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Learn Basic Japanese: Hiragana 平仮名 & Katagana 片仮名 (Lesson 0)

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Uploaded by on Jan 19, 2010

Hi there!

Just something to begin with!

Hope the method is interesting and effective enough. :-)

Cheers, Eddie Chin

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  • shi looks like a smiley face

  • @MEMEMEMEMEMEME06 LOL, never thought of that! :-)

  • Thank you for the Hiragana and the Katagana and it was not too slow for this beginner. I am watching Japanese dramas to get become familiar with the language, I'm hoping to visit some time in 2012 please god. It's good to see the written letters and the sounds go together. I wondered significance of the top and bottom writing above the sounds. Is it the two alphabets or upper and lower case letters.

  • @elizamannion2363 Hiragana (the top) is the traditional Japanese "alphabets". Whereas Katagana (the bottom) is generally used for imports of foreign languages (English) such as computer パソコン, hamburger ハンバーガー, party パーティ etc. ^.^

  • what the different katagana and hiragana???

  • @thiera0993 Katagana is used for words directly imported from other languages, such as computer (komputa), names like Brad Pitt (burado pitto)... things like that.

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  • Sorry for that. You must know them very well. It was intentional because I thought of giving more time to recognise the characters.

  • @goodymanga it's not too slow.. if you had rushed the symbols through the video fast, i would have lost interest!!

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  • Thank you so much!!

  • KataKana.

  • the font has to be simpler than this.. this looks like calligraphy, why didnt you use a more traditional font?

  • @thiera0993 and hiragana is used for the daily life in japan.

  • @goodymanga Can you add Romaji, and Kanji?

  • @animeotakuyuri your right. lol

  • I always thought it was カタカナ and not カタガナ …

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