HIRAGANA (Japanese phonetic alphabet 1)

I made this for myself. The alphabet is correct but pronunciation is by me so shouldn't be taken by anyone for granted. I tried to copy the natuve speaker but I'm quite bad at it.

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Education

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• hiragana
• japanese alphabet
• japanese writing
• how to write in japanese
• japanese language

[StormRiderZX]

So if i learn pronunciation what about the writing. i cant remember the symbols I mean. Is it like learning how to write abc's I just keep writing them on a piece of paper like when i was a kid.

[CrazyLassi]

@StormRiderZX To learn writing you have to write a lot. Try to get a Japanese textbook and copy words in hiragana first, say them aloud while you're writing, then do the same with katakana. It is hard to remember them separately but easy if you write them in a word.

[marshmallow054]

i dont get the difference between hiragana, katakana, and kenji..

which one do there write the most in??? which one is easier??

[CrazyLassi]

@marshmallow054 The difference is very easy. Japanese uses three alphabets: hiragana, katakana and kanji. All are necessary to learn in order to be literate in Japanese. For beginners and young children it is advised to learn hiragana (ひらがな）which is a phonetic alphabet and children's books are actually written in hiragana. The second easiest alphabet is katakana (カタカナ) which is used to write foreign names only. Kanji （漢字）or Chinese characters are the hardest to learn.

[dreamyfishXD]

Sorry, I just wanna know is a word make up of several alphabets together, like english?

[CrazyLassi]

@dreamyfishXD A Japanese word can be made up using kanji or hiragana, only kanji and only hiragana or katakana, if that's what you mean. Anyway hiragana and katakana 'alphabets' are actually syllabaries which means that one Japanese 'letter' would equal one English syllable (like in hi-ra-ga-na would be written using 4 letters ひ-ら-が-な). If only that was what you meant in your question.

[MsMac250]

whre is da ji  zu de do

[MsMac250]

hey fuckers where is ga gi gu ge go u forget

[Wolfyxxx91]

@spartan2558 hhaha, same here :3

[spartan2558]

lol i'm trying so hard to understand japanese but it's very hard when you only know english and spanish. . but i won't give up

[TecBrothers]

@WithxMyxUnseeingxEye lol my friend is chinese too and she is forcing me to teach her japanese (i already know it). She is going to have the same problems ^-^

[WithxMyxUnseeingxEye]

Since I'm chinese, I get a slight advantage since I already know all the kanji...and I've already memorised the Hiragana and Katakana. However, learning to form sentences is verrrry difficult indeed. Everyone must understand though, that there IS A DISADVANTAGE in being Chinese. Mostly all the Kanji in Chinese is pronounced completely differently than Japanese, which is why it is so easy to get the sounds mixed up. Your brain automatically pops up with the Chinese pronounciation of the character

[benglishtea]

@xxIVIooIVIoofarmzxx If you want to say "I am" in Japanese, you wouldn't spell out the English words, you would use the Japanese words. Not all sounds in English can be made in Japanese -- actually, there are many sounds in English that can't be made/spelled in Japanese (which is one of the reasons why you'll see katakana words made specifically for new or foreign terms). If I wanted to say "I am Brandon," I could just say "Brandon desu," which basically means "Brandon I am." "Desu" (です).

[benglishtea]

@EmmieDragon It would be エミリー which is pronounced "Emirī," or "Em-ee-ree," basically. It isn't really an "r" sound as much as a soft "L."

[ambiee98]

How do yhu say abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz in japanese

[EmmieDragon]

i wonder how you would spell Emily in this language.....