Next set, next set! Who’s excited?! I am! :D
Here’s a trip up for ya. There’s no “hu”, it’s pronounced “foo”. The rest are normal: ha, hee, heh, hoe, mah, mee, moo, meh, moe.
And those are the brush strokes!! Almost done with the hiragana folks! Just a set left!
And I’m back! Alright, the next sets of hiragana you will be learning is ta-to and na-no. :D
All of these are pretty much pronounced the way you would expect. Tah, chee, soo, tey, toh, nah, nee, noo, neh, no. :3
And here are the brush strokes!!!
Now don’t forget to practice writing and pronouncing these hiragana! And don’t forget the link to the mp3’s I posted earlier of all the hiragana!!
A review of the vocabulary we have learned so far!
せんせい sensei = teacher
おおきい ookii = big
おいしい oishii = delicious
すし sushi = sushi
はい hai = yes
いいえ iie =no (also can be used as no problem/you’re welcome in informal situations)
うえ ue = up
あい ai = love
あお ao = blue
こい koi = carp; romance
あか aka = red
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And just a few sentences for fun, using the X is Y model.
すしはおいしいです。
Sushi wa oishii desu.
The sushi is delicious.
コーヒーをおいしいです。
Kohee-o oishii desu.
The coffee is delicious.
(Coffee is written in Katakana, because it is a foreign word).
わたしのねこはかわいいです。
Watashi no neko wa kawaii desu.
My cat is cute.
For everyone who got the DND joke, yay! Hopefully it made you at least smile. For those of you who didn’t, don’t worry. I’m a geek and terribly obscure sometimes. :D Anyways, here are some worksheets to help you out with the hiragana sa thru so.
http://kids.nifty.com/study/hira_rensyu/images/sasi.pdf
The next set of hiragana I’m going to teach you is the S-sounds. :3 Sa, Shi, Su, Se, So. I’m also going to add one more hiragana. This hiragana doesn’t really have a group that it goes with, so I’m just going to mash it into this “lesson”. The hiragana is the sound for “N”.
Sa is pronounced sah as in samba. Shi is pronounced she as in sheba. Su is prounced Soo as in, “Please don’t sue me”. XD Se is pronounced say as in sable. So is pronounced soh as in soap. And N is pronounced un (or just the way you pronounce the letter n by itself) as in fun, but only pronouncing the n!
Here are the brush strokes:
HaH! Breathe deep everyone! You now know 16 of the hiragana! :3 Don’t forget to use the worksheets to practice! Print them out or just use notebook paper, but practice, practice, practice!
Alrighty, so far i have taught you to read and write the hiragana a-ko and a few words that use those soundings. Now I’m going to give you some basics on grammar/sentence structure. :3 Aren’t I just grand..?
For starters, a great deal (most) sentences in Japanese end in some form or other with です. This is pronounced, “des”. We haven’t learned these hiragana yet, but fret not, they are coming! です means, roughly, “It is…”
じゅにじはんです。
Juniji han desu.
This sentence, for instance, says, “It is half past twelve.”
さむいです
Samui desu.
This sentence says, “It’s chilly.”
To turn sentences into questions, do NOT try to add a question mark. There is no such beast in the Japanese language. Instead, simply add か(ka). You learned this hiragana already! When placed at the end of a sentence, this character turns the sentence into a question. For instance:
あめりかじんですか。
Amerikajin desu ka.
This sentence says, “Are you an American?” Normally, country names and nationalities are written in Katakana. The Katakana, which should have been used above for America, is アメリカ.
One basic sentence format is “X is Y.” Or, in Japanese, “X はY です.” When placed at the end of a word/middle of a sentence the character “ha” is pronounced “wa” and is used to identify things. For example:
わたしわじょあなです。
Watashi wa Joanna desu.
I am Joanna.
ジャネトさんわイギリスじんです。
Janeto san wa igirisujin desu.
Janet is british.
Then there is the particle “no”. We haven’t learned this hiragana yet, but it is vital to sentence structure. “No”, written の in hiragana, has many purposes. One purpose is to connect two nouns. In this connection, the main idea follows the no, and any further description is placed before the no. For example:
たけしさんのでんわばんごう
Takeshi san no denwa bangoo
Takeshi’s phone number
In this example, the noun “denwa bangoo” is the main idea, because if something is Takeshi’s phone number, it is a phone number. Takeshi san is not the main idea because Takeshi san is not Takeshi’s phone number. A little confusingly worded, I’m sorry!
にほんごのがくせい
Nihongo no gakusee
a student of the Japanese language
にほんのだいがく
nihon no daigaku
A college in Japan
Another way of using “no” is noun1 no noun2 which combines the nouns into one big noun. For example:
たけしさんのおかあさん
Takeshi san no okaasan
Takeshi’s mother
So far you have learned these hiragana:
And here are some words using those characters!!!
Koi is also the word for carp, funnily enough.
These worksheets will help you with the hiragana ka thru ko.
http://kids.nifty.com/study/hira_rensyu/images/kaki.pdf
The next five hiragana I will be showing you are these:
Ka is pronounced Kah. Ki is pronounced Key or Kee. Ku is pronounced koo as in koookooo for cocoa puffs. Ke is pronounced Keh as in kettle. Ko is pronounced koh as in Cola.
Here are their brush strokes:
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