The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

Move the pointer over the row and column headings to see descriptions of the manners and places of articulation. Then click on the IPA symbols for each English sound to open a popup window with sample ...

10 revealing facts about Japanese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Japanese with audio.

Hangul is an alphabet. That is, each letter corresponds to what linguists refer to as a phoneme—essentially just an individual sound (a vowel or consonant). This differs from other writing systems, ...

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to identify ADAM. The "L" sound used in the English language doesn't exist in the Japanese phonetic alphabet, which makes "La ...

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Alphabet International, a provider of business mobility solutions and a part of the BMW Group, has appointed Jesper Lyndberg as its new CEO. Previously holding the position of BMW Financial ...