Hello everybody, I have a question.
I want to say "My major is chemistry" but not "My major is science"
But 化学 and 科学 have the same hiragana かがく
If I said:
私はかがくを専攻している学生です。
How people can distinguish 化学 and 科学 in spoken japanese?
Thanks you!
Hello everybody, I have a question.
I want to say "My major is chemistry" but not "My major is science"
But 化学 and 科学 have the same hiragana かがく
If I said:
私はかがくを専攻している学生です。
How people can distinguish 化学 and 科学 in spoken japanese?
Thanks you!
They are both "kagaku" when the difference can be picked by context. However, it is very difficult to differentiate that way, people deliberately refer to chemistry as "bake-gaku" from the kanji used.
If you say: 私はかがくを専攻している学生です, I'm pretty sure many people will know it's "chemistry" by context.
The same happens to 私立 and 市立 both read "shiritsu."
To differentiate, the first sometimes is read "watakushiritsu" and the second read "ichiritsu."