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What's the Difference Between On'yomi and Kun'yomi Kanji?

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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How to Learn Japanese Spelling

If you know the most common reading of a word, then at least that guess has a higher percentage chance of being right. And there's going to be a lot of exceptions. It kind of makes me think of, like, remember that erra in american history where they tried to make all the words sound like the pronunciationsw in America? Ye, we weren't alive, so i don't know why you remember it,. One of the presidents was like, let's make all theWords sspelled the way we pronounce it, hum. I've n idea that was the first presinent that came to minye. At one point, english did sound the way it

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