πŸ“šπŸ“š Read every day challenge - Spring 2023 🌸🌷🌼

:cherry_blossom: Day 5, 4 月 5 ζ—₯ :herb:

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Read an informational text in Tobira about あいγ₯け. Those are the responses used in Japanese to signal the speaker that you’re listening. They often contain contractions: for example γΎγ˜γ§γ™γ‹ has apparently a shortened version of γΎγ˜γ£γ™γ‹. It hadn’t occured to me until now that obviously the spoken version of a language would have contractions of parts of sentences and not only full ellipses.

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