Konnichiwa!!! Did you practice the commonly used Aisatsu? I will be more surprise if you do. Anyway, in this next lesson, I am going to introduce the Japanese character that Japanese people are using. But if you want to know how to speak Japanese, you must be know first to write the Japanese characters.
There are three kinds of letters in Japanese, the Hiragana, Katakana and the Kanji (Chinese characters). Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic representations of sounds and each letter basically corresponds to one mora (a unit of sounds). Kanji convey meanings as well as sounds.
In Japanese script, all three types of letters are used together. Katakana are used to write foreign names and loan words. 1945 kanji letters are fixed essential for daily use. Hiragana are used to write particles, the infelctibles parts of words, etc.
As of now, it is better to memorize the hiragana characters first. It will be easy for you memorize the katakana if you know how to read and write the hiragana letters. Below, is a chart of hiragana characters. Practice it and memorize each letters.
While practice writing Hiragana, it is better if you will do it properly. Every letter has its own arrangement and form of writing. One thing to remember is try to pronounce it while writing so that it will be easy for you to memorize it in writing and speech form. For now, that will be our topic for lesson 1. Looking forward to see you on our next lesson which I will give you some vocabulary words related to the Hiragana characters. Ja`ne..
