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As the previous blog, I wrote about Japanese language’s feature. The letters, especially Kanji shape visual image, like picture. In this respect, Japanese people follow some sentence with its image in their mind whenever they read some article. It may sounds very convenient but it could easily mislead others by words. This may be because Japanese language itself is vague as pictures looks differently for people. So, it was their hope that the sentence include some visual and exact objects for better communication. Before iPhone came to Japan, there were unique cell phone culture in Japan. It was so strange that the culture is now often said Galapagos phone, the unique phone. One of the most strange feature was its texting style. When compared with the US one, any cell phone in Japan had various of emoticon at that time. Whether the cell phone sold better or not depended what kind of emoticon the cell phone had. There were several phone companies in Japan which are now ...

As I create language training iPhone APP , I sometimes realize the difference between Japanese and foreign language. One of the most unique features in Japanese is that verb has to be located at the last part of sentence. In addition, negative word such as “not” is integrated in Japanese verb so we cannot determine which sentence is affirmative or negative until we listen to the full sentence. This language feature sometimes reflects the personality of Japanese people. We tend to show important and precious things at the end. So, we easily add our intention and let others to keep it after the conversation conversation is finished. The later you hear, the newer things you hold. So, you will not forget as the last one as first. However, it has also some bad aspect. We Japanese can easily change the point of what we say while talking. The important point can be intentionally hidden if necessary while checking the reaction of listener because we can say anything before reachin...

People decide the personality of the man whom they meet at first mostly by his expression. 70% of first impression is determined in a few minutes after they meet. So, facial expression is worth a thousand words. Please remember it especially for your job interview. Nevertheless, Japanese people are not good at expressing. They rarely use body language as well. This may be related to the background of historical culture. Too much expressions are sometimes thought to be rude in the soul of samurai especially for men. They always had to stay cool in any situation. And, to reduce the inefficient movement, their fighting skill could also be improved. On the other hand for Japanese women, they tended to think to stay modest was quality of beauty or noble. They had to follow their husband for anything. This kind of thinking continued until the end of world war two since that foreign culture had installed into Japan so much. After that time, samurai or modest women spirit apparently d...

To learn foreign languages, one of the hardest work could be pronunciation especially if you would like to study it by yourself. You can go some language school to improve your pronunciation though most of teachers tend to allow your strange pronunciation as long as it can be understood. But, it costs a lot anyway. On the other hand, how about making some foreign friends? It’s for free. If your girl or boy friend could be your family through marriage, it would be the best option. The daily conversation definitely improve your speaking skill. However, this is very rare chance for ordinary people. In addition, you have to study speaking a lot before making friends, much more marriage. This is kind of a “chicken and egg” problem. So, I would like to introduce the cheep and easy way to study your pronunciation. It is the voice input on some smart phone like iPhone. For example for iPhone, you can add the foreign keyboard from the general setting. iPhone covers a lot of languag...

Draft note with voice writing If you have some smart phone like iPhone, you may find it has voice writing tool. Have you ever tried to use it? It was thought to be difficult to use at least several years ago and I actually thought so. I remember the first time the app of voice writing was released on iPhone APP store. It was about 10 years ago at the version of iPhone 3G. I am kind of gadget mania so I was very excited about it. Even though it was so exciting, I found it just a play tool and did not continue to use it as a daily utility. Typing was much easier than it. After Apple officially attach the function into keyboard, I never used it until now. The first experience which remind me of the difficulty for writing prevented me from using it. But after the long time, came the chance for me to use the tool again. I forgot to bring my PC on business trip while I wanted to create some document. It was a kind of hard work to write on iPad without keyboard.  So, I ca...

As for Swift language which controls iPhone APP, there is interesting definition: “Outlet” and “Action”. For those who are not so familiar with Swift or computer language, please see “Outlet” like noun and “Action” like verb from language definition. One of the key roles about noun is it can be subject in sentence. In this respect, “Outlet” works like subject on program while its meaning can be more detailed with its property, or what I would see as if adjective. Why “Outlet” looks noun is it always connect to object. It appears the name of object. On the other hand, “Action” do something as its name suggests. Mathematically, “Action” is like function itself. It deals with the input and show the output on its rule. In some cases, the input may not exist, which is different from mathematical function. But, it always has the output so it always do something whenever it is called. Technically, we can control the timing of when “Action” should be called as verb has the rule of...

There are tons of languages all over the world. But which language is the newest? I think it may be difficult to determine which is newer about languages. One of the reason is languages are developing all the time as far as people use them. Even the trend of word or phrase people like to use changes year by year. So, the determination of new or old could be meaningless about languages. Only the meter to evaluate languages are how frequently the language is being used now. In this respect, English would be the one which is hottest now. But I think, there is one language which may defeat English. Yes, the language is now being use to show my blog on internet unconsciously. The language is a computer language. One of the reason is that the technology of artificial intelligence is quickly be developing recently. It may not be hot among people so much for future but will definitely be among AI. Then, human beings do not have to learn the language? The answer I think so far is i...