User:Nadia El Borai/Learning Japanese
Japanese Language
A few tips on learning Japanese. Japanese is made up of 3 different writing scripts
Then there is something called : Rōmaji, Japanese written in the latin alphabet but read in a specific way.
Katakana and Hiragana are phonetic sounds. Both are derived from Kanji or Chinese characters but in a simplified form Katakana is specifically used for writing words from foreign languages, or foreign names. Words borrowed from English like television which becomes terebi. Katakana and : Hiragana have exactly the same number of characters.
Useful pages for learning
Elementary school Kanji here First grade Kanji
How to write the characters on Youtube First Grade Kanji writing
A blog to help French speakers learn Japanese Apprendre le japonais en Geek
Pronunciation
Most people will probably have no difficulty in pronouncing Japanese. There are no ending with consonants, the t sound would be either ta, ti, tu or to. The un sound is difficult to hear especially when it is inside a word,
