日本語 にほんご ニホンゴ クラブ
Nihongo Club at Irving School in March & April, 2013 (modified for XRT use)
Japanese uses three kind of character sets.
- Hiragana（ひらがな）-- Most basic character set. Phonograms.
- Katakana（カタカナ）-- Used for words adopted from freign languages.
Phonograms.
- Kanji（漢字）-- Imported from China (A.C. ~300). Idiograms.
example: 山 川 木 高
Table of Hiragana Letters
Table of Katakana Letters
Ultimate table!
In this lesson, we will concentrate to Katakana characters
with the following reasons.
- used for freign words, so you can cut the step of translation.
- limited to noun.(cf: Hiraganas are often used in combination with Kanji.)
フレア
コロナ
Group A: accent on the first letter
ツネタ (Tsuneta), シバタ (Shibata),
シミズ (Shimizu)
Group B: accent on the second letter
ヨシムラ (Yoshimura), ヨコヤマ (Yokoyama),
サカオ (Sakao), タケダ (Takeda),
ハラ (Hara)
Group C: flat
ナルカゲ (Narukage), イシバシ (Ishibashi)
Three(3) steps to understand Katakana words.
- Look in the Katakana chart, and identify each character of the word.
- Figure out how they are pronounced, and actually sound out the word.
- From the sound you made, guess the English word from which the word come.
ラーメン
チーズ
ミルク
ニュース
スポーツ
ビール
パン
アルバイト