October 2010
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A Brief Guide to Katakana
When studying Japanese, it’s crucial that one knows their hiragana but even more so their katakana. Why? Katakana acts in all sort of different ways, especially apart from hiragana. In my last post, I mentioned that a word that is seemingly Japanese but written in katakana represents the scientific name of the animal. This is just a brief guide to katakana and it’s many uses.
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The Failing Literacy of a New Japanese Generation
Like always, I’m into something. Generally I surf the web picking up bits of useless information and occasionally come across patterns. For those of you out there, I’m a bit of language person myself. In fact, I plan on majouring in Japanese. So, when I scrolling through a friends social networking page I came across something odd, a word in katakana rather than what I deemed should be...