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Nicole van der Hoeven
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#til that Japanese has three writing systems: hiragana (phonetic), katakana (phonetic, for foreign loan words), and kanji (semantic). My goal is to learn the first two and some of the third in time for my talk at KubeCon Japan on July 30th!
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Elric · 11w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqf8g6n4ldsmnefs9qpcsjhx2u62tcxfulym60j06jsgr0qmv84nhsc78ed6 Some katakana look somewhat like their hiragana counterparts, but more rectangular, similar to cursive vs block letters in the western alphabet. That helps reduce some of the effort.