Part Three: katakana

Katakana (片仮名, カタカナ or かたかな, Katakana) is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin alphabet. The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana scripts are derived from components of more complex kanji.

Katakana are characterized by short, straight strokes and angular corners, and are the simplest of the Japanese scripts.

There are two main systems of ordering katakana: the old-fashioned iroha ordering, and the more prevalent gojūon ordering.

In modern Japanese, katakana are most often used for transcription of words from foreign languages (called gairaigo). For example, "television" is written terebi (テレビ, terebi). Similarly, katakana is usually used for country names, foreign places, and personal names. For example America is written アメリカ Amerika (America also has its own kanji (ateji) Amerika (亜米利加, Amerika) or for short, Beikoku (米国, Beikoku) which literally means "Rice Country").

Katakana are also be used for onomatopoeia, words used to represent sounds; for example pinpon (ピンポン, pinpon), the "ding-dong" sound of a doorbell, would usually be written in katakana.

Technical and scientific terms, such as the names of animal and plant species and minerals, are also commonly written in katakana.
*credits to Wikipedia*

Let's see the table of katanaka together with their sounds in roman.



Now everybody here are able to read katakana right?
Ok to confirm whether you are really understand katakana or not,
let me give you some homeworks .
How about creating your own / nick names in katakana,
or try to spell your country names in katakana.

examples:

correction: マレーシア (Malaysia) Thanks Aida-chan for your comment.

p/s: My nick name is Mai,convert to katakana it will be like this ( マイ) 、luckily Japanese people always use Mai for their daughter's name.It also can be written as 舞 in kanji character, meaning (dance).

Part Two : Hiragana

Japanese language is usually written in three methods :
Hiragana, katakana and Kanji.

Therefore many people believe that japanese is hard to learn because they need to memorize these three methods.
But don't worry guys , old japanese always said :

Ganbareba Nandemo Dekiru (If you work harder, anything will possible to get)

The following chart shows the hiragana together with their romaji (read in romaji).



Let's see how hiragana is used in japanese writing.
Examples:

Part One : Self Introduction

Self Introduction or Jiko Shoukai .
This is a conversation between Oshin (japanese) and Maisara(malaysian).
Let see how they do introduce each other using japanese.
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Maisara : Konnichiwa (Good Evening)
Oshin : Konnichiwa Dozo O-kake Kudasai.(Good Evening,Please have a sit).
Maisara : Arigatou Gozaimas. (Thank You)
Oshin : Onamae wa nan desu ka .(what is your name)
Maisara : watashi no namae wa Maisara desu.(My name is Maisara).
Oshin : Doko kara kimashitaka ( Where are you come from ? )
Maisara : Watashiwa Mare-shia kara kimashita. ( I am from Malaysia. )
Oshin : Ima dochira ni osumai desu ka . (where do you live now? )
Maisara : Chiba ni sundeimasu. ( I live in Chiba).
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common sentence for self introduction are given as below :
1)Kazoku wa go nin desu. ( There are five peoples in my family)
2)shumi wa nan desu ka .(what is your hobby ).
3)shumi wa karaoke desu.(my hobby is karaok).
4)sou desu. (that’s right).
5)[country] kara kimashita.(I’m from [country]).

The Common Words for self introduction:
Watashi - me ,my
kazoku - Family
nihon - japan
shumi - hobby
onnanoko - girl
otoko - boy
ogenki des ka - how are you?
genki des - i’m fine
suwaru - sit
namae - name
watashino - my
~kara - from ( place)

Introduction

Hello guys,

Yokoso (Welcome)!!

Hi, let me introduce myself as kemai.
This page is created to share about some of japanese language that i had experienced since 8 years ago until now.
As you all know most Japanese ppls do not speak english well,
to get closer to Japanese you need to follow their language.
There are a lot of benefits when you got to understand japanese language.First you will get easily involve with Jps friends ,and also could explore Jps book of technologies (high-tech),their culture and art ,traveling,and of course you can read MANGGA and watching Anime movie without subtittle .So in this little space,I would like to dedicate to you guys,my online Jps class.I will try to add as much as i know about JP language here .
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Your comments are highly appreciated .
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