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La culture japonaise sur le campus de l'EPFL !
Japanese culture on EPFL campus !

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[FR 1/4] Dans le mot 音楽 (ongaku, musique), 楽 est utilisé aux côtés de 音 (on, le son) : la musique est donc tout simplement un son agréable ! Et pour beaucoup de mots musicaux, c’est bel et bien 楽 qui est utilisé et non le kanji du son.

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Cette semaine, amusons-nous à étudier le kanji 楽 (gaku), lié au monde de la musique et à tout ce qui est agréable !

This week, let’s have some fun learning the kanji 楽 (gaku), which is related to the world of music and everything that’s enjoyable!

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EN [6/6]

In a country growing more uniform since the Meiji era, keeping your accent may well be the most honest way of saying where you come from.

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[FR 1/6]

Et si on vous disait qu'il n'existait pas une seule langue japonaise, mais des dizaines de langues japoniques ? 🇯🇵

Petit tour des dialectes du Japon 🧵

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EN [5/6]

And in the far south, in Okinawa and the Amami Islands, many linguists no longer speak of a dialect at all: Ryukyuan (琉球語) is a separate branch, just like standard Japanese.

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[EN 3/3] More surprisingly, this kanji also appears in 弁当 (bentō), the typical Japanese lunch boxes 🍱 Alongside 当, which means “appropriate,” 弁 is used here purely for its phonetics: this is what’s called an ateji.

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Cette semaine, intéressons-nous à un kanji qui a la particularité d’avoir de nombreuses significations : 弁 (ben) !

This week, let’s take a look at a kanji that is unique in that it has many meanings: 弁 (ben)!

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[EN 2/3] When attached to the name of a region, 弁 refers to its dialect: the Kansai (関西) region in western Japan, for instance, has its own 関西弁 (Kansai-Ben), where “arigatō” (thank you) is said as “ookini” and “jitensha” (bicycle) becomes “chari”!