40,000 learners, -taught by 485 native and local Japanese teachers. Overall, we can see a number of 26,000 Japanese currently stays in Malaysia for different purposes, which includes Malaysia My Second Home Plan (MM2H), expatriate that works in Malaysia, spouse or child of the expatriate and Malaysian, and tourism. With over 1,400 Japanese enterprises recorded in Malaysia, it further proved that the needs of Japanese language to help boost the industries in Malaysia. As mentioned above, Japanese language can be broken down to 4 categories 1- Hiragana(あいうえお)- Local Japanese words, handwriting system can be identified as more curvy 2- Katakana(アイウエオ)- Imported word which transformed to be as Japanese word, with Japanese pronunciation. handwriting system can be identified as more square. 3- Kanji(漢字)- Chinese character, which same exactly the same as Chinese language, or some still remain as ancient Chinese character, which now no more being used in Chinese language. 4-Romaji(A,I,U,E,O)- Romanized spelling that used to represent the Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji pronunciation. Example of above 1. あさ Hiragana writing of "Morning" in Japanese local word 2.モーニング the word "Morning" in English(imported word) 3.朝 Kanji of "Morning" 4. a. ASA Romaji pronunciation of "Morning" Japanese in local word b. MOO-NING-GU Romaji pronunciation of "Morning" for imported word Again for the category 1 and 2, there are constructed as below by what we called 五十音順・ごじゅうおんじゅん・GOJYUUONJYUN, which means 50 pronunciation characters. To be exact, it consists 46 characters in Modern Japanese Language as below 5 singular vowels (A, I, U, E, O), pronounced similar as Army(A--), Indigo(I--), Uber(U--), Elephant(E--), Orange(O--) 40 consonant vowel union- Which consist of (K,S,T,N,H,M,Y,R,W- prefix that will then combine with 5 singular vowels to be form one pronunciation)eg: KA, KI, KU, KE,KO 1 singular consonant (N), Pronounced as ending sound for N and M, which similar as Hmm For Hiragana, you can refer to the video which I created long ago.

Next sharing, we shall talk more about the Hiragana and Katakana, writing, pronunciation, with some vocabulary with combination of Hiragana character. See you next! Jya mata.

Learn Japanese Language In Malaysia

For what so ever reason, you have started to get interest to learning Japanese language. With zero knowledge, it is no where to kick start the learning process so you have started to google some keywords such as "Japanese Language Tuition in Malaysia" "Learn Japanese in Malaysia for beginner" "Basic Japanese course" ETC.. Yes the Google returned thousands of result, but did you get what you really want after all the clickings? There might be tuition centre offering a language course over the term of 6 months, online tutoring, online web which offers interactive software for learning, amateur/professional websites, you name it. I had experienced the same for all the above when I started to attend Japanese language class during my university time. There's a bit about me. I have taken Japanese language course during my three year bachelor degree study in local university in Malaysia. The course earn you a 2 credit hours once you have successfully completed the 3 semesters study. Learning from zero was tough, but I managed to pass the examination with flying colours. In between, my Japanese language lecturer (we called him "sensei", teacher in Japanese) offers a voluntary Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) class to us who are interested. To sit for an international recognized examination was not easy, what more to pass with good marks. But I managed to pass with good result and was recommended to participate in a six-weeks exchange program held in Osaka, Japan, organized by The Japan Foundation. Upon returning to Malaysia, I have started to assist my sensei to be the Japanese tutor for my university for 2 years. Finishing his visa term in Malaysia, he has decided to go back to Japan, and I also resigned and entering the industry. Three companies that I have worked required my Japanese skills, as I was dealing with Japanese counterparts and colleagues. Doing a fulltime job, I was also offering private tutoring for about a year. My current job position required both conversation and writing skills. Enough for abit of myself, which my purpose is to let you know that with the Japanese language skills, it allows you to enter a new high level, which you have more job offers from different industries, and you make the call which to go. This blog, I will guide you with some basic knowledge of Japanese, step-by-step, Free Of Charge, of course. When you feel that you wish to further the learning, then you can go for a paid one. In the next writing, I will touch a bit the overview of Japanese Language. Stay tune.