I was recently reading a book on Japanese socio-linguistics and I found it interesting that the reason a lot of the younger generation of Japanese lack a more mature vocabulary or should I say lack a more enriched vocabu...
欢迎来到Iroha Project。Iroha Project是一个图像和声音的词典。里面有日语和英语。用词典很简单。选一个语言，下一页的左边有九个范畴，右边是图像。选一个范畴，点...
I’m a thoughtful sort of person. I like to think things over before coming to a conclusion. I am not loud or persuasive. But China changed me. I had been living in China for three years and felt comfortable in the ...
Returning to the topic of calendars, I was searching around looking for the world’s oldest calendar. The calendar that we all know and use everyday, and computers have accepted widely is based on the Christian cale...
The lunar new year is coming up January 26 and I thought I write a bit more on the subject. I thought it was interesting to note that just like Japanese culture the house is cleaned on December 31, the same is done here ...
Zhuang vowels are divided into vowels that are pronounced long and vowels that are pronounced short. Just like in other languages pronounciation of vowels either long or short will end up being different words with entir...
Of the 108 vowels in Zhuang, there are 6 short vowels and 102 diphthongs. You may think that there are so many but in fact the diphthongs are all composed of short vowels. Therefore, once you remember the basic pronounci...
The present day Zhuang language is written in the roman alphabet. The letters and the symbols, which is used for the spelling of written Zhuang are the same as that of the English language. When Zhuang is used on a com...
Rural Zhuang, more than urban Zhuang, still live their traditional way of life and their traditional religion, animism. They believe in many spirits, often malicious, who control the events of their lives and must be cal...
One way the Zhuang hold fast to their ethnic identity is through the preservation of their language. The Zhuang language remained unwritten until the 1950s when an alphabet based on the Roman alphabet was developed. Now,...
![Meaning of [The friend is pulled to the unlucky affair]. The good luck and daytime are large good lucks in the misfortune and the evening in the morning. However, the funeral is abhorred.](http://www.irohaproject.org/blog/wp-content/plugins/koyomi/image/roku1.gif "Meaning of [The friend is pulled to the unlucky affair]. The good luck and daytime are large good lucks in the misfortune and the evening in the morning. However, the funeral is abhorred.")
