| Learn Japanese: Hiragana Symbols |
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Katakana Version is here:
http://genkienglish.net/genkijapan/katakanaso
ng.htm
Hiragana to a dance beat. A simple way to
Learn Japanese Symbols. Which do you prefer,
this or the katakana symbols song?
http://genkienglish.net/genkijapan/katakanaso
ng.htm
http://genkienglish.net/genkijapan/hiraganaso
ng.htm
A few people have commented on the ko
こ and て characters. I assure you
they are correct in the video, and that is
how some people write them. But we maybe
could have chosen a more distinct font for
newcomers. Sorry about that!
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| Hiragana 'a' |
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Write hiragana 'a' too quickly and look what
might happen...
[Of course the method of confirming the
phenomenon would have been a lot more sound
if they hadn't told the guy what would
happen! They should just have said, 'Write
quickly'.]
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| Hiragana Katakana JSL |
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I edited a IPA's educational free video clip
featuring a Japanese sign language on the
basic phonics.
Hope this helps those who are learning
Japanese Hiragana, Katakana, or JSL.
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| Hiragana Pronunciation: Japanese Alphabet Syllabary |
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Hiragana (平仮名, ひらがな
or ヒラガナ, Hiragana?) is a Japanese
syllabary, one component of the Japanese
writing system, along with katakana and
kanji; the Latin alphabet is also used in
some cases. Hiragana and katakana are both
kana systems, in which each symbol represents
one mora. Each kana is either a vowel (such
as a あ); a consonant followed by a vowel
(such as ka か); or n ん, a nasal sonorant
which, depending on the context, sounds
either like English m, n, or ng (IPA: [ŋ]),
or like the nasal vowels of French.
Hiragana are used for words for which there
are no kanji, including particles such as
kara から "from," and suffixes such as ~san
さん "Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms." Hiragana are
also used in words for which the kanji form
is not known to the writer or readers, or is
too formal for the writing purpose. Verb and
adjective inflections, as, for example, BE MA
SHI TA (べました) in tabemashita
(食べました, tabemashita? "ate"), are
written in hiragana. In this case, part of
the root is also written in hiragana.
Hiragana are also used to give the
pronunciation of kanji in a reading aid
called furigana. The article Japanese writing
system discusses in detail when the various
systems of writing are used.
There are two main systems of ordering
hiragana, the old-fashioned iroha ordering,
and the more prevalent gojūon ordering.
The hiragana consist of a basic set of
characters, the gojūon, which can be
modified in various ways. By adding a dakuten
marker ( ゛), an unvoiced consonant such as
k or t is turned into a voiced consonant such
as g or d: k→g, t→d, s→z, and h→b.
Hiragana beginning with an h can also add a
handakuten marker ( ゜) changing the h to a
p. A small version of the hiragana for ya, yu
or yo (ゃ, ゅ or ょ respectively) may be
added to hiragana ending in i. This changes
the i vowel sound to a glide palatalization.
Addition of the small y kana is called yōon.
A small tsu っ called a sokuon indicates a
geminate (doubled) consonant. It appears
before fricatives and stops, and sometimes at
the end of sentences. This is represented in
rōmaji by doubling the following consonant.
In informal writing, small versions of the
five vowel kana are sometimes used to
represent trailing off sounds (はぁ,
ねぇ).
There are a few hiragana which are rarely
used. Wi ゐ and we ゑ are obsolete. Vu ゔ
is a modern addition used to represent the
/v/ sound in foreign languages such as
English, but since Japanese from a
phonological standpoint does not have a /v/
sound, it is pronounced as /b/ and mostly
serves as a more accurate indicator of a
word's pronunciation in its original
language. However, it is rarely seen because
loanwords and transliterated words are
usually written in katakana, where the
corresponding character would be written as
ヴ.
With a few exceptions for sentence particles
は, を, and へ (pronounced as wa, o, and
e), and a few other arbitrary rules, Japanese
is spelled as it sounds. This has not always
been the case: a previous system of spelling,
now referred to as historical kana usage, had
many spelling rules; the exceptions in modern
usage are the legacy of that system. The
exact spelling rules are referred to as
kanazukai (仮名遣, kanazukai?).
There are two hiragana pronounced ji (じ and
ぢ) and two hiragana pronounced zu (ず and
づ). These pairs are not interchangeable.
Usually, ji is written as じ and zu is
written as ず. There are some exceptions. If
the first two syllables of a word consist of
one syllable without a dakuten and the same
syllable with a dakuten, the same hiragana is
used to write the sounds. For example
chijimeru (to boil down or to shrink) is
spelled ちぢめる. For compound words
where the dakuten reflects rendaku voicing,
the original hiragana is used. For example,
chi (血 "blood") is spelled ち in plain
hiragana. When 鼻 hana (nose) and 血 chi
("blood") combine to make hanaji 鼻血 "nose
bleed"), the sound of 血 changes from chi to
ji. So hanaji is spelled はなぢ according
to ち: the basic hiragana used to transcribe
血. Similarly, Tsukau (使う; "to use") is
spelled つかう in hiragana, so kanazukai
(かな使い; "kana use", or "kana
orthography") is spelled かなづかい in
hiragana.
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| Kanji/Hiragana Question |
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Question with regards to can Kanji and
Hiragana be used within the same sentance. I
have a 'unique' symbol for 'watashi' and
although it can be made up of 3 hiragana
kana, it's not.
Hopefully someone can help me on the right
track and forward any suggestions for very
basic level Japanese students.
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