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Language Skills | Making comparisons in Japanese and Chinese | Four iconic Japanese and Taiwanese writers you must know

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In today's episode, we introduce how to make a comparison in Japanese and Chinese with five example sentences related to writers, which is the conversation topic for the second half of this episode.


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🔅Outline for today's episode:

1) Word bank

  • Writer: 作家
  • Novelist: 小說家/小説家
  • Popular: 受歡迎(的)/人気がある
  • Publish: 出版
  • Useful: 有用(的)/役立つ
  • Comic book: 漫畫/漫画
  • Detective novels: 推理小說/推理小説
  • Autobiography: 自傳/自伝

    • 2) Basic grammar structures in Japanese and Chinese for making comparisons, with examples

    3) 2 Japanese and 2 Taiwanese writers and the works they acquired fame for

    For the listen-and-repeat practice, check out our website for transcriptions of the example sentences we mentioned in today's episode.


    *Note:

    Mai is mentioning two types of “より（yori）” here: 

    1. より（more）: より多くの本  more books
    2. より（than）: あの作家より than that writer  

      3. Please don’t get confused!  

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