It’s カタカナ time! Lesson 5 - ナ to ノ。 ナ - NA A nut cracker. For me, it was always easy to remember that hiragana “na” means nun. And here is her cross! 二 - NI These are two needles. Of course, for those who know your numbers, “ni” also means two, and there are two strokes here. Infact, this is the [...]
Monday, May 5, 2008
It’s カタカナ time! Lesson 4 - タ to ト。 タ - TA a tadpole with one leg, soon to become a frog. Try not to confuse this one with ク “ku”. チ - CHI a chicken’s feather ツ - TSU A needle and two buttons. Tie this in with ソ ”so” - you’ve now put on two buttons. And pronounce “two” like “tsu”. A bit abstract, but [...]
Sunday, April 27, 2008
It’s カタカナ time! I think in learning katakana, it helps to know hiragana. Just like in capital letters and small letters in the roman based alphabet, there are some similarities. For instance, C and c both look similar. An example in Japanese would be か in hiragana and カ in katakana. However, you have to be careful in Japanese, [...]
Thursday, April 10, 2008
It’s カタカナ time! Now we are on to “カ to コ” Lesson 2 - カ to コ。 カ - KA Cut the bread with a sharp knife. The first stroke here outlines the break. Then the second stroke is a knife, cutting though the bread. Easy to remember because it is a more angular hiragana か without the second [...]
Friday, April 4, 2008
It’s カタカナ time! Katakana is the part of the Japanese Writing System that I perhaps have the most trouble with - I still have to sound out each syllable, and I can barely write it - only words that I know well. Even sounding out words is difficult - as often I’m trying to make [...]
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
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