December 18, 2016　    =========

☆  advice  アドバイス

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Advice is guidance, help, opinions, recommendations and suggestions that you give to others when they ask for help. I’m curious about why this word is in Katakana. I always thought that katakana words were for words that didn’t originally exist in the Japanese language. In other words, I learned that katakana was for foreign words that the Japanese language adopted.

But, surely the word advice already existed in Japanese, right?? So why would this kind of word be in Katakana? Can you give me some advice on this? You may have noticed that these emails are automatically being uploaded to the Facebook page (I finally got some advice on how to do that!) So, can you go to the English Now! Facebook page and let me know the answer? Thanks!

Bye,

Chris