ひらがな

Learning hiragana (ひらがな) ③ (っ, ゃ, ゅ, ょ) and basic Japanese words (にほんご) in 3 minutes

Learning Japanese

• 2019.08.07
• Basic Japanese, Hiragana, ひらがな

Welcome back to the complete beginner course of Japanese. After all, this is the last lesson of hiragana. Yay! If you haven’t seen the previous post, here is the link.   After finishing this lesson, you can understand theoretically every single word written in hiragana. So, take it easy, and here we go!   Learning hiragana (ひらがな) ③(っ, ゃ, ゅ, ょ) and essential Japanese words（にほんご) in 3 minutes How to use and type (っ, ゃ, ゅ, ょ)? The reason why I said it is easy is that technically, you have already learned about つ、や、ゆ、よ in the very first lesson of hiragana. So, you need to recognize that (っ, ゃ, ゅ, ょ) are just a small version of (つ、や、ゆ、よ).   When you type (っ, ゃ, ゅ, ょ), you need to add “x” in front of つ(tsu)、や(ya)、ゆ(yu)、よ(yo). To put it differently, you can type like っ(xtsu), ゃ(xya), ゅ(xyu), ょ(xyo). You can download Japanese IME from here.   “っ” can only make sense between other hiragana. For instance, まって(matte); wait   We don’t use ( ゃ, ゅ, ょ) solely, but they are only put down after （き、し、ち、に、ひ、み、り、じ、び、ぴ.）   In other words, only the following patterns exist. きゃ(kya),   きゅ(kyu),   きょ(kyo) しゃ(sha),   しゅ(shu),   しょ(sho) ちゃ(cha),  ちゅ(chu),   ちょ(cho) […]

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Learning hiragana (ひらがな) ②(゛,゜) and basic Japanese words（にほんご) in 5 minutes

Learning Japanese

• 2019.08.03
• Basic Japanese, beginner, Hiragana, ひらがな

Welcome back to a beginner course in learning Japanese（にほんご）. If you have not seen my previous post, here is the post.   When you have finished reading this post, you can read and understand most of the Japanese words written in ひらがな(hiragana) in Japanese(にほんご).   Learning hiragana (ひらがな) ② (゛,゜) and basic Japanese words（にほんご) in 5 minutes You have already learned most of the ひらがな(hiragana) in the previous post, but there are some exceptions, such as “ ゛,゜ “.   How to read and pronounce ひらがな（hiragana）with (゛) words? First, let’s learn about (゛). I think some of you may have already wondered that ひら “が（ga）” な includes “ ゛” on the upper-right corner of か（ka）.   (゛) is called “濁音（dakuon）”, which you don’t need to remember, all you have to do is to remember 20 consonant-vowel unions below. They are “か(ka)き(ki)く(ku)け(ke)こ(ko)“,     “さ(sa)し(shi)す(su)せ(se)そ(so)”, “た(ta)ち(chi)つ(tu)て(te)と(to)”,   “は(ha)ひ(hi)ふ(hu)へ(he)ほ(ho)”.   They are converted to “が(ga)ぎ(gi)ぐ(gu)げ(ge)ご(go)”,　”ざ(za)じ(ji)ず(zu)ぜ(ze)ぞ(zo)”, “だ(da)ぢ(ji)づ(zu)で(de)ど(do)”,　”ば(ba)び(bi)ぶ(bu)べ(be)ぼ(bo)”.   To sum up, it is easy to remember that they are basically converted like this. k→g、　s→z、 　t→d、 　h→b   How to read and pronounce ひらがな（hiragana）with (゜) words? Next, let’s take a look at (゜). But, do not worry, there are only 5 hiragana. (゜) is called “半濁音（han-dakuon）”, which […]

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