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She has good handwriting.
彼女は字が上手だ。
While American methods are often successful, the Japanese educational system that produces the most literate people in the world surely has some lessons to teach the U.S.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
文字はそれが半ば商売、半ば芸術であるとき最高に栄える。
His handwriting is bad.
彼は字が下手だ。
The Southern Cross is not to be seen in Japan.
南十字星は日本では見ることができない。
Tom didn't know what Mary's last name was.
トムはメアリーの苗字を知らなかった。
The Red Cross distributed food to the refugees.
赤十字は難民たちに食糧を配った。
How many grade four kanji have you memorised?
4級の漢字をどれだけ覚えていますか。
A is the first letter of the alphabet.
Aはアルファベットの最初の文字だ。
You must begin a sentence with a capital letter.
文章は大文字で書き始めなくてはならない。
The ABC company is in the red again.
ABC会社はまた赤字だ。
How is your family name written?
あなたの苗字はどのように書くのですか?
Clever as he is, he still cannot solve this math problem.
彼は賢いけれど、まだこの数字の問題が解けない。
What is this the abbreviation for?
何の略字ですか。
How do you spell your last name?
あなたの苗字はどのように綴るのですか?
In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.
She did a lot of voluntary work for the Red Cross.
彼女は赤十字のために自発的な労働をたくさんした。
The company is losing money.
あの会社は赤字だ。
Have you ever subscribed to any English language newspaper?
あなたは英字新聞を定期購読したことがありますか。
Magazines let writers write what they want and decide how to lay it out afterward, but that magazine prioritizes its design, so it sets a predetermined limit on how many words are in it.
Your composition was good except for the spelling.
君の作文は綴り字以外はよく書けていた。
Please read the numbers on the meter.
メーターの数字を読んでください。
Look up the word in the dictionary.
辞書のその文字をご覧。
The company stopped losing money.
あの会社は赤字を脱した。
What does this kanji mean?
この漢字はどういう意味ですか。
For some reason the message text was corrupted, so I restored it before reading.
メッセージがなぜか文字化けしていたので、修復して読みました。
One of the reasons Twitter is popular in Japan is a characteristic of Japanese itself: Japanese uses ideograms which enable it to convey more information in just 140 characters than other languages, not counting Chinese. Incidentally, the Japanese version