Who knows the Japanese character for the word “haiku”?
Well, it sounds as if Steffie knows everything about Japan. Sure, kanji came from China, it originated from China. Japan didn’t steal it- they didn’t literally go to China and take it away. Basically, Chinese letters and all those stuff came from China to Japan, and became used there. It just ORIGINATED from China. Steffie also talks about the similarities of Chinese and Japanese words. So what? English has a lot of words which were derived from Latin words. Check this site if you want to learn more..: http://www.geocities.com/gene_moutoux/la… Anyway, it’s unfortunate that she had to learn from such an ass, but hey, there are worse people out there. And what’s so bad about carrying around all of those outrageously heavy textbooks around school everyday? Sure, it makes your back and shoulder hurt and it’ll probably stunt your growth, but that’s how things are done (in most Japanese school systems.) J
