Katakana is a part of the written Japanese language used for foreign terms and names. Learn this script to recognize many familiar words from other languages. The straight lines and sharp angles of ...

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"Kodansha's Katakana Workbook" is an all-new, streamlined workbook designed for beginner-level students who want to learn katakana, the Japanese script used for writing loanwords, as efficiently as ...

Learn Hiragana and Katakana: Just like English has A to Z, the Japanese language also has its own alphabet. Fun fact is that Japanese doesn’t use a single language. It uses three writing systems, ...

Good news for Japanese learners. Kadokawa Corporation has published three new books about the Japanese language. The three books are part of the のびーる国語 nobiru kokugo (stretch your Japanese language ...

Katakana too is a phonetic alphabet. It represents the same set of 46 basic sounds but is used for different purposes, such as writing foreign words, making words stand out (in the way we would use ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand for ...

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