外国へ行ってみると、日本がいかにせまいか初めて分かる。

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English Translation

It is not until you go abroad that you realize how small Japan is.

Furigana

外国(がいこく)へ行(い)ってみると、日本(にっぽん)がいかにせまいか初(はじ)めて分(わ)かる。

Romanji

Gaikoku e ittemiru to, Nippon ga ikani semai ka hajimete wakaru.

Words

外国 (がいこく、そとぐに)

foreign country

へ (へ)

indicates direction or goal (e.g. "to")

行く (いく、ゆく)

to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to head (towards); to be transported (towards); to reach; to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk; to die; to pass away; to do (in a specific way); to stream; to flow; to continue; to have an orgasm; to come; to cum; to trip; to get high; to have a drug-induced hallucination

と (と)

if; when; and; with; particle used for quoting (with speech, thoughts, etc.); quoting particle; promoted pawn; indicates question (sentence end)

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

如何に (いかに)

how; in what way; however much; however (e.g. easy, rich, sad); whatever; how much; hey; oi

狭い (せまい)

narrow; confined; small

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

初めて (はじめて)

for the first time; only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...

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