How to know where a word ends or starts? Dear friends who are also studying Japanese, I have a question and i will be happy if someone of you, guys, is able to help me out with the following issue: Unlike languages such as spanish , english or other western language, Korean, Chinese and Japanese are written in different ways in which latin alphabet is employed and spaces between words are introduced. Every time i read a paragraph either in Chinese, Korean or Japanese, i realize people write with no spaces. In this way, trying to figure where a word ends or starts has been very challenging to me. That's why I would love to read your suggestion about the topic i am concerned about. Example of what i say is: 小さい女の子は興奮している。