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Starry Starry Fright Captain
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 Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 4:37 pm
Hello my students and welcome to your first kana/kanji lesson.
There are three alphabets used to write Japanese, but for now we will start with the most useful and basic of them - Hiragana.
Hiragana can be used to write any Japanese word, and any written sentence is sure to contain some Hiragana. So let's start learning it.
Every character responds to a syllable, and one syllable only. There are no silent letters in Japanese. The vowel sounds are different than English sounds though - when you see "a i u e o" pronounce it " ahh eee oooo eh oh".
TO help you on your hiragana learning journey, I will now bombard you with internet resources. Yay!
This is a chart of all the hiragana. If you click the characters, it will say them for you:
http://www.tokyowithkids.com/fyi/hiragana_chart.html
This is a youtube video of hiragana being read to a dance beat. You can find related helpful videos in the sidebar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWR1Ziynt8g
And finally, lots of games to play to help you memorize:
http://genkienglish.net/genkijapan/hiragana1.htm
http://www.fupa.com/play/Puzzles-free-games/htlj-hiragana.html
http://www.tamarillo.net.au/hiragana/learn_hiragana_game.html
http://www.learn-hiragana-katakana.com/review-play-hiragana-game/
This concludes your first lesson! Hiragana is so important to writing Japanese, I can't say it enough! Learning is a slow process, so our next few lessons will be about reviewing and checking our progress.
Questions? Concerns? Post them as a reply to this lesson. If you understood everything, write a reply that says something like " I understand and I will memorize this as soon as I can!" so I can keep track of who is actually reading each lesson!
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Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 9:21 pm
Very helpful~ Oh and I enjoyed the second link the most.
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Starry Starry Fright Captain
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Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 1:17 pm
I wish there was some way to get that dance beat onto an iPod... rofl
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 4:07 pm
Yep. On to the next lesson~
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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 5:58 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:49 pm
Is stroke order important yet or is that for later? I can't seem to find a stroke order chart or anything similar that I can print out from the internet. D:<
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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:48 am
I understand and I will memorize this as soon as I can! I'll try my best heart
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Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:53 pm
Nintendo Princess Is stroke order important yet or is that for later? I can't seem to find a stroke order chart or anything similar that I can print out from the internet. D:< Stroke order "technically" matters... but you typically start at the top and go left to right and work down. Check out this page for more details. http://japanese.about.com/library/blqow23.htm
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Starry Starry Fright Captain
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:45 am
I'm trying words that I'm used to saying first before I try writing any sentences in Hirgana, but I have a question. For 'Kawaii' would I have two characters for the two i's or no?
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Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 4:38 pm
XVI Shiranui I'm trying words that I'm used to saying first before I try writing any sentences in Hirgana, but I have a question. For 'Kawaii' would I have two characters for the two i's or no? Yes, you definitely would.
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Starry Starry Fright Captain
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Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 9:35 am
Starry Starry Fright XVI Shiranui I'm trying words that I'm used to saying first before I try writing any sentences in Hirgana, but I have a question. For 'Kawaii' would I have two characters for the two i's or no? Yes, you definitely would. Ok, thank you biggrin
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:26 pm
I understand. Ho ho ho. :D
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 3:37 pm
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Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:35 pm
this posting site are good it very helpful but i think i need more practice on it. it very complex looking. i have to practice more. i got the lesson down just i need to practice more in Hiragana.
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