There are a lot of differences between English and Japanese.
As you can see, a first differenc is a character. Japaneses has 3 characters, which I wrote on the last week's blog. So Japanese can creat more words than using alphabet.
Second difference is about grammar.
English form is that Subject + ver + predicative
But Japanese is moslty different.
For example: お昼ご飯を食べる。( I eat lunch.)
お昼ご飯 is a lunch
食べる is eating
so Japanese form is Subject + predicative + verb.
And in negative sentence, a negative verb is placed in the end of the sentence.
For example: お昼ご飯を食べない。( I don't eat lunch.)
ない is not.
So you cna't understand what Japanese speaker want to say if you don't listen to a end.
Last difference is pronunciation.
Some asian language has similar pronunciations to English, such as Korean and Chinese. But Japanese doesn't.
Japaneses doesn't have a "th-", "q-,-q", "sh" etc. So many Japanese people have a difficult time to learn English pronunciation.
In my case, I didn't understand the difference between "L" and "R".
Still now, I have faced the difficult time to learn speaking English and listening skill.
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Hi Rena. Your explanation is clear. I know the pronunciation is hard for you. An "r" sound happens when your tongue makes the shape of a ball and an "l" shape happens when your tongue makes the shape of a cup. :) Watch native speakers' mouthes closely to see their tongue when they say "l". You can't see it when they say "r". :)
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