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The journey to become the globalanguagel language of emoji

Posted on October 14, 2020 Written by 12editor1

Since appearing on Japanese phones in the 1990s, emoji have been popular around the globe. It has just become a featured communication feature in recent years. Not only for youth people, emoji is the language for everyone. That puts pressure on designers and sets the standard for emoji. If you want to become a global language, emoji need to develop continuously for all cultures.

Nowadays, there are thousands of emojis that represent people in many ways, and emojis represent how we interact with the world. In the trend of digitization and globalization, emoji will become an important translation and communication tool.

Emoji first was created in 1999 by Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita. At that time, Kurita was working for i-mode, the original mobile internet platform of the network operator Docomo. Kurita’s idea was to create an attractive interface to convey information in a simple and concise manner. For example, a cloud icon instead of a cloudy weather state.

Emoji quickly gained popularity in Japan as rival companies learned from Docomo’s ideas. The mobile phone boom in the mid-2000s was when companies outside Japan like Apple saw the potential of emoji.

Subsequent emojis will depend on a recommendation submitted to the Unicode Association. Anyone can submit emoji suggestions, just the pattern of the icon. In addition to messages, emoji today also appear in many forms such as Apple’s Animoji or Facebook Avatar. As technology moves beyond tiny phones, emoji will also emerge in new forms.

Not only for texting, but now emoji is a digital language. The Unicode consortium approves new emojis every year, which are often included in operating system updates.

First of all, it has to be proposed to the Unicode Association, explaining why it should be included and the details for emoji design. The proposal is reviewed by a sub-committee of the Unicode Association, and will be approved if approval is received from the members.

The proposal was approved by the Unicode Association in 2010. Being recognized by Unicode not only helps the emoji’s vocabulary continue to grow, but also validates emoji as a form of communication. That’s when emoji became the new language. Emoji have become too common to ignore.

What are the Japanese betting on world technology?

Posted on March 12, 2020 Written by 12editor1

Are there a lot of issues that found like the IT industry can solve it? Japanese businesses say “YES”. And they are taken to the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany to explain the reason for this.

The modest tutoring helped Japan from a closed, backward country to become a great power with European countries. And by the 1980s, the land of the rising Sun became the leader in creativity. That is what the Japan Business Federation set out to build a new “super-smart society” society. This is also the main content of the presentation at the Cebit trade show.

Society 5.0 will be the fifth step in the social revolution of humanity, with Japan being the leading country. This new society will expand the scope of work for both foreigners and women. These are the two groups of labor that make a negligible contribution to the country’s industry. At the same time they solve the demographic problems that are troubling Japanese managers.

Beyond job creation, the new society will look for a way in which technology can help all people participate in social activities, including the elderly. Instead of fierce competition, technology will bring cooperation with both foreign businesses.

It can be said that, although behind Germany or some European countries in the Industrial Revolution 4.0, the results achieved by Japan are extremely respectable. Although mining data resources is not a new problem because the data has existed for a long time, but only on paper or in Excel files.

At this point, people have only participated in the analysis and processing of information because it requires creative thinking ability, and now machines are still very far from humans.

The idea of society 5.0 has only been implemented initially, so its results are not really impressive and clear. But surely Japanese society will have a drastic change in the near future.

Introducing the app to learn Japanese – Lingodeer

Posted on August 4, 2019 Written by 12editor1

For many people, especially those who are working, the time spent studying Japanese is not much. Therefore, learning Japanese through smartphone application becomes necessary. Today I will introduce to you a very good Japanese learning app called Lingodeer, which is quite useful and has many interesting features for those who are just beginning to learn.

For beginners to learn Japanese. In fact, you can learn both Chinese and Korean through Lingodeer, but we will focus on studying Japanese. With Lingodeer, you can complete the elementary level of Japanese. Lingodeer is like a combination of Duolingo and Memrise. Duolingo’s strength is in teaching grammar through Memrise-themed lessons, focusing more on teaching vocabulary, through a variety of integrated exercises.

In Lingodeer, lessons are designed for each type of vocabulary topic, starting from the most popular topics such as nationality, right / wrong speech, occupation, and gradual diversity in subsequent articles. For each of these topics, you will get the corresponding lessons.

After each appropriate number of lessons, you will have to pass a “pass” test to continue. This is also very convenient for those who have learned a little Japanese before when they want to skip the first lesson, they can always do this “test” to unlock the next lesson.

The first thing to say is that the image and sound of Lingodeer are very carefully invested. All voices within the app, from vocabulary to sentences and videos are pronounced by native speakers so learners will be able to learn standard Japanese pronunciation. In terms of images, the app is also designed in bright colors, with the mascot that the deer will always laugh, or cry with you.

The second strength of Lingodeer is a very complete explanation. At the beginning of each lesson there will always be a section similar to grammar explanations (study tips) and for me this is quite an important part. If you learn through the app Duolingo version on smartphones, you can see a very important part has been combated compared to the web version, that is the Tips and Notes section. With a thorough and complete grammar explanation, this is a huge plus for Lingodeer.