Chinese...NO! Japanese~

This characters are kanjis, read and you will know what it's :)

Hello everyone~!

How are you today? I’m sooo sleepy, I would like to be the sleeping beauty and sleep for 100 years… or until I can’t be tired anymore!

Whatever, sure you were surprised when you see that image, maybe you tought “What’s that?!” “Is that a Chinese word?”… well, no. What you saw there was “Japanese”, that’s te topic for today.

When I was just a little child, my parents went to work everyday so I used to be alone in home, I loved watching tv’s programs, like Doraemon, Digimon, Pokemon, Sakura Card Captor, Conan  Detective, Dragon Ball, Magic Knight Rayearth, etc. Because of that nowadays I love drawing anime’s style, watching anime or doramas (soap opera), and… learning japanese.
I’ve watched anime a lot, that’s why japanse isn’t difficult for me. One day I released I could understand a little of what the characters were saying (I was watching that episode without subtitles because I couldn’t wait for them)… I felt so proud of myself, I was so happy x’DDDDD
So I started looking for webs which could teach me a little of japanese (Here is a good one: http://marcjapan.wordpress.com/) and then… I found someone, a Japanese sir who could teach me the language face to face! I miss him very much now, because he lives in Temuco, and now I’m living here in Santiago because I’m studying here :c

But, what I’m going to tell you is something very simple. I’ll explain you about the tree Japanese’s alphabets.

The first alphabet which Japaneses learn is Hiragana. To me, this is very simple and cute.

The second alphabet is the same but it is used for foreing words, I don’t like it because it’s ugly (though I know it all). Lately it’s also used when people want to resalt a name or a word in japanese, in eneglish, for example, small letter is hiragana and capital letter is katakana (without using a foreing word): “I really LOVE ice cream!”

And, at least we can find Kanjis, they are Chinese characters (that’s why a lot of people says it’s Chinese), and Japaneses uses it because they can write more in less space. Kanjis can be writen in hiragana and katakana, but it is like wasting time, look:

Word: Enjoy.

Hiragana: たのしむ
Katakana: (I can’t find the characters, but they take up the same space)
Kanji: 楽しむ

Can you see? Somehow, using kanji is economic. Well, I don’t like them very much because they’re really hard to learn, you just can’t do it, you have to follow steps, one by one just in one way. I think a lot of kanjis are really beautiful, but when I have to write them I stop thinking they’re like that. Even so, there are some kanjis which are really easy to draw, for example “day” is “日”.

I think that’s all today, I wrote a lot! Sorry, it's hard trying to explain this as easy as I can. Did you understand something? XD


Have a nice day!!