🇯🇵 Mind-blowing facts about Japanese/Nihongo/日本語 - is spoken by over 130 million people, primarily in Japan and Japanese emigrant communities. - has an extremely complicated writing and speaking system making it difficult for English or other non-Japanese speakers to learn and interpret. - is 9th on the list of the most in-demand languages in the world. - doesn’t have any plurals and articles. - has three writing systems—Japanese alphabets hiragana and katakana, and the Chinese characters called kanji. - is one of the fastest spoken languages at 7.84 syllables per second (English is at 6.19 syllables per second) - has no genetic relation to Chinese but they have a large number of common words - You have to know more than 2000 kanji to be able to read any newspaper! - Almost 10% of Internet users speak Japanese. - The Tokyo dialect is considered the modern standard Japanese. https://bit.ly/35Xkxhj