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Japanese language learners have often found that Japanese sounds are similar to Spanish sounds.

Japanese word order is classified as Subject Object Verb, where the verb, when written formally without any colloquial speech patterns, usually ends in "-masu" (present tense) or "-mashita" (past tense). However, unlike many Indo-European languages, Japanese sentences only require that verbs come last for intelligibility.

Many native Japanese words have become commonplace in English, due to the popularity of many Japanese cultural exports. Words such as futon, haiku, judo, kamikaze, karaoke, karate, ninja, origami, rickshaw (from jinrikisha), samurai, sayonara, sumo, sushi, tsunami, tycoon and many others have become part of the English language.

Modern Japanese is written in a mixture of three main systems: kanji, characters of Chinese origin used to represent both Chinese loanwords into Japanese and a number of native Japanese morphemes; and two syllabaries: hiragana and katakana. Japanese students begin to learn kanji from their first year at elementary school. A guideline created by the Japanese Ministry of Education, the list of kyōiku kanji ("education kanji", a subset of jōyō kanji), specifies the 1,006 simple characters a child is to learn by the end of sixth grade. Children continue to study another 939 characters in junior high school, covering in total 1,945 jōyō kanji. The official list of jōyō kanji was revised several times, but the total number of officially sanctioned characters remains largely unchanged.

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