Japanese basics for every day 1

17 October 2017

Japanese: every Day A basic in Japanese Language Alphabet

Japanese language it is considered one of the most difficult idiom in the world for the following reasons: 1) Structure of the sentence 2) Mixed Syllabic and ideogram system 3) A lot of words with the same sounds 4) Some ideogram (kanji) with two different pronunciation 5) Vowel/consonant harmony

Hiragana e Katakana Hiragana and Katakana are 2 different syllabic alphabet adopted by Japanese language The word Kana/Gana derives from karina, this is means borrowed name Hira means ordinary or cursive while kata means partially.

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17 October 2017

So Japanese borrowed some parts or some writings to write down the sounds or the grammatical functions, we shall see every day a little bit. Today we shall start with “a” Hiragana

あ Katakana

ア Kanji 漢字 Kanji or Chinese characters have been imported from old China or by meaning or by sounds.

Chinese it is not a syllabic language and each 漢字 has a meaning.

We have some 漢字 derived from images and we call them pictograms we start with them

⽇

漢漢字

that means Sun or day and have 2 pronunciation 1) Hi 2) Nichi

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