To the team:
This may be the wrong section, but I could not think of a better one.
please change the place, if necessary.
This is a bit difficult to explain, but I was wondering, what non-Japanese feel or hear, when they hear the Japanese language.
I do not mean, the translation or meaning of the words, just the impresion, that you get, by hearing it.
You can compare it with music, or dance, pace, colour, element, temperature, whatever appears in your mind.
Also, you can compare it with other languages, that you have heard, if that makes it easier.
For me, the japanese language has often woken up images of clapping wood, kind of percussiv thus, and more in the middle of whatsoever, decent, but strong, also a scent of wood comes very often with this. Water can be seen, but not felt in the language, its not so flowing. Alltogether quite nice, actually.
While Chinese is much more high in the air in general for me, also more like on higher heels, and I see many birds and flowers, scents of those too. Alltogether softer, thinner, brighter colours, a bit transparent even at times, but not powerless at all, but more playfull.
Compared with this, the Korean language comes from deep out of the stomack or even deeper down, is more like a earthy and healthy root, and directly earth or even under the earth, and rolls along, pretty round and kind of dark velvet reddish, more booty.
This is just my very personal perception, maybe yours is entirely different and you might prefer to compare it with your own language.
So, now, how and what do you feel or see about spoken Japanese language?
(its Ok, if you cannot yet understand the words, maybe thats even more interesting)
This may be the wrong section, but I could not think of a better one.
please change the place, if necessary.
This is a bit difficult to explain, but I was wondering, what non-Japanese feel or hear, when they hear the Japanese language.
I do not mean, the translation or meaning of the words, just the impresion, that you get, by hearing it.
You can compare it with music, or dance, pace, colour, element, temperature, whatever appears in your mind.
Also, you can compare it with other languages, that you have heard, if that makes it easier.
For me, the japanese language has often woken up images of clapping wood, kind of percussiv thus, and more in the middle of whatsoever, decent, but strong, also a scent of wood comes very often with this. Water can be seen, but not felt in the language, its not so flowing. Alltogether quite nice, actually.
While Chinese is much more high in the air in general for me, also more like on higher heels, and I see many birds and flowers, scents of those too. Alltogether softer, thinner, brighter colours, a bit transparent even at times, but not powerless at all, but more playfull.
Compared with this, the Korean language comes from deep out of the stomack or even deeper down, is more like a earthy and healthy root, and directly earth or even under the earth, and rolls along, pretty round and kind of dark velvet reddish, more booty.
This is just my very personal perception, maybe yours is entirely different and you might prefer to compare it with your own language.
So, now, how and what do you feel or see about spoken Japanese language?
(its Ok, if you cannot yet understand the words, maybe thats even more interesting)