日本 Rìběn

MexicoBob
 October 11, 2007, 06:38 PM posted in General Discussion

This is a link to a blog by Aaron and Danielle Reiner:

<a href="http://thereiners.net/">The Reiners Blog </a>

http://thereiners.net/

 

They are a teaching couple from the United States who are currently in Japan teaching English. Their blog reminds me of John Pasden's great blog, “Sinosplice”, and I thought John and changye and others with cross cultural interests involving both China & Japan might relate to their experiences. I find that by reading the Chinese characters on the Japanese signs I get a clue as to what they might be saying.

 

 

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John
 October 13, 2007, 10:34 AM

Thanks for the compliment and the recommendation!

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hitokiri6993
 April 28, 2008, 05:02 PM

Hi Mexicobob! I once had a Japanese friend who taught me some 新字體...新字體 are 簡體字 with completely different strokes.... It tends to get confusing when trying to understand them through their characters. For example: 龍 in Japan is written as 竜 廣 as 広 澀 as 渋 etc. So, I have to tell him to write in 舊字體（繁體字） sometimes. Well that's my experience with the Japanese language.