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Modern Japanese has always had significant commercial and cultural relevance. Japanese is such a fluid language, there is such a great level of flexibility within. Despite being considered linguistically isolated, the Japanese Language is has been immensely and rapidly influenced and permanently altered by a variety of Indo-European languages and Chinese. Aka 'The Borrower of Languages', Japanese contains a lot of loanwords not just from China but also English, German, Dutch & French. Slowly but surely over the centuries, the Japanese has slowly amalgamated words and concepts from nations all over the world.
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130 million people in the world speak the Japanese language, making it the 9th most spoken language around. Although there are countless sources out there these days that help you...
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