| 05/30 |  |
NIC Japanese Languge School |
NIC Japanese Language School
Jun
May, the month blessed with the nice weather is passing away and June, the month of the rainy season (Tsuyu) will be here. Tsuyu will set in in early June throughout Japan except in Hokkaido and continue for one month forcing us to stay indoors. But Tsuyu brings us a good chance to appreciate the beauty of the flowers such as irises and hydrangea. They will bloom lovely and attractively in the rain. Meiji Shrine is famous for its Japanese Irises Garden. You can not believe you are in the mid-Tokyo. Visit there, and you will enjoy yourself .
NIC instructor Sachiko Hamano
Email ： info@nicjapanese.com
URL ： http://www.nicjapanese.com
NIC Japanese Language School
Jun
May, the month blessed with the nice weather is passing away and June, the month of the rainy season (Tsuyu) will be here. Tsuyu will set in in early June throughout Japan except in Hokkaido and continue for one month forcing us to stay indoors. But Tsuyu brings us a good chance to appreciate the beauty of the flowers such as irises and hydrangea. They will bloom lovely and attractively in the rain. Meiji Shrine is famous for its Japanese Irises Garden. You can not believe you are in the mid-Tokyo. Visit there, and you will enjoy yourself .
NIC instructor Sachiko Hamano
Email ： info@nicjapanese.com
URL ： http://www.nicjapanese.com
NIC Japanese Language School
| 05/17 | |
NIC Japanese Language School |
NIC Japanese Language school
Japan Trivia
This corner answers foreigner's doubt about Japanese language.
Foreigners feel some difficulty to understand spoken Japanese.
But Japanese has the similar experience as they do.
The following article, which is written in Zatsu Gaku Nippon
(Japan Trivia) published by Kodansha, seems to explain this matter well.
We would like to introduce it for the foreigners’ convenience.
Q: Why do people say that it is the Japanese language that makes Japanese people?
A: First, let’s start with a brief introduction to cerebral physiology.
The human brain is divided into two lobes, the left and right. The right brain is used for direct perception and pattern recognition, while the left brain is a charge of language and logical thinking. Many readers probably know this much already.
It’s also known that Japanese people use their right and left brains in a unique way.
The Japanese use their left brains much more intensely than people of other ethnic groups.
For example, the Japanese process insect chirps and the sounds of musical instruments with their left brains. Westerners use their right brains for such nonlinguistic sound.
One likely hypothesis for this is that, in Japanese, all sounds are interpreted as words through a kind of onomatopoeia. For example, the crying of a cicada is heard by the Japanese not as just another background noise but as the word rinrin.
Strong corroboration for hypothesis comes from people of Japanese ancestry who cannot speak Japanese. Their brains exhibit the same patterns as those of Westerners: they process insect chips and similar sounds through their right brains. This leads to the conclusion that the brains of Japanese people are not special, only the brains of those who speak Japanese.
In any case, it’s clear that Japanese people use their left brains too much. And that’s one reason why Japanese are poor at foreign languages: their left brains are already packed to capacity.
NIC :Japanese language school Instructor Suzuki
Email ： info@nicjapanese.com http ： http://www.nicjapanese.com
NIC Japanese Language School
Japan Trivia
This corner answers foreigner's doubt about Japanese language.
Foreigners feel some difficulty to understand spoken Japanese.
But Japanese has the similar experience as they do.
The following article, which is written in Zatsu Gaku Nippon
(Japan Trivia) published by Kodansha, seems to explain this matter well.
We would like to introduce it for the foreigners’ convenience.
Q: Why do people say that it is the Japanese language that makes Japanese people?
A: First, let’s start with a brief introduction to cerebral physiology.
The human brain is divided into two lobes, the left and right. The right brain is used for direct perception and pattern recognition, while the left brain is a charge of language and logical thinking. Many readers probably know this much already.
It’s also known that Japanese people use their right and left brains in a unique way.
The Japanese use their left brains much more intensely than people of other ethnic groups.
For example, the Japanese process insect chirps and the sounds of musical instruments with their left brains. Westerners use their right brains for such nonlinguistic sound.
One likely hypothesis for this is that, in Japanese, all sounds are interpreted as words through a kind of onomatopoeia. For example, the crying of a cicada is heard by the Japanese not as just another background noise but as the word rinrin.
Strong corroboration for hypothesis comes from people of Japanese ancestry who cannot speak Japanese. Their brains exhibit the same patterns as those of Westerners: they process insect chips and similar sounds through their right brains. This leads to the conclusion that the brains of Japanese people are not special, only the brains of those who speak Japanese.
In any case, it’s clear that Japanese people use their left brains too much. And that’s one reason why Japanese are poor at foreign languages: their left brains are already packed to capacity.
NIC :Japanese language school Instructor Suzuki
Email ： info@nicjapanese.com http ： http://www.nicjapanese.com
NIC Japanese Language School