Video: Latin alphabet in Japanese. Asialphabet art project by Yoriko Yoshida
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
No wonder Japanese, Chinese and other "hieroglyphic" languages are popularly called "lunar". After all, the Asians, and so everything is somehow different, "not our way": they think in their own way, dress too, prepare food differently, we will not mention the behavior in society and moral standards of decency … really aliens? Absurd, of course, but the fact that many Japanese, in particular, creative personalities like an artist Yoriko Yoshida, not of this world, is not subject to discussion. Only a Japanese could have thought to "adapt" the letters of the Latin alphabet so that each of them contained one of the symbols of Japanese culture. This is how an art project called Asialphabet … Favorite Japanese minimalism, coupled with the talent of the artist. his creative, out-of-the-box thinking and patriotism, gave the world a set of 24 pictures, by which not only the alphabet can be studied, but also the foundations of Japanese culture.
So, a child, picking up the Latin-Japanese alphabet, can get acquainted with sushi and ninja, karaoke and ikebana, origami and manga … Either the author thus promotes Japanese culture in the West, or motivates Japanese kids to take up learning English more willingly …
Why only 24, if the letters of the Latin alphabet are 26, you ask? Indeed, two letters, Q and X, are missing, but the author does not explain this situation in any way. Maybe he doesn't want to admit his mistake, or maybe the Japanese, for some of their "alien" reasons, do not quote these letters at all …
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