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HIRAGANA
HIRAGANA
Published on Friday, October, 18th 2019
Author : りん
Learning Japanese can be intimidating at first, mainly because the language is written using a combination of phonetic and logographic characters, with the former being hiragana and katakana, and the latter being kanji.
Japanese belongs to its own language family, and within this family there are many dialects that are spoken all over Japan. Japanese also use Chinese characters in their language because in the past no written language used by Japanese people, so they started to use Chinese characters to express their own language in written form.
Japanese shares little in common with most other languages, so it’s commonly known as an “isolated” language. However, Japanese has been influenced by other languages and it borrows many loanwords from them.
Learning about Japanese facts are one thing and learning the language is another thing. To start learning Japanese you need to learn Hiragana and Katakana.
Hiragana
Hiragana is Japan’s version of alphabet. The ability to read hiragana is important for most beginner. Take a look at the chart below.
You can start to study Hiragana, practice using some words in Japanese and try to write it in Hiragana. Try to watch and listen a couple of video below or even website.
After memorizing all characters in Hiragana, you must learned five more consonant sounds that are written by either affixing something similar to double quotation mark called dakuten （濁点）or a tiny circle called handakuten （半濁点. The dakuten only applied to ha, ta, sa and ka line. The handakuten only applied to ha line.）
As we see from the chart above, we can combine hiragana to make some new sound, First we see small ゃ, ゅ, and ょ. You can only combine this with いline. (き, し, じ, に, etc.)
Small っ
This small っ is like a double consonant in romaji (ex: itta, shitta, etc.) You will never find this in あいうえお line, so rest assure. For pronouncing this small っ you will add a small stop where the small っ exist, so you will hear two separate sound before the stop and after it.
That’s all for hiragana, Try to write, read, speak and listen as much as you can. So you can easily differentiate each sound and rules above. I will leave some website and video where you can learn more about this. Wish you all The best!
https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/hiragana
https://realkana.com/hiragana/ à APP
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/hiragana_ex --> exercise
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