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2. Kanji かんじ are ideographic characters which originated in China. Each character has a particular meaning, but its pronunciation varies with the way it is used according to certain principles. Kanji are used extensively to write nouns, verbs, numbers, and names. There are thousands of kanji and you will learn to write a few common ones in this t text They can be recognized by their complexity, variety and fairly square shape, e. g. 国仕事名前日月火水木金土円一二三四五六七八九十本雨気
3. Katakana カタ力ナ is a syllabary just like hiragana. It is mostly used borrowed from foreign languages, but it is also used for brand names, exclamations, onomatpoea, slang, and botanical and zoological names. Its use can be compared to italics in English. Katakana can be recognized by its simple, square form, e.g. コオソフムルイウノミアカサタナロキセニネクラレテチト
Some comments on pronunciation
In Japanese there are only five vowel sounds. These pronounced the same way. In Japanese these are written in hiragana, which is a kind or alphabet. At first we will use the Roman letters a, i, u, e, and o to represent these sounds. These Roman letters are called roomaji is that, unlike hiragana ひらがな, a letter in English can be pronounced a number of ways. As each hiragana ひらがな has a fixed sound, Japanese is easy to spell.
Since these vowels have more than one pronunciation in English, you need to make sure you keep to the correct pronunciation when reading in roomaji.
The following is a rough guide to Japanese pronunciation, but since English vowels way with accent you should pay careful attention to the tape.
Since these vowels have more than one pronunciation in English, you need to make sure you keep to the correct pronunciation when reading in roomaji.
The following is a rough guide to Japanese pronunciation, but since English vowels way with accent you should pay careful attention to the tape.
あ as in father, above, soya, collar not as in. Ant, cake, car
い as in · police, hockey, itch, ink not as in ·binary, iron
う as in · Malibu, sue, flu not as in : under, up, surface
え as in · enemy egg, air not as in : the, see, even
お as in · ox, origin, comic not as in : order, to, soot
Japanese vowels can be short and clipped or long depending on the word. It is only the length that varies and not the sound. Therefore, aa, ii, uu, ee, oo, have the same pronunciation as above, only with a longer sound.
い as in · police, hockey, itch, ink not as in ·binary, iron
う as in · Malibu, sue, flu not as in : under, up, surface
え as in · enemy egg, air not as in : the, see, even
お as in · ox, origin, comic not as in : order, to, soot
Japanese vowels can be short and clipped or long depending on the word. It is only the length that varies and not the sound. Therefore, aa, ii, uu, ee, oo, have the same pronunciation as above, only with a longer sound.