my2cents » Japanese http://www.frightanic.com "The Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road" - Karen Blixen Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:13:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Japanese is easy http://www.frightanic.com/2008/10/05/japanese-is-easy/ http://www.frightanic.com/2008/10/05/japanese-is-easy/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:13:34 +0000 frightanic http://frightanic.wordpress.com/?p=133 The title is misleading I admit, it should rather read “Japanese is easy – sometimes”. I’m currently swoting kanji for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test JLPT. Every now and then I come across a kanji combination that is so logical that it’s startling.

Example: what do you do when you feel dizzy – chances are you roll your eyes. In Japanese 目が回る = dizzy. 目 stands for eye, が is the topic/subject marker, and 回 plus る mean to turn around, rotate, revolve. Easy and obvious, isn’t it ;-) .

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