Help:Japanese language and culture

As UTAU and VOCALOID are products of Japan and their main users are from Japan, there are many of us who try to reach out to the Japanese users. But before you do so, you need to know a bit about them, and the Japanese language.

=The Japanese language= The Japanese language is a fork from the Chinese language. This is why many Japanese Kanji symbols are exactly the same with Chinese.

Dialects
The main dialect of the Japanese language is always Nippongo. But it is always refered to as the Japanese language. There are others like Kansai, but they are uncommon.

=The Japanese alphabet= They are in syllables, and there are ways to write it; it is in Katakana, Hiragana, Kanji and Romaji.

Romaji
=The Japanese culture=

Internet culture
=The Japanese and the Internet=

Interactions to non-Japanese people
Their attitudes towards non-Japanese people may vary so differently that it is pretty difficult to predict how they see everyone else as a whole. There are Japanese people who are accommodating to foreigners, but there are xenophobic ones as well.

Japanese cyberspeak
wktk - When you see this in videos, someone in them is eagerly awaiting, or excited. www - If the western users has LOL (laughing out loud), this is their way of saying lol. The longer the w's, the longer the lols. Like, wwwwwww is equals to lololololololol. Their way of saying this can be either funny or insulting. Attached to end of sentences, it is nothing out of the ordinary. However, wwwwww on its own may mean something insulting, depending on the situation.