Let's write words in Japanese

Hello everybody, こんにちは。

I've made how to type and write Hiragana on the computer before, based on Hiragana chart.

Lets talk about Katakana for a little bit today.

all the sounds are the same as hiragana.

Katakana look boxy and has edgy shapes compares to Hiragana.

Japanese Alphabet (Katakana) Poster
by falkdesigns

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Katakana is used to express foreign words like,

McDonald = マクドナルド　
Ski = スキー　
America = アメリカ
cake = ケーキ
party = パーティー

all sounds are flat in Japanese.

uses the long line to express long sounds　or extend sounds

you may not recognize the words when it pronounced in Japanese but you'll surprised to know a lot of English words are used in Japanese.

how to write / type Katakana is basically the same as how to write Hiragana.

Let's practice writing / typing words.

First, change the setting to Japanese typing mode,

to type Japanese, you need to know how it pronounced the word in Japanese.

type in  = McDonald = makudonarudo = マクドナルド
 hamburger = hanba-ga- = ハンバーガー
hotdog = hottodoggu = ホットドッグ

small つ is used when you skip the sound. to write small つ、type the consonant twice. you can also make the words smaller if you type in x before the word

only works for vowels and small tsu っ　

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