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この
とうきょう
東京
オリンピック
は、アルファベットを
つか
使
わない
くに
国
での
はじ
初
めて
の
かいさい
開催
であったため、
とく
特
に
もんだい
問題
になったのが、
ことば
言葉
の
かべ
壁
だった。
Since this was the first time the Olympics were held in a country that didn’t use the alphabet, the language barrier became a significant issue.
Conjugations and inflections
Words
noun
Tokyo Olympics (1964)
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ア ル フ ァ ベ ッ ト 4
alphabet
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つ か う 0
'u' godan verb, transitive verb
1. to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to put to use
2. to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to handle; to manage; to manipulate  (see also: 人使い)
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く に 0
noun
1. country; state
2. region
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は じ め て 2
1. for the first time  (see also: 始める)
2. only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...  (after the -te form of a verb)
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か い さ い 0
holding a meeting; open an exhibition
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で あ る 3
be; is  (see also: だ, であります; formal or literary copula)
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noun
the same (age, social status); peer  (colloquialism)
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と く に 1
particularly; especially
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も ん だ い 0
noun
1. question (e.g. on a test); problem
2. problem (e.g. societal, political); question; issue; subject (e.g. of research); case; matter
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な る 1
'ru' godan verb, intransitive verb
1. to become; to get; to grow; to be; to reach; to attain  (often written with kana only)
2. to result in; to prove to be
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noun
language barrier
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expression
was  (see also: だ; past tense of plain copula)
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Kanji
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東
トウ   ひがし east   
京
キョウ   ケイ    capital   
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使
シ   つかう to use   
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国
コク   くに country   
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初
ショ   はつ    うい-    はじめ beginning   -ぞめ first doing of   
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開
カイ   あく to (be) open   あける    ひらく to open (something)   ひらける to open out (eg view)   
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催
サイ   hold a meeting   もよおす to hold (a meeting), to sponsor   
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特
トク    special   
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問
モン   とい question   とう to ask   とん wholesale   
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題
ダイ    topic   
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言
ゲン   ゴン   say; word   こと word, saying   いう to say   
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葉
ヨウ   leaf   は leaves   
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壁
ヘキ   かべ wall   
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