Unique in japanese!!!
Hello, Today we are going to talk about the unique things in Japanese. The question is unique sounds in Japanese but there are not really unique sounds in the language of Japanese.
In Japanese there are lots of sounds that are like... "BANG!!!" In Japanese, BANG is BAN. If we say "BAN!!" to a Japanese they are like "what happened??" And when we say BANG to a Japanese,
they are like... they don't care. Also, SMASH is a word like bang. In Japanese, Smash is Sumasshu. In Japanese, the letter N can be used alone in a sentence. That is a unique sound in Japanese. N is only one letter like i told you. But, to say or write it, we have to put Desu at the end. N Desu (ん です) means Is not. De wa arimasen is another word for "is not" in Japanese. (ではありません.) Oh, and also, I asked my Japanese teacher and she said that N Desu can NOT be used by itself!!! You can say it with something like Neru before it. Neru means sleep. I think I believe my Japanese teacher more but the website is good too....
So like I told you we have to put Neru before. (you say it when something happens like: Your mom asks you what are you doing.. you say I am sleeping: Neru N Desu.) Even if that is unique, the Japanese people don't always say it.
Also, the Japanese, in japanese, say the "r" almost like a "L". It is more like a Spanish are... so that means that is really unique. I think it is only japanese and Spanish that speak it. Japanese people think it is hard to say the english R and L because there is no R and L in Japanese. (they don't pronounce the L, R like english people do.) Also, what I think is weird, (but not especially Unique) is that Shintaro (one of my class mates), Says "Mr. Len" "Mr.Ren." BUt not Hana!!! (Hana is another of my Japanese class mate.) Well, I think that is all the Unique sounds in Japanese.... So.....................
See you on the next page!!!
(For your information) :(N Desu can NOT be used by itself!!! You can say it with something like Neru before it. Neru means
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_sound_symbolism
http://japanese.about.com/blqow24.htm
http://japanese.about.com/blqow13.htm