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Contractions

Posted 2 years ago by hiddenjapanese

As you might know, English has a lot of contractions.  It’s a way of shortening words.  So, for example, “I am” becomes “I’m”, and “They have” becomes “they’ve”.  So, why,

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Rules for Consonant Voicing (Handaku)

Posted 4 years ago by hiddenjapanese

One of the greatest frustrations that new language learners may have with Japanese is the seeming incomprehensibility of the way that Japanese kanji or counters can be modified.  We’ve already

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