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Video: How to Practice Japanese by Using Sentences
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YUU ASAKURA: I like to take a minute to explain about the Japanese writing system. So here, I wrote down my name in different letters and the first one is, of course, alphabet, Y-U-U, it's Yuu. And we call it Roman letters, which is just to explain the phonetic of the...
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How to Roll Your R's
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