Tham khảo tài liệu '13 secrets for speaking fluent japanese phần 7', ngoại ngữ, nhật - pháp - hoa- others phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 13 SECRETS to read and write only twenty-six letters but the ability to read and write over two-thousand kanji characters no useful means to this end even the humble pun is to be rejected. Secondly many Japanese puns depend on the interplay of native Japanese words and foreign katakana loanwords. For the Japanese child katakana loanwords are an exotic and difficult alternative to homegrown Japanese. A child knows the word gohan for rice but the katakana alternative of raisu frequently used in restaurants is still beyond its ken. A child knows the word yasashii kind gentle but not the loanword naisu. Westerners automatically think loanwords are a banal and unfairly easy alternative to real kanji-based Japanese but for young native speakers loanwords are challengingly unfamiliar and sophisticated. Japanese children then can improve their kanji-literacy and their loanword vocabulary through punning but what about you Firstly a study of puns will provide you with greater mental agility. Pun study will alter the way in which you store Japanese vocabulary in your brain. Words will no longer be arranged in the simple form of a two-column English-Japanese vocabulary list but in a sophisticated database with cross-reference hyperlinks between kanji homophones between native Japanese words and foreign katakana loanwords and between themebased meaning-clusters of words. Secondly a study of puns will also help you acquire a basic down-to-earth vocabulary. Most students of Japanese start to study the language in their teens and are well past the Mommy what s that stage. Inspired by an interest in Japanese culture or business they may have a very lop-sided vocabulary knowing difficult abstract terms like capitalism shihonshugi or Stockholders Annual General Meeting Extortionist sõkaiya without knowing simple names for concrete things people and 114 SECRET 11 JOKES AND PUNS animals like truck engineer or carp. Their Japanese is sophisticated but lacks essential vocabulary .
