shinta SG think u guys know that i'm taking japanese in school ar... so... watever that i learn in school.. i share with u guys lo see... i'm so good.. will try to explain to the best of my ability.. if there's any mistakes made, be it japanese or english, please correct me My english not very good ar...
shinta SG First thing with Japanese, there are 3 different writing system for the language. 1) Hiragana 2) Katakana 3) Kanji Hiragana The primary function of the Hiragana script is the expression of native Japanese words. It is also the only script used for particles and copulas, and all inflectional endings and verb stems. Example: oniisan (elder brother) kagi (key) Katakana Katakana symbols are used mainly for representing foreign words. Modern Japanese contains a great number of words borrowed from European languages, especially English. These borrowed words are written in Katakana symbols. Example: Amerika (America) Shingapo--ru (Singapore) Kanji This would be the chinese characters that we see, except that, they are not pronounced the way we do in chinese. Example: the chinese words xian1 sheng1 could mean teacher sensei the chinese words da4 xue2 university dai gaku so far so good? Romanji is not part of the writing system tho...
shinta SG thats all for today.. tired sia...slept for only 3 hours... will resume again with some vocabulary that i learnt plus a bit of grammer
monkeybusiness SG i try to help u add on all those i know ok? i learn some on my own under my fren guidance b4 taking it in sch the 2 charts u provided dun hav the words with the 2 " and the small circle... do u know where can get those words?
monkeybusiness SG i was planning to continue learning jap even wen i finish the jap module in sch... go to those jap language sch, cos in sch, dey only teach quite limited leh... wanna go learn together nxt time?
shinta SG The daku-on sounds are derived from 20 of the basic hiragana sounds. These daku-on characters take the diatric marks: ` ` and o reference: daku-on page 1 daku-on page 2[/b]
monkeybusiness SG so now u learning those basic sentences like 1)________ ja arimasen? 2)________ mash|ta?? something like tis?
