User:Kawaiiichi

Kawaiiichi こん日はタリアベネットです. [I am Talia Bennett.] I am currently learning Japanese and I use Wikipedia for all research projects. If I can make an account on a much used website of mine, why not have an account. So, this is my page. Please enjoy. :)

Japanese Lessons

PRONUNCIATION OF JAPANESE VOWELS

There are 5 different vowels in Japanese. They are a               [as in father] i               [as in cheese](i is a ee sound) u               [as in Jupiter] e               [as in egg] and o               [as in hope.]

All vowels are pronounced this way no matter the structure of the sentence.

Special Rules

Now, there are 3 extra rules to read japanese. 1.) if a small ya, yu, or yo is present after a sign, then the word will have that attached y sound. 2.) If there is a small tsu in front of a sign, then the consonant of the next sign is doubled. 3.) Vowels are used to lengthen sounds of other vowels. Like a u will be written but it's only there to make the o sound longer. A sounds are lengthened with a. I is lengthened with i. U is lengthened with u. E is lengthened with a. And O is lengthend with u. Ohayo would be pronounced "o-ha-yo" while ohayou (or ohayoo) is pronouned "o-ha-yo-o." Japanese speakers can easily tell if a sound is shortened or lengthened.

WRITING STYLES

There are three types of writing styles in Japan. The 3 types are hiragana, katakana, and kanji. I know hiragana, katakana, and I know about 60 kanji. Hiragana is the most common and is usually the first to be learned, katakana is for words adapted from other languages (learned after hiragana), and kanji is used as a more formal way for wrting.

Kanji originated from China and Japan adapted it with their language. But one japanese woman didn't want to write in kanji for everything. So she created hiragana which is very curvy and feminine. Hiragana slowly adapted as another way of writing. So ,many years later, a buddhist monk decided that he didn't want to write so femininly. He created katakana which is very straight and has a lack of curves in the writing. This is how all 3 styles originated in japan.

Greetings

There are many ways to say hello in any different language. Here are ways to say hello in Japanese.

ohayou: Good morning. ohayou gozaimasu: Good morning (polite way to say good morning.) konnichiwa: Good afternoon. konbanwa: Good evening

Common Kanji

Here are the kanji for numbers.

（1-10）

一 （ichi） 二 （ni） 三 （san） 四 （shi） 五 （go） 六 （roku） 七 （nana） 八 （hachi） 九 （ku） 十 （jyuu） （1,000）

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