KATAKANA Katakana is the second alphabet you will be required to know. =O was originally wo, but in modern Japan they drop the w in front. ?Roll your r's, like you would in Spanish. ¿Pa, pi, pu, pe, po is similar to the oth ers, except the brush stroke is now a small circle that is added to the ha, hi, fu, he, ho. ^Just like the others, ba, bi, bu, be, bo is the same as ha, hi, fu, he, ho except with the extra brush strokes. ++The fu sound is more like a puff of air with the sound of a hu/fu combined. ![]() +Just like ka/ga and sa/za, the ta, chi, tsu, te, to is the same as da, di, du, de, do except for the extra brush strokes. **Sa, shi, su, se, so is the same as za, ji, zu, ze, zo, except for the extra brush strokies, similar to the ka/ga issue. *Ka, ki, ku, ke, ko is the same as ga, gi, gu, ge, go you only add extra brush strokes to the end to differentiate between the two. Zo** と to ど do+ の no ほ ho ぼ bo^ ぽ po¿ も mo よ yo ろ ro? を o= ん n Ze** て te で de+ ね ne へ he べ be^ ぺ pe¿ め me Zu** つ tsu づ du+ ぬ nu ふ fu++ ぶ bu^ ぷ pu¿ む mu ゆ yu る ru? ![]() Ji** ち chi ぢ di+ に ni ひ hi び bi^ ぴ pi¿ み mi Za** た ta だ da+ な na は ha ば ba^ ぱ pa¿ ま ma や ya ら ra? わ wa If I make a mark next to a Roomaji, be sure to read the footnotes. The other alphabets will be added in the far later lessons. Each symbol will be displayed with the Rooma ji below it. For now, though, we will use Roomaji HIRAGANA This alphabet will be the first you learn and also will be the one you use most often. After you familiarize yourself with the different alphabets, you will able to start writing the sentences in Japanese. As we move on through the lessons, I will write the ph rases and such in Roomaji. There are over 1,000 Kanji symbols but you only need to know approximately 600 to be able to read any Japanese material. The Roomaji of Katakana is usually written in capital letters, just to distinguish them.The third alphabet, an d the hardest one, is Kanji, which is symbols adopted from the Chinese language. If your name is not Japanese, you would write it in this alphabet. ![]() Katakana could be compared with Roomaji, or the writing of Japanese words into English. Katakana is an alphabet specifically for non -Japanese words. It will also be the first alphabet you will begin to learn. Hiragana is the native Japanese language and is the one you will probably see most frequently. First of all, Japanese has three different alphabets: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Ganiron Jr Now, I know we just want to jump right into learning, but before we begin, we have to learn a couple basics.
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