Hi again~ XD
Now, it's time for Lesson 2!
Hope everyone has gotten a rough understanding of Hiragana that was taught last lesson...
After Hiragana, the next crucial building block of Japanese is none other than Katakana.Katakana would be much easier to use for most of you, since it "borrows" words from other languages such as English, French, and Chinese.
Referring to the image, the small numbers with arrows that you see indicate the stroke order (or how to "draw" the character")
It's pronunciation is exactly the same as Hiragana, and please note that wi and we are obsolete and not used in Japanese. The katakana wo (ヲ) is rarely used, as o (オ) has the same pronunciation as it, and オ is used way more often.
Just a recap....
Hiragana | Katakana (Romaji) --- pronunciation
あ｜ア (a) --- ah (short and quick)
い｜イ (i) --- e as in bee, but quicker
う｜ウ (u) --- u as in blue (but quicker)
え｜エ (e) --- air (shorter and quicker)
お｜オ (o) --- o as in tore (but much quicker)
Characters in Japanese are pronounced much shorter than what you would have in English. :)
Referring to the image, you would see many other characters.
Each of them are just a consonant together with the above characters. This is pretty much similar to English, and you pronounce them similarly.
Example: カ (ka)This is just the k sound with ア, so you pronounce it like "car", but shorter.
Finally, katakana has this dash-like "ー" symbol, which means an extension of the previous vowel.Example: ケーキ (Cake)Pronunciation: Ke-ki (you drag the e sound a little longer), so it sounds like "kAIRkey"
(In case anyone is wondering, vocabulary will come later)
Something nice for all of you who've followed me through...
Happy learning all~ :D
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