differences of japanese language and english

1. INTRODUCTION TOLINGUISTICS
LDE 123
“DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
JAPANESE AND ENGLISH
LANGUAGE”
(ANALYZE THE SIMILARITIES AND THE DIFFERENCES
OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE)
PREPARED BY : RACHAEL SAMANTHA A/P GILBERT
(00000102384)
PUTERI AMANDA SORAYA BINTI
ZULKIPLI
(00000102161)
LECTURER : MISS MUSFIRAH NOR AZUA

2. INTRODUCTION:
►Differences between Japanese and English. Japanese
is an independent language; one that differs from
English and European languages based on the Roman
tongue. In fact, writing the subject in the same way as
in English can result in a Japanese sentence that is
difficult to comprehend.

3. DIFFERENCESIN CHARACTER (ALPHABET) :
JAPANESEHAVE3 TYPESOFCHARACTERS:
 KANJI : Thousands of characters borrowed from Chinese writing, each with a
different meaning.
 HIRAGANA : 46 Phonetic symbols used for inflected endings, grammatical
particles and other Japanese words.
 KATAKANA : 46 Phonetic symbols used for writing foreign loan words,
foreign name and for emphasis.
ENGLISHHAS26 CHARACTERS:
 26 Latin script characters that can each produce various sounds alone
and combined with other characters.

4. GRAMMAR

5. WORDORDER :
1) The Japanese language tends to follow a subject, object, verb order.
SUBJECT OBJECT VERB
 Prepositions follow the noun and subordinating conjunctions
follow their clause of other particles (for example, to express
interrogation) follow the sentence.
 The noun system in Japanese has features that can result in
negative into English.

6. WORDORDER :
1) The English language tends to follow a subject, verb, object
order.
SUBJECT VERB OBJECT
Vocabulary: A large number of English words are used in
Japanese. This may help some learners with their acquisition of
English vocabulary.

7. Miscellaneous
(CULTURAL DIFFERENCES)
 Many of the difficulties that Japanese learners have with English are not
due to problems with the language itself.
 The biggest difference between the Japanese language and the English
language is the cultural aspects
 Japanese try to polite and unassertive as possible in their communication
 There is a respect for abstraction for to many plain-speaking Westerners

8.  Communication between any two people in Japan is heavily influenced
by aspects such as age, sex, relationship and relative status.
 All of this can cause Japanese learners to struggle to find the best way
to express themselves and result in the production of English.
 English speakers tend to speak the same to everyone ; that is, there isn’t
a level of formality for different people in communication.