In all of my Japanese language books when you write languages in Romaji English is the only one that is never capitalised. French is Furansugo and Chinese is Chugokugo but English is eigo and all of the books say that eigo is never capitalised why.
I have heard people say that Romaji does not exist and to learn sounds by Hiragana and Katakana and Kanji. Most books wants you to learn by Romaji. Why is this?
Sorry for the stupid questions but I don't understand.
In all of my Japanese language books when you right languages in Romaji English is the only one that is never capitlized. French is Furansugo and Chinese is Chugokugo but English is eigo and all of the books say that eigo is never capatlized why.
Hmm, I'm wondering why any of them are capitalized.
Wakaranai said:
I have heard people say that Romaji does not exist and to learn sounds by Hiragana and Katakana and Kanji. Most books wants you to learn by Romaji. Why is this?
Probably because it allows you to learn lexicon and syntax without having knowledge of the writing system. I think that it is fine when you are first starting out, but you should learn the kana as quickly as possible.
I've no idea why any of them are captalized either. Maybe they just capitalize the first letter of the ones that are written in katakana? For that, I usually see the whole word being capitalized when written in romaji to distinguish the difference from hiragana.
Sorry Elizabeth All I see is ???? Is there supposed to be Kanji there or something?
What program do I need to view it?
No it just says that English is in small caps.
I didn't realize there are capitalization rules for romaji. Most likely, it's just somebody's convention that stuck. There's no need to spend a lot of time on this issue because "real" Japanese isn't written in romaji anyway.
I have heard people say that Romaji does not exist and to learn sounds by Hiragana and Katakana and Kanji. Most books wants you to learn by Romaji. Why is this?
They think that beginners will be less discouraged and will learn faster at the beginning if they can use a familiar alphabet. Also because many language courses are focused more on speaking & grammar than on reading/writing. That trend is changing and there are many beginning textbooks that start off with katakana/hiragana (which is what Japanese kids do).
Yes I have seen 2 or 3 books like this at Barns and Nobel.
There was one that I was going to get it had Every thing written in Katakana/hiragana/kanji/Romanji/And English. It was cool but I did not have the cash for it.