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Both 漢字 (Japanese Kanji) and 汉字 (Chinese Hanzi) are translated as Chinese Characters'. At the present time, approximately 70% of…
皆さんこんにちは！ お元気ですか？ Just like Italian and Spanish, there are three words of demonstration in Japanese: Object near to the…
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Bonjour! Do you know that all of the French verbs belong to the three conjugations? Today we are going to…
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