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My Experience Learning Spanish with Rocket Languages
July 8, 2011 | 
Author If you are sick and tired of buying courses and programs that don’t really work for eveyone, then continue reading.
My name is Wally and I currently speak 4 languages fluently and working on my fifth. All throughout my adult life, friends have told me that I have a gift for language learning. So I felt that this later be my trade in life and my job would be to help others to see how to do the same thing.
But I must that things were always the case. Although my parents spoke other languages being from the Carribean,we as kids were never forced to learn them, rather English. However, something that really motivated me to learn a language besides English were the large growing diversities of people that lived in my area, and also secondly for better employment opportunities. However, how could I meet the challenge? How could I learn to speak and master other languages being I did not grow up using them?
How Rocket Languages Helped
I came across a friend of mine that also expressed the desire to learn a language. I told him that I too wanted to learn another language as well.
He mentioned that he used a program called Rocket Languages to learn Spanish. I was bit skeptical at first. I later did some searhing online and realized that there were tons of people that also learned not only to speak Spanish fluently, but also other languages as well using Rocket Languages.
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What is Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana
The Japanese language is so fascinating. The tonal qualities of the language is quite unique and the inherent politeness of the Japanese people is translated well into its language which is in turns elegant and stylish and drips with respect.
Japanese writing is also a very elegant script and it has evolved from its original Chinese script beginnings to become something that is intrinsically Japanese. There are actually different types or ways of writing Japanese characters and it has been a source of confusion for people who are not familiar with Japanese culture or for students of Japanese culture who have not yet fully researched the intricacies of the Japanese written language.
The three ways of writing Japanese characters are Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana, with another version called Romaji being used for special purposed.
<b>Kanji</b>
The word kanji is a Japanese derivative of the Chinese word hanzi, which translates to “Han characters”. The word Han pertains to the Han Dynasty and is also the name that the Chinese use to refer to themselves.
Using Kanji would mean employing between 5000 to 10000 Chinese characters. This meant that writing in this form was very difficult. In 1981, the Japanese government, as a measure to simplify how Japanese is written and read, intrduced the j?y? kanji hy? or List of Chinese Characters for General Use. The list includes 1945 regular characters and 166 special characters that has a use only for writing people’s names. All official documents, as well as newspapers, textbooks as well as other publications only use this form.
<b>Hiragana</b>
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