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The Character Description
I already knew the word for bird in Japanese and I could read the kanji (Chinese character). When I knew the kanji my daughter would write it for me. Sometimes I didn't know the kanji but she insisted I would be able to read it because I could look at the picture. For example, the color blue in Japanese is 青 (pronounced ao)。She described the parts to me and then it was easy to recognize. If the kanji was still difficult for me, we used the hiragana, the Japanese phonetic characters (for example midori = green; Kanji: 緑 or Hiragana: みどり). Of course the borrowed or made up names were written in katakana, the Japanese phonetic system to represent foreign words (for example pizza = ピザ). So if you are new to Japanese there are three writing systems used all at the same time in writing.
Next time I would like to talk about where the character lives and with whom he lives. I might even describe the weather.
In this description we were talking about the physical attributes of Tonyo. Please keep in mind that this is not going to be perfect Japanese. My daughter is only 10 years old and I am teaching her to teach me.
I think I could have described the setting of the location but I would have needed more time.
Another bonus was that I began to understand the transitional words like next or and then.
Third Location and solution
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