Languages without a and the

I have been preparing slides for next Sunday's weekly meeting of LILT, the online languages club, where we do a new language every month, except most weeks, except for the very popular languages with several dialects such as Chinese and Sanskrit/Hindi where we do two weeks. I group together pairs of languages which can help you or confuse you, mostly help you. 

For example, Arabic and Hebrew and German and Yiddish. 

Chinese, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Japanese are linked languages. They use the same picture symbols, although said differently. Think of it like the symbold for no smoking and do not iron on clothes. The symbols look the same but are said differently in the UK, USA, France and Germany and Spain.. 

Hebrew

 Hebrew does not have a, only the/this.  the verb comes second or last. You don't need the verb to be. (Ha is the. Ha zeh isthis is. Ma zeh is what is this.)

Japanese

Japanese does not have a and the.

Japanese sentences have the verb at the end.