Tsundoku

(To Accumulate Piles of Books to Read). Notes of a Gaijin – Delfina Scarpa

A semiotic investigation into Japan’s visual culture and system of signs. It may seem surprising, but the Japanese language has some similarities with Italian. Its sentence structure, similar to Latin, and the pronunciation of consonants and vowels give Italian speakers an advantage when learning the language, at least during the initial stages.

The two countries are 9,731 kilometres apart. And yet, they share certain similarities, even linguistic ones.

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