Seven Reasons for Believing That Japanese is not A Difficult Language
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概要
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1. Most of the diphthongs and vague vowels have disappeared in modern Japanese. Modern Japanese vowels are articulated in the front of the mouth and are in consequence very clear. 2. Japanese lacks masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns. Articles do not differ according to the gender of the noun. Japanese does not possess a singular-plural distinction. 3. Japanese possesses only a present and a past tense. The conjugations of the verbs are very regular, and there are in modern Japanese only two irregular verbs. 4. To form a question, it is only necessary to add the particle "ka" at the end of the sentence, without any change in word order. 5. To modify a noun by a verb, an adjeclive, or another noun, it is only necessary to place the dictionary form before the relevant noun. 6. Japanese has only 3 basic sentence patterns. 7. Connecting one noun to another, one can simply go on as the words come into one's minds, using the particle "no". And verbs also can connect each other in "te" form.
- 桃山学院大学の論文
- 1993-02-25