One thing I find fascinating is that a large fraction of the Japanese language is made up of loanwords, I’ve heard about ten percent of their language being of English origin. But they take our words and adapt them to their syllabic structure, making them Japanese words. Most English speakers
On a YouTube channel I watch, the person who made a video mispronounced the word “Hitachi”. He pronounced it “Hai-TA-chi”. I posted a helpful comment telling him the correct way to pronounce it. Someone “took me to task” for correcting his pronunciation, with the rationalization “we aren’t Japanese”. Of course,
Many words in Japanese are borrowed from other languages. Many from Chinese, and quite a few from English and Portuguese. A smattering from other languages as well. The interesting thing about Japanese, though, as opposed to many other languages, is that the Japanese language doesn’t have the syllabic structure to