There are many differences between English and Japanese, including: - Japanese uses 3 types of characters (Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana) while English only uses the Latin alphabet. - Japanese has 2 tenses (past and non-past) while English has 3 basic tenses (present, past, future). - Japanese is written from right to left and top to bottom while English is written left to right. - Japanese word order follows subject-object-verb while English follows subject-verb-object. - The biggest cultural difference is that Japanese emphasizes politeness in communication more than English.

1. えい語と日本語の間に多くのちがい
があります。
There are many differences between
English and Japanese.

2. Kanji Thousands of characters borrowed from
日本語は文字 Chinese writing, each with a different
の3種類があ meaning
Hiragana 46 phonetic symbols used for inflected
ります。 endings, grammatical particles and other
Japanese has Japanese words
Katakana 46 phonetic symbols used for writing
3 types of foreign loan words, foreign names, and for
characters. emphasis
えい語は２６つ文
English 26 Latin script characters that can
each produce various sounds alone 字があります。
and combined with other characters. English has 26
characters.

3. えい語では、3つの基本的な時制があります: 現在、過去、将来。各動詞の時制のため
の、完了と進行と完了進行形があります。
English has 3 basic tenses: present, past and future. For each verb tense, there is a
present, progressive and present progressive verb.
Simple Progressive Perfect Perfect-Progressive
Present Take/s am/is/ have/ have/has been taking
are taking has taken
Past took was/were taking had taken had been taking
Future will/shall take will be taking will have taken will have been taking
日本は2つの時制があります：過去と非過去。また、動詞の丁寧とプレーンの形式があ
ります。プレーンの形式はカジュアルなスピーチのためのものです。
Japanese has 2 tenses: past and non-past (present and future). Also, there is a polite and plain
form. Plain form is used for casual speech.
Polite Plain
Non-Past -masu/-masen Root form/
(Affirmative/Negative) -nai form
Past -mashita/ Ta-form/
(Affirmative/Negative) -masendeshita Nakatta form

4. How it’s Written
日本語は右から左に、上から下に書き込まれます。
Japanese is written from right to left, from top to bottom.
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5. Word Order
The Japanese language tends to follow a Subject, Object, Verb order.
日本語は主語、目的、動詞の順序に従う傾向があります。
Example: 山田さんはテレビを見ます。
Subject Object Verb
The English language tends to follow a Subject, Verb, Object order.
英語は、件名、動詞、オブジェクトの順序に従う傾向があ
ります。
Example: Bobby played his violin.
Subject Verb Object

6. The biggest difference between the Japanese
language and the English language is the
cultural aspects. Japanese try to be polite and
unassertive as possible in their communication.
English speakers tend to speak
the same to everyone; that is,
there isn’t a level of formality
for different people in
communication.