I have never understood why Japanese people generally assume that words in katakana, the angular syllabary, are easier for nonnative speakers to master than words in hiragana, the rounded syllabary. Consider the five katakana phrases with suto: ensuto,... ...full story at Japan Times
from Japan Times on Fri, Jul 11 2008
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| 26 Jan 08 |
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KCP Study Abroad in Tokyo #6 Katakana Words »
YouTube video I've been making more videos than I expected so far. I guess I'm going to quantity instead of quality.
This video is about Katakana words which are kind of amusing to English speakers because many of the borrowed words are derived from English.
If you... |
| 21 Jul 08 |
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Katakana makes Japanese trendy and accessible » Japan Times Words and phrases in katakana may appear to be easily recognizable to non-native speakers of Japanese, but they are often fiendishly difficult. This generally comes as a surprise to Japanese, who naturally assume that we can understand katakana words... |
| 21 Feb 08 |
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Hiragana » Japan Visitor ひらがなA few weeks ago we looked at katakana (カタカナ). Today we are going to focus on the other syllabary (an alphabet of syllables) in the Japanese written language - hiragana (ひらがな).As katakana are square and angular in design, hirag... |
| 31 Jan 08 |
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Katakana » Japan Visitor カタカナJapanese has three alphabets: Chinese characters or kanji (漢字), hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ).Hiragana and katakana are phonectic syllabaries made up of 46 characters. The first five characters of both hiragana and k... |
| 03 Nov 08 |
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Book Reviews › Kodansha's Katakana Workbook » Japan Today "Kodansha's Katakana Workbook" is an all-new, streamlined workbook designed for beginner-level students who want to learn katakana, the Japanese script used for writing loanwords, as… |
| 16 Jun 08 |
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King Kojien dictionary knights new words » Japan Times The four writing systems utilized in Japanese (>kanji, katakana, hiragana and the Roman alphabet, known as romaji ) provide Japanese advertising copywriters, journalists and young people with an abundance of raw material from which to create new words.... |
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