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Summary

• Introduction
• Italian to Malta
• Kanji

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Introduction

I like Linguistics. Specially different Languages with different end exotic alphabets. I also like those invented languages like Sindarin or even Klingon. Let me show in this page some material I collected in the Internet about that.

The best site I know with information about all kinds of languages is Omniglot. There you will find even the fictional languages I made reference in the first paragraph. If you want to learn languages, I suggest to look at the site Free Online Language Courses, where you will find links to sites where you can learn online and for free most of languages. It was there that I found a really good site for learning japanese: the Japanese-online.com.

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Italian to Malta

This is a MP3 file where an Italian guy try to speak English while in Malta.

- Italian to Malta

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Kanji

There are three sets of symbols in the japanese language: the two syllabic alphabets collectivelly called the Kana composed by the Hiragana, used to write japanese words, and the Katakana, used to write foreign words and the Kanji, japanese ideograms (note that the word kanji is not written with an s for the plural, since in japanese they do not have a specific form to the plural of the words).

The kanji are simplifications of the chinese ideograms, since the japanese language is derived from the chinese.

In the following I show some interesting kanji. There are different pronounces depending on where they appear in the word. Each isolated kanji is a word, but they can be combined to form other words. The pronounce must be memorized.

	kokoro - heart I like this one in special. Can you see that it really seems like a heart?
	ai - love Note that you can see the kanji for heart in the middle of this kanji. Isn't it interesting?
	hito/jin - person This is a simplification of a person: two legs and the body. It is hito when it stands alone, but in the end of another word is pronounced as jin.
	hon - book I just like this one. No particular reason.
	yawa - peace An example of a composed one.
	ryoku/chikara - power A simple one, don't you think? Easy to memorize.