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 [...]
Monday, July 2, 2007
OK, this lesson in hiragana is soooo damn easy you should be able to get it in ten minutes. There are only three characters on this line! Here they are: Lesson 8 ー や to よ や - YA Looks like a yak. Here in Australia the way we pronounce yak uses the wrong “a” sound, however it is easy to see [...]
Monday, June 11, 2007
Ma Mi Mu Me Mo… Sing with me! Ah… OK, learn them anyway you want, but really, what’s wrong with my singing?? Lesson 7 ー ま to も ま - MA Apparently this is a telephone poll with the wires so you can call your ma. Yeah, I can’t remember how I learnt this one. lol. But, maybe you see it? み [...]
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
On to lesson 6. Lesson 6 は - to ほ は - HA Remember け (ke)? It stood for “keg”. Here is our keg again, but now it has a hole in it. And everyone is laughing at us… “ha ha!” So yes, ha is the thing to remember this by. It can get confusing with the next [...]
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Now we are at the half way mark! Woo hoo! Lesson 5 な - to の な - NA Looks like a Nun kneeling before the cross. This one is so easy to learn because I find that so easy to visualise. Along with the next one: に - NI Looks like a knee. The vertical line is one edge [...]
Friday, May 25, 2007
On to the た row. I have always found this row as the easiest to master. Lesson 4 - た to と た - TA This one is so easy! It already looks like “ta” in English. You can’t get any simpler than that. ち - CHI Picture this as a ball of cheese with a fancy tooth pick. Remember, don’t [...]
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
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