Idk, I put the Kanjis in my name cuz it looks cool, I don’t speak Japanese, sadly :(
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cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
How about Japanese? I like the hip hop duo Creepy Nuts, and their songs Yofukashino Uta (Call of the Night) and To Us Former Prodigies are so fun to listen to. I don’t know Japanese. Well, a few dozen words, but not enough to understand a song. Both videos on YouTube have subtitles in English though.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
It’s not “just Chinese really.” It derived from Chinese and there are many overlaps, but in modern Japanese, Kanji very often represent different words than their Chinese counterparts. Your take is… uninformed.
Drusas@fedia.io 2 days ago
Verbs are certainly easier.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Japanese, not restricted in the same way as Chinese tonally, and having a long tradition of both song and poetic lyrics, lends itself extremely well to hip hop/rap. This is not to say it’s better than Chinese for this - only different. There are so many excellent Japanese hip hop artists.