"これはちずです。"
Translation:This is a map.
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It reminds me of my Kindergarten lessons (This is a man. This is a pen. A man and a pen. A pen and a man.). 頑張ってください。
As soon as I saw the top comment this song got back in my head; glad to see I wasn't the only one!
Has anyone else realized that the words for map and cheese are the same in spoken Japanese?
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They're similar, but they're actually not the same. "Map" is chizu. "Cheese" is chiizu. Japanese has phonemic vowel length.
I once tried asking for a map in a 7-11, the clerk led me to the cheese sandwiches.
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I read it as かれ at first, so I was very confused as to why "he" was a map.
I said "this map" and it marked it wrong. I figured this was the answer to the question, "Chizu wa dore desu ka?"
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"This map" is the answer to "Which map".
In Japanese Q:"どの地図ですか。", A:"この地図です。"
The answer to "Chizu wa dore desu ka?" is "Kore desu."
The question for the answer above is Q:"それは何ですか。 ", A:"これはちずです。 "
Hope this helps.
I wrote "here is a map" and I'm not sure why it was marked as wrong.
