"Hi."
Translation:こんにちは。
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How? I can't find how to enable it... In an older version of duolingo it was already enabled and I could hear the sentences I was constructing. I miss that feature!
It's due to the historical kana usage (歴史的仮名遣い(れきしてきかなづかい)) は=わ、ひ=い、ふ=う、へ=え、ほ=お。 へ still retains its use as え, but not as often as は when used as わ. An example of what it looked like: けふ was read as きょう、おもふ=おもう、くゎ=か、ちやう=ちょう、et cetera. Japanese was, of course, simplified, so you don't have to learn a lot of this unless you want to be literate in old Japanese. It just made sense to keep は around as わ because it helped keep things clearer.
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Where's the audio? These pick blocks excercises are mostly guessing at this point without vocalizations!
Yes, I love to play Shiritori very much. It's really fun and can help us to memorize many vocabularies. Let's try Shiritori!
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