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Nani-tte nan-nano? Knowing what's what in Japanese

Language | BILINGUAL Aug 28, 2017

Nani-tte nan-nano? Knowing what's what in Japanese

by Peter Backhaus

The kanji 何 has two slightly different readings, and these seem to make it mean substantially different things.

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