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Random Japanese o' the moment

For anyone who’s studied modern japanese, it probably felt weird that the character ‘は’ ‘ha’ was prounced ‘wa’ when it was a particle. Same with ‘へ’ ‘he’ being ‘e’. Finally, today, sitting in on the History of the Japanese Language class, we discussed probable reasons why.

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