We know that it’s hard to get a good practice for katakana so we try to make one for you. We hope you like it and help you to improve your reading skills! When you’re stumbled, check out our Katakana Guide, memorize them easily using mnemonics!. For additional sounds of Katakana, check out the second part of our guide here. Continue reading
Why there are so many introduction ?? Anyway, there are Verbs and Adjectives in English. So why should we bother to read about them again ?
Why talking about verbs & adjective we already know?
Verbs & Adjectives have a specific types.
In Japanese, the core of grammar is in how to modified/conjugate the verbs, adjective, and nouns. And depending on the type of verbs/adjective, the formula will be different. That is why it’s important to know about the type first before starting to learn the basic sentence. Continue reading
Numbers is one of important basic vocabularies you will be using when traveling in Japan. So let’s start counting! First we will cover ONE to TEN! Continue reading
You can just memorise the set-phrase, use it in a proper situation and amaze all the Japanese you’ll meet ! Wohoo! And we will teach you the magic word in Japanese. Using this word, you should be able to get almost anything you need in Japan!
Let’s start with the most basic, daily greetings!
Welcome to part 2! よこそ！
As a quick info, you will not remember a new shape in this part 2 too since all the shape has been covered in Part 1 ! やった!! .
As previously in hiragana part-2 we will learn additional sound that can be made by adding a tiny circle or quotes or made by combining some of the shape in Katakana. Actually, the formula is the same… So if you already know the Hiragana’s version, just change the Hiragana to Katakana and you’re done~ Continue reading
Katakana… Is basically the same alphabet as Hiragana, it even have the same pronounciation, but with a different shape and have some special rules that is different than Hiragana. Continue reading
There’s a good source to find a lot of hiragana text, which is Japanese children books. But of course, most of us cannot get access to it. Fortunately there’s a wonderful site that compile a lot of old children books text which you can use for practice.
This page takes a few part of Princess Kaguya story and layouted so you can focus practicing Hiragana reading. Continue reading
As a quick info, you will not remember a new shape in this part 2 since all the shape has been covered in Part 1 ! (hurray!?) . So… what will you be learning in this part 2?
You will learn additional sound that can be made by adding a tiny circle or quotes or made by combining some of the shape in Hiragana. Continue reading
Chart|Vowels|K-row|S-row|T-row|N-row|H-row|M-row| Last-row|Quick Summary|Easily differentiate similar shape
There are 3 type of Japanese writing you will encounter and Hiragana is the first type of Japanese alphabet you would want to master. More about Japanese writing can be read in [this post].
Hiragana is the Japanese ABC, and it’s quite different with English since the shape symbolize a set of word/sound such as KA , SO, TSU and SHI. Below you can see the Hiragana chart, all the shape we’re going to master~ Continue reading
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