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.

Table of Hiragana Letters
Table of Katakana Letters     Ultimate table!

In this lesson, we will concentrate to Katakana characters with the following reasons.


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.

  1. Look in the Katakana chart, and identify each character of the word.
  2. Figure out how they are pronounced, and actually sound out the word.
  3. 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