オーストラリアを訪問してはじめて、日本がなんと小さな国かがわかった。

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English Translation

It was not until I visited Australia that I realized how small Japan was.

Furigana

オーストラリアを訪問(ほうもん)してはじめて、日本(にっぽん)がなんと小(ちい)さな国(くに)かがわかった。

Romanji

O-Sutoraria o hōmonshitehajimete, Nippon ga nanto chiisana kuni ka ga wakatta.

Words

濠太剌利 (オーストラリア)

Australia

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

訪問 (ほうもん)

call; visit

日本 (にほん、にっぽん)

Japan

が (が)

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

何と (なんと)

what; how; whatever

小さな (ちいさな)

small; little; tiny

国 (くに)

country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); province (of Japan); land; earth

か (か)

indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical); or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); indicates doubt, uncertainty, etc.; emphatic prefix; suffix forming adjectives or adverbs; in that way

分かる (わかる)

to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to see; to get; to follow; to become clear; to be known; to be discovered; to be realized; to be realised; to be found out