Onomatopoeia: Meditating With Celery : 精神統一編
Posted on Sep 23rd 2009, 08:42 // 347 views // 0 comments

In this Episode of Chad Mullane's Onomatopoeia Series for Japanese learners, we'll look a calming ourselves and our souls with the help of some talking celery.

Haven't run away after the mention of talking celery? That's good -- let's continue.

Japanese has many more variations of onomatopoeia than in English, and they are much more commonly used in speech and writing.

However, they also have to downside that many can seem very similar to non-native speakers, and a simple change from か to が can change the entire meaning of the word.

 

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Tags: 日本語講座  Chad Mullane  Video  Manzai 
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