What Does "Anime" Mean? Anime refers to and is short for animēshiyon, from the English "animation." The first time anyone called it that, it was 1985. Before then, "Japanimation" was the term throughout the 1970s and 1980s. 'Princess Mononoke'Credit: Studio Ghibli What Are Animes?
they are not normally used when saying the date. They are written in a Japanese calendar, sometimes, along with the modern names. The old names are also used in poems or novels. Of the 12 months,yayoi(March),satsuki (May
While modern American English makes frequent use of "I love you," the phrase is not used as often in Japan. They are more likely to use suki desu, 好きです meaning to like, rather than speaking openly of love. What is Kanji? Kanji is one of the three writing systems for the Japanes...
2.What does the underlined word “separately” mean in this passage? A.含糊地 B.快快地 C.分开地 3.How many differences has the writer told US between American English and British English? A.Three. B.Four. C.Five. 4.Which sentence is Not right? A.Many expressions are different between...
We've got the moshi moshi vocab down pat. Use it on the phone and sometimes elsewhere. But why say it at all? Why not say "konnichiwa" or one of the other forms of hello in Japanese? Why does the telephone get its own special hello?
Kat: 駅 (eki) is station, に (ni) here is a particle here that indicates destination. It's like "to" in English. So 駅に行く (eki ni iku) means "I'm going to the station." So if I see Naomi-sensei, leaving and I ask her, Naomi-sensei, where are you going?