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ryanloveyukie

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Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 4:29 pm Post subject: hiragana and katakana?

help me pls!!!! what's this two words means........ are they japanese language? _________________

TrigunX89

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Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject:

Hiragana and Katakana are the two most basic forms of written Japanese language. This is a useful page for more info and descriptions.

ryanloveyukie

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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 3:19 pm Post subject:

TrigunX89 wrote:

Hiragana and Katakana are the two most basic forms of written Japanese language. This is a useful page for more info and descriptions.

thx.... but how they differ????

ok ok ill check the site.....

arigato gozaimas tirgunx89!!!!!!!!! ^^
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dochira

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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject:

It's in that link.

ryanloveyukie

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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 3:31 pm Post subject:

but hiragana letters are not the same with katakana letter..... how bout it? _________________

dochira

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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject:

ryanloveyukie wrote:

but hiragana letters are not the same with katakana letter..... how bout it?

From link:

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Hiragana is used along with kanji to write all native Japanese words (including words of Chinese origin). Hiragana is used for verb and adjective endings (okurigana), particles, words that have no kanji, words which are commonly written only in kana, words for which the writer does not know the kanji, and as furigana (hints provided by the writer to the reading of an unfamiliar kanji).
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Katakana is used for loan words from western languages, including foreign names. It is used for emphasis similar to the way that italics are used in English. It is also used to replace the many unfamiliar kanji of things like fish or produce at a market or restaurant.

ahochaude

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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:09 pm Post subject:

guh, you'd think that if he read the contents in which that link provided, the last question wouldn't have been presented?

maAkusutipen

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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:39 pm Post subject:

Katakana is also useful for representing sounds and onomatopeas... One example is the snicker or light laughing.... westerners usually say "hehehehe" but japanese use "kukukuku" and its written in katakana. Sorry i can't use IME because the browser i am using is Firefox and IME is not supported by my browser

ryanloveyukie

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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject:

i see thx guys...... but how can i learn hiragana and katakana when theres no teacher around? i think i need one coz its really dificult to learn it without any help from a teacher!!!!!! _________________

maAkusutipen

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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:01 pm Post subject:

Youre from the phuil right... hehehe obvious isn it... hehehe you could go to your friendly National Bookstore... they have books there that teach you... But one jem of a book is from Meriam Webster bookstore the title of the book is Japanese for today but the weird thing is the Japanese sub-title of the book is "atarashii nihongo" which loosely translates to New Japanese. I think it was used as a text book during the japanese occupancy in the Phil. hehehe one more good book is one that can be bought the ORP (office of Research and Publications) at the Ateneo. Its untitled as 10 lessons in Japanese LAnguage and Culture. Its Japanese title is "nihongo" written in kanji

ryanloveyukie

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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject:

yah im from phil.... i already bought one...but its useless... -.- do u know a japanese lesson here? u know with a teacher!!!! _________________

maAkusutipen

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Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject:

Japanese Foundation... official cla... its along espana just search the net but the classes are very expensive but japanese nationals as teachers... if you are a college student... there are japanese classes at lasalle, up, benilde and ateneo... I also think that in the nursing schools they have japanese classes but you wont get the quality with the schools listed above

ryanloveyukie

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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 1:34 pm Post subject:

oh i see? how expensive??? 7 thousand a month? _________________

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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject:

ryanloveyukie wrote:

i see thx guys......

but how can i learn hiragana and katakana when theres no teacher around? i think i need one coz its really dificult to learn it without any help from a teacher!!!!!!

its easy to learn hiragana and katakana.
first choose which one you want to learn first.
right down the romaji of the basic kana like this

a, i, u ,e ,o

ka, ki, ku, ke, ko

sa, shi, su, se, so

ta, chi, tsu, te, to

na, ni, nu, ne, no

ha, hi, fu, he, ho

ma, mi, mu, me, mo

ya, yu, yo

ra, ri, ru, re, ro

wa, o/wo

n

then fill it with the kana

hiragana

katakana

do this a few times a day, everyday and you'll get it Victory! Peace!

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Singhay

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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 2:11 pm Post subject:

Once you learn A, I, U, E, O, the rest is easy. The hardest part in Japanese for me are the frickin markers.

ryanloveyukie

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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:30 pm Post subject:

a-nesuto wrote:

katakana

do this a few times a day, everyday and you'll get it Victory! Peace!

two parts T_T

can i only use hiragana? and not katakana?
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dochira

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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:55 am Post subject:

^ See my previous post.

suave_yamapi

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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:20 am Post subject:

yay, I learnt hiragana in about 3 days and I can write 8 kanjis yay..!! I'm such a natural XD haha just kidding.. I'm just really interested and when I'm interested in a subject I learn it faster...

dochira

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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:22 am Post subject:

Congrats. Now hundreds of kanji to go. Wow, I need to relearn my kanji. The phonetical ones I think I still know.

suave_yamapi

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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:26 am Post subject:

I just don't really know how to begin to learn kanji.... there are so many o_O ...

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