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Japanese has why "Katakana" must be used.

Katakana(カタカナ/片仮名) is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji, and in some cases the Latin alphabet.
Katakana are characterized by short, straight strokes and angular corners, and are the simplest of the Japanese scripts.

The katakana is used for the notation of the word of loan word mainly.

 

1. Difficult loan word to translate into Japanese.
2. Loanword that has been established as Japanese.
3. Japanized English.
4. Emphasis of word in advertising media.

1. Difficult loan word to translate into Japanese.

Example	Katakana notation	Pronunciation
Design	デザイン	dezain
Image	イメージ	imeeji(imēji)
Gasoline	ガソリン	gasorin
Fastener	ファスナー	fasunaa(fasunā)
Hard disk	ハードディスク	haado disuku(hādo dhisuku)
Antenna	アンテナ	antena

Other: country names, foreign places, personal names, animal ,plant species, and minerals etc.

2. Loanword that has been established as Japanese. .

Example	Katakana notation	Pronunciation
Camera	カメラ	kamera
Taxi	タクシー	takushii
Apron	エプロン	epuron
Elevator	エレベーター	erebetaa(erebētā)
U-turn	ユーターン	yuu taa n(yūtān)
Volume	ボリューム	boryuumu(boryūmu)
Monitor	モニター	monitaa(monitā)

 

3. Japanized English.

Example	Katakana notation	Pronunciation
PC	パソコン	pasokon
The keeping of one's own bottle of liquor in one's favorite bar.	ボトルキープ	botoru kiipu
Air conditioner	エアコン	eakon
Custom-made	オーダーメード	oodaa meido(ōdā meido)
Last orders; Last call	オーダーストップ	oda sutoppu(ōdā sutoppu)
One-room apartment	ワンルームマンション	wan ruumu manshon) (wan rūmu manshon)
The state that does not become independent from mother mentally.	マザコン	mazakon

4. Katakana for emphasis by advertising media.

Katakana are used for emphasis, especially on signs, advertisements, and hoardings (i.e., billboards).
The consumer receives the strong impression to the advertisement by "Originally, word that should write by the kanji or the hiragana"'s being written by the katakana.

The katakana word used for this advertisement is very impressive.

 

Hararie

 

 

Katakana which is one of the basic element symbols of Japan.

The katakana is used when chiefly following.

 

1. Difficult loan word to translate into Japanese.
2. Loanword that has been established as Japanese.
3. Japanized English.
4. Emphasis of word in advertising media.
   

The Katakana syllabary PDF file which you can download for free.

Katakana syllabary.pdf

 

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To learn the katakana

ALL ABOUT KATAKANA

Product Description:

Katakana should be the easiest way to approach the Japanese written language since it is used to write all kinds of loanwords that the reader is already familiar with. However, until recently katakana has been taught as if students of the language were all Japanese kindergarten or elementary school kids--ready, more-or-less willing, and having the time and motivation to learn the traditional katakana chart by rote.

With the present book, as soon as individual characters are introduced, they are immediately used to form actual, commonplace, everyday words. Thus, from the very first page of Lesson 1, the reader of this book is able not only to read and write two characters, but to read several words formed with those characters. Each succeeding lesson adds to the number of katakana that one can read and write, and as a matter of course to the student's functional vocabulary. With the dual Japanese-English and English-Japanese glossaries at the end of the book, the reader has more than a thousand words at his or her command. Quizzes are included for those who wish to test their progress and reinforce what they have learned. Thanks to All About Katakana, katakana is now a snap.

 

 

 

 

The katakana is Script as basic as the hiragana.

How is training for writing a katakana?

As well as the hiragana, the number of fundamental katakana scripts is 50 in all.

When growing up to seven years old, we enter the school.
And we learns Hiragana and Katakana first.

And as well as the hiragana we usually do reading perpendicularly, when reading a katakana table.

　"a, i, u, e, o
　　(ア,イ,ウ,エ,オ)"

　"ka, ki, ku, ku,ke, ko
　　(カ,キ,ク,ケ,コ)"

　"sa, shi, su, se, so
　　(サ,シ,ス,セ,ソ)".......

Did you notice it?
The pronunciation is the same though the hiragana and the katakana are different shape.

Therefore, if you have already acquired the pronunciation of the hiragana, you don't have to learn the pronunciation of the katakana.
You will only have to learn only the shape of the katakana.

As well as the hiragana, we usually do writing perpendicularly, when writing a hiragana table.
The script row of this length is called "gyo".
Can you see the number on each big katakana ?
It is the stroke order of writing the katakana.

 

 

Let's write slowly noting the number and the arrow.

I prepared the PDF version of the stroke order of each "GYO".
Figure below is it.
Please use it to training of your writing the katakana script.

Katakana is easier than hiragana.
However, if you do not write the katakana many times, you will not be able to acquire the katakana.

It expands when you click this image.

 

Download: Training sheet to write katakana script.

gyo name	Each katakana script training seat
ア行 [a gyo]	ア、イ a-i.pdf	ウ、エ u-e.pdf	オ o.pdf
カ行 [ka gyo]	カ、キ ka-ki.pdf	ク、ケ ku-ke.pdf	コ ko.pdf
サ行 [sa gyo]	サ、シ sa-shi.pdf	ス、セ su-se.pdf	ソ so.pdf
タ行 [ta gyo]	タ、チ ta-chi.pdf	ツ、テ tsu-te.pdf	ト to.pdf
ナ行 [na gyo]	ナ、ニ na-ni.pdf	ヌ、ネ nu-ne.pdf	ノ no.pdf
ハ行 [ha gyo]	ハ、ヒ ha-hi.pdf	フ、ヘ fu-he.pdf	ホ ho.pdf
マ行 [ma gyo]	マ、ミ ma-mi.pdf	ム、メ mu-me.pdf	モ mo.pdf
ヤ行 [ya gyo]	ヤ、ユ ya-yu.pdf	ヨ yo.pdf	-----
ラ行 [ra gyo]	ラ、リ ra-ri.pdf	ル、レ ru-re.pdf	ロ ro.pdf
ワ行 [wa gyo]	ワ、ヲ wa-wo.pdf	ン n.pdf	-----

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