{"id":769,"date":"2008-08-07T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2008-08-07T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T00:13:00","slug":"the-japanese-project-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"The Japanese Project Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holy crap learning Japanese is hard. <\/p>\n<p>So, there are four different alphabets.  One is based in the Latin alphabet, which is nice, but it&#8217;s only used to communicate with stupid gaijin like myself.  There are two phonetic alphabets, one of which is only used for words imported from other languages.  (After what date, I&#8217;m not sure).  But the main alphabet is pretty much only used in kindergarten books, since the inscrutable kanji make up most of the written language.<\/p>\n<p>To add to the fun, there are four different levels of formality in speech, and the grammatical rules apparently change for each.  Awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy crap learning Japanese is hard. So, there are four different alphabets. One is based in the Latin alphabet, which is nice, but it&#8217;s only used to communicate with stupid gaijin like myself. There are two phonetic alphabets, one of which is only used for words imported from other languages. (After what date, I&#8217;m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}