do the japanese and chinese language have the same script. those who know may answer. no jokes pls.?
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No, in terms of script and language no.\n\nThe Japanese Writing Language in whole consists of 3 different sets of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.  Though Hiragana and Katakana are basically the same phonetic letters, they are spelled differently in their sets to distinguish original words from borrowed words.\n\nHiragana is the curved phonetic script that is used for most of the language for japanese-domestic words like you (anata) or me (watashi) (note: "anata" and "watashi" are romanji, romanized-letter style of dictating japanese, not as great as usage of the hira/kata style). \n\nKatakana is the straight phonetic script that is used for "borrowed words" from other countries (mostly USA) and sounded onomatopeicly, like hotel would be "ho-te-ru" and the US would be "A-Me-Ri-Ka".\n\nKanji are ideograph characters that are borrowed from Chinese characters (in the Simplified Chinese set, not Traditional). They stand to be used as substitutes for words in japanese that are objects or ideas for the most part. (The symbol for Tokyo 東京 is really the kanji for "Too-Ky-Yoo".) However, Hiragana and Katakana can be used in place of Kanji with no misunderstanding. Kanji is more substitute fillers.\n\nSidebar: Hirugana are the little scripts that are beside Kanji words in educational books. This helps the student familiarize themselves with the sounding of the word and memorization of the Kanji.\n\n\n\nBy Contrast, Chinese Characters, or Hanzi, is made of of nothing but tens of thousands of ideograph characters. Originally, the characters were pictures that evolved into pictographs and eventually into ideographs, for the meaning.  A meaning or work could be as simple as one character (car=車, or che) or as long as the meaning goes (WMD = 大規模毀滅性武器 daguimo huimiexing wu qi). Hanzi is all about memorizing, to know the words. But the characters do not give you an idea of what the word sounds like. Thats where Pinyin and Zhuyin come in.\n\n\nOriginally, to understand what the character sounds is, one would use the Zhuyin phonetic system. Like the hiragana phonetic system (where all script letters represent sounds like ka, no, ru), the Zhuyin (or BoPoMoFo) system is script letters that represent sounds that are used to make up the combined sound of a letter. (mom would be ㄇㄚㄇㄚˋ, or MAMa)\nEarly school children were originally taught this system first to familiarize themselves with the sounds, and towards high school just memorize the sounds that go with the character (to the point of innate skills). Taiwan and certain countries still embrace this method limitedly, because alot use Pinyin instead.\n\nPinyin is a different school of chinese phonetics. It uses roman letters instead of Zhuyin script to garner the sounds (similar to Romanji for japanese). This was developed so more of the West would be able to learn chinese without trying to use the Zhuyin system. (like Mom would be Mama, sorta).  Mainland China embraces the Pinyin system (as well as simplified text, where Kanji most resembles).\n\n\nIn summary, Japanese and Chinese do not share the same script, but originally, like most SouthEast Asian countries (*cough* Korea) Japan borrowed a large portion of the characters from China and heavily evolved it into the hiragana, katakana, and kanji sets of today. Chinese still stems into two schools of writing, with the Simplified Hanzi, and the Traditional Hanzi.
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hiya,\n\ntry\n\nhttp://www2.mylot.com/?ref=onetopdesigner\n\nthere are quite a few japanese on there, its like a blog like this one that you get paid for asking and answering. try it
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　　　　　　　chinese     　　　　　　Japanese\nLive        　　　　　活（生活） 　　   せいかつ（生活）\nLaugh       　　　　　笑       　　   　　　  　　わらう　（笑う）\nLove       　　　 　　爱          　　　　　  　　あい　　（愛）\nDream      　　　　梦（梦想）　　　　ゆめ　　（夢）\n\nI am not sure what you really want, so i listed both.\nI hope these can help you.
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What an odd question. Please remember that we share the English langauge with many other countries (U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africam, Canada, etc.) and therefore share the same alphabet.\n\nAdditionaly, many other languages have both more letters (or characters when talking about the various Chinese Dialects as well as Japanese) and more phonemes (different sounds). \n\nSo to answer your question, no.
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Chinese - over 80,000 characters\nHawaiian - 13 Characters
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Mandarin and Cantonese use the same script, right? The Mandarin script for it would be 永远忠诚 (yongyuan zhongcheng) meaning "forever faithful" or 忠 (zhong) for short meaning loyalty.
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for me,Japanese is more creative.=)
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There are keyboards with Japnese printed on keys. Also one can type if you change your font to some japnease or chinese. But I don't no either of the language so I can't type the words and tell you.
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There is no physical difference between Chinese and Japanese.   However the difference is, Chinese people are from China, speak Chinese, and have Chinese culture, similar to Japanese’s but different.  Japanese people are from Japan, speak Japanese, and have Japanese culture, which is similar to Chinese’s, but different.  That’s how we are different form each other, but we do not need to look different in order to be different.  No one goes on about how Australian people look different from people of New Zealand, or German people from Austrians, or English people form French, or Czech people form Slovakian people, do they?  That's because everyone knows they are different even if they may not look different.  Same thing for Japanese and Chinese. \nAs a Japanese person, I get lots of questions about how we look different form Chinese people, and lots of opinions of how they think we look different from each other.  Personally, I find it nonsense.  Japanese are from Japan, Chinese are from China.  That's all.\nBut mind you, China is a big country, and Japan is a long country form North to South.  It is more down to individuals than anything else, but as it is so, if you compare a person from a place in China next to Nepal to a person form Hokkaido, North Japan, occasionally (not always) you may find a slight difference because one's from North and the other's form South.   Same thing can happen if you compare someone from Okinawa, South Japan to someone from North China near Russia.  That may confuse some people and make them think there is a difference between us.  But remember, country borders are man made, and people do not suddenly look different because of that.
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Since Chinese is a picture-nased language, showing children how particular words look like what they mean, may be a fun way to teach. \n\nI bought a book titled 'Fun With Chinese Characters' from a bookshop here in Australia and it certainly took a fun approach to the Chinese written language.  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932457003/sr=8-1/qid=1151222903/ref=sr_1_1/102-0294955-0287366?ie=UTF8\nThe cover of the book itself shows you for example, how the Chinese word for 'hand' was created based on the image of the hand.\nI recommend this book, and there are others which take the same approach on Amazon.com.\n\nYou can find many examples of these words versus pictures in this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character\nOf course, not every Chinese character is a pictograph - but hopefully by getting students familiar with writing the little radicals that make up the words, it won't seem so hard.\n\nHopefully you'll find some good books to help you and that your students and you yourself have fun!
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They are very different and aren't related to each other.  \n\nAlthough, it is debated that Japanese and Korean may be related. And in my view, they might. They use politeness levels and honorifics (though Korean has more than Japanese!).\n\nJapanese and Korean verbs conjugate while Chinese verbs do not.\n\nJapanese and Korean verbs tend to end a sentence. Chinese verbs are somewhere in the middle.\n\nPhonologically, Chinese has tones.  Mandarin, particularly, has 4 while Cantonese has 9. Japanese and Korean rely on pitch accent.\n\nIn writing, Japanese mixes Chinese characters with its syllabic writing system.  South Koreans use Chinese characters (North Koreans have gotten rid of them 60 years ago), though it seems like they use it sparingly these days. The writing system is rather unique and easy to learn.  \n\nVocabulary wise, Japanese and Korean have a lot of Chinese words.\n\nAnyway, here are some examples of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean so you can get an idea of how different they are:\n\nEnglish: I read this book.\nChinese: 我看過這本書了。 (wo kan guo zhe ben shu le)\n\nJapanese: 私は、この本を読みました。 (watakushi wa, kono hon o yomimashita)\n\nKorean: 저는 이 책을 읽었습니다. (jeoneun i chaegeul ilgeosseumnida)
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Have you tried to adjust some of the free java scripts? they are available almost everywhere, and if you set the character set on Chinese, I think that should work properly.\nUnfortunately, I hanese, but this did work for have had no experience with web proramming in Chinese. If tis does not help, I wish you good luck, anyway!
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In Japanese, there is a phonetic character set (two, actually) called kana, consisting of 46 symbols each. There are only 46 distinct syllable sounds in the Japanese language. Japanese computers typically have a keyboard with each of these 46 characters mapped out. Alternatively, you can use the Roman alphabet to spell out these 46 sounds.\n\nChinese can also be entered phonetically. There are also some input methods that involve entering a character piece by piece, since complex Chinese characters are often composed of smaller, distinct pieces. This entry method can be supported with a relatively simple keyboard of 24 keys, each of which represents one or more of these pieces.
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There are two main ways of writing japanese, hiragana and katakana not including the hiroglyphics/picture words. It is a pretty complex language unless you only wish to speak it but I would advise you order a book and CD or take a course somewhere.
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You'll find some at this website:\nhttp://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Temple/1219/mandarin_index.html
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There are a few good sites for that sort of thing ... IF your computer can display Chinese characters! But as they're uncopy-able I can't paste them here.\n\nhttp://chineselanguage.org/cgi-bin/query.php?mode=english&sound=0&beijing=pinyin&canton=jyutping&meixian=pinjim&fields=mandarin,english&lang=en&level=6\n\nSame goes for http://zhongwen.com/zi.htm\n(select OK88 after searching for the English word.)\n\nThey're both online dictionaries, and you can search using English words and see the Chinese character.
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Although there are specialized keyboards, for the most part Japanese and Chinese just use regular keyboards that uses software to change keystrokes into thier respective languages - for example, typing "KA" on a Japanese system will result in the Japanese hiragana "ka", etc.