Country Region Distribution
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Japan East Asia 99.1 %
United States North America 0.2 %
Brazil South America 0.2 %
Guam Micronesia 2.0 %
What is Japanese speaking?
Japanese (Nihongo, 日本語) belongs to the Japonic language family. It is spoken as a first language by 122 million and as a second language by over 1 million people in Japan.
Is Japanese phonetic?
Modern Japanese is written in a mixture of three basic scripts: Kanji — which are Chinese ideographic symbols — as well as Hiragana and Katakana — two phonetic alphabets (syllables). There are a few thousand Kanji characters, while Hiragana and Katakana have 46 each.Mar 6, 2012
How can I practice Japanese?
- Think in Japanese.
- Subscribe to Japanese Twitter Accounts.
- Watch Japanese YouTubers.
- Download Japanese learning apps.
- Read webtoons or Doujin.
- Keep a two-line journal.
Is English easy for Japanese people?
In fact, while Japan has the most foreigners teaching English in the world and English is taught at school from the 3rd grade, the average TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) score of a Japanese student is ranked disastrously low at 35 out of 36 countries in Asia. ...
What is the hardest language to learn for Japanese speakers?
The hardest language for Japanese speakers is reportedly English, because of there many differences. First of all, they belong to entirely different language families. English is an Indo-European language while Japanese is a Ural-Altaic language.
Is it harder for English speakers to learn Japanese or Japanese speakers to learn English?
If you are a native speaker of English, learning Japanese can seem like an ambitious endeavor. In fact, the US Foreign Service Institute considers Japanese to be one of the most difficult languages to learn for an English speaker (along with Arabic, Chinese, and Korean).
What is the top 10 most spoken language in the world?
- English (1,132 million speakers) ...
- Mandarin Chinese (1,117 million speakers) ...
- Hindi (615 million speakers) ...
- Spanish (534 million speakers) ...
- Arabic (274 million speakers) ...
- Bangla/Bengali (265 million speakers) ...
- Russian (258 million speakers) ...
- Portuguese (234 million speakers)
How many L2 Japanese speakers are there?
Language
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126.3 million
121,500
126 million