A researcher in New Zealand say that the best way to learn a language is through frequent exposure to its sound patterns — even if you haven’t a clue what it all means.
“Our ability to learn new words is directly related to how often we have been exposed to the particular combinations of the sounds which [...]

Today we ask:  What are kanji radicals?
All kanji contain a classifying radical that is a component of the kanji. Often the radical imparts meaning to the kanji – for example the radical for hand 扌 appears in both of the kanji that combine to form the word “grasp” (把持)** and the individual kanji for “throw” [...]

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The word “Kanji” means Chinese letter or character. The kanji script was invented by the Chinese. It was introduced to Japan by Buddhist monks and adopted by the Japanese around the middle of the 6th century AD. Kanji are ideographs meaning that the whole character conveys a meaning rather than just a sound (the hiragana [...]

We are often asked what form of Arabic our software teaches. ReadWrite Arabic and Arabic Falshcards use ”Literary” or “Classical” Arabic” (اللغة العربية الفصحى‎ : al-luġatu l-ʿarabiyyatu l-fuṣḥā: meaning “the most eloquent Arabic language”) which is the language of the present-day mass media across North Africa and the Middle East. It is also the language of the Qur’an.
Literary [...]

What is Hiragana? 
Hiragana, which means “rounded” or “easy”, is a phonetic script much like the English alphabet where each character has a unique sound and the characters can be written one after the next to spell out a word. Learning hiragana is the first step in learning how to read and write Japanese – indeed [...]

Today we explain the derivations of the two different Japanese pronunciations of kanji.
In Japanese there is generally more than one pronunciation of a kanji. The ON pronunciation (onyomi) is taken from the Chinese pronunciation while the KUN pronunciation (kunyomi) is derived from the indigenous Japanese pronunciation of the same word/meaning.
ON Pronunciation
Most kanji compounds (words made [...]