i want to learn japanese but i cant understand the alphabet :((( *** Dear Anonymous Would-be Otaku, First the good news: no need to beat yourself up for not getting the Japanese alphabet – there ain’t one! So no worries there. Now the less-god news: there are two syllabaries and a whole slew of logograms […]
Dear Language Nerd, What exactly is onomatopoeia? From Anna *** Dear Anna, First off, onomatopoeia is one the very few words in English spelled with four vowels in a row (there are none with all five, sadly). Second and more usefully, onomatopoeia is words that represent real-world sounds. Does this blow your mind? Give it […]