published in: Japanese Language
A while ago I posted on how to recognise and read Hiragana alphabets. For those crazy people out there who are still interested in getting to know more of this maddest language, here’s how to recognise and remember the second of Japanese characters – Katakana.
Let’s dig an underground tunnel! ア as in “underground“.
I want an easel. イ as in
“easel“.
published in: Japanese Language
Japanese is a truly crazy language. I really think so. Not only it has two sets of alphabets – called Hiragana and Katakana. Each set of these has nearly 50 alphabets in them. It also boasts an incredible number of Kanji characters that are adopted from Chinese. Now there are 1,945 of these Kanji you have to lean in the school. To top it all, you should be able to at least read between three to four thousand of them to be called well-educated. Getting perplexed? Good. I am, and I was born, bred and have gone through the education system there and the whole damn language still doesn’t make sense.
For a low-down on it, Wikipedia has a very good summary of it – have a look at this page for it.
For those of you who are still interested in this worlds-most-perplexing-language, here’s a starter for you. How to recognise and read the most basic of Japanese alphabets that is Hiragana. Have fun!
An antenna is on top of the roof. あ as in “antenna.”
