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| | Jonathon Delacour: Ignorance bought and paid for (in Japanese too) |
 | | By the end of their first year of elementary school, Japanese children are expected to have memorized and be using 80 kanji characters, many of which have multisyllabic pronunciations, such as: |
 | | migi (right), hidari (left), ame (rain), hana (flower), yasu (rest), sora (sky), tsuki/getsu (moon), yama (mountain), ito (thread), onna (woman), shita (below), ue (above), mori (wood/grove), mizu/sui (water), ao (blue), ishi (stone), aka (red), kawa (river), mura (village), shiro/haku (white). |
 | | By the end of elementary school, Japanese twelve year olds will be using 1006 kanji characters, hundreds of which have multisyllabic pronunciations. |
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