Since childhood, we all know how complicated the Japanese language is, because it contains several thousand unusual characters that, it would seem, to learn are simply unrealistic. In order to freely communicate with the inhabitants of the country of the Rising Sun and not feel discomfort, you need to know only two thousand of these designations. Writing is another matter. It is quite difficult for an ordinary European to imagine what a Japanese keyboard looks like, so let's try to figure out this interesting question.
Language features
Let's imagine what a Japanese keyboard should be like. If it contained all the signs and symbols, this would become a real nightmare not only for us, but also for the Japanese. Really, in order to chat with a friend on the Internet, you need to fully master this incredibly complex language? And what size should the Japanese keyboard be so that all these mysterious sticks and hooks can fit on it?
As you know, in Japan two alphabets are used - “Hiragana” and “Katakana”. The first is for recording the most common words, and the second helps to identify words of foreign origin. Each alphabet contains 47 basic unique characters and 73 derivatives. Everything would be fine, but the Japanese language is so insidious that it uses another alphabet - "Kanji", which we call hieroglyphs. These characters are so complex that writing them requires a lot of skill and lengthy training. But not everything would be so bad if these ABCs were used separately. So no! The same book may contain characters from all three alphabets. Now it remains only to imagine the unfortunate and tortured Japanese blogger sitting with a huge keyboard and trying to find the right character on it ...
We reveal the secret of the Japanese keyboard
Fortunately, in fact, everything turned out to be not so sad. The fact is that the Japanese keyboard is practically no different from the European model. How can this be? After all, the Japanese in their speech use such a huge number of characters and letters that simply can not fit even on the largest keyboard. And the secret is quite simple: Latin is used for typing, which is automatically processed and converted into Japanese words. At the same time, by left-clicking on each word, you open an additional menu that contains possible variants of this word in Japanese. Who would have thought that everything is so simple?
Easy translation
To translate Russian texts, many versions of an online translator have been developed, which supports more than thirty foreign languages, has the ability to voice and print, and also has built-in dictionaries. The Russian-Japanese keyboard allows you to virtually enter the necessary data using the mouse directly on the monitor. And the large and convenient buttons make it easy to type with your fingers on the touch screen, which is very convenient for people who spend a lot of time in electronic correspondence.
Interesting to know!
As for the Japanese Windows operating system, it differs from ours only in that all the inscriptions in it are translated into Japanese. All other functions remain unchanged and familiar to the European user. From all of the above, we can conclude that the Japanese keyboard is a kind of converter of
Latin letters into intricate and incomprehensible characters for us. If you suddenly decide to experiment, you can even turn your regular keyboard into a Japanese one. To do this, you just need to change the language in the usual way for you. Perhaps such experiments will be your first step towards exploring a mysterious country called Japan.