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This book was written and designed by a group of Japanese educators and foreign learners of the Japanese language. Teachers and students alike gave their advice and input to help make this book both fun and useful.
This book contains detailed explanations of how to read and write the katakana syllabary. Some of its key features include instructions on proper stroke order, diacritic signs (marks that alter a character’s reading/pronunciation) an expansive set of charts, and practice drills which incorporate the use and study of example vocabulary words that contain the target characters. With “Katakana” by IE Institute, everything you to master the syllabary is now at your fingertips!
Katakana is one of the two phonetic writing systems that are essential to learning how to write in Japanese. Each syllabary contain 46 basic characters that share the same pronunciation, but are written differently and used for different purposes.
Katakana is generally learned after hiragana (the other syllabary), but some find it is easier to master katakana first because of its cleaner, more angular lines.
In modern written Japanese, the Katakana syllabary is most commonly used to write foreign words and names, as well as the names of most plants and animals. It is also sometimes used to emphasize words that would normally be written in kanji or Hiragana (like in Japanese comics known as manga).
We are confident that you will find the contents of this ebook are presented in a natural and easy-to-follow manner and are supplemented with effective study exercises that will not only help you to remember katakana, but also allow you to naturally begin building a base vocabulary while studying them.
In Japan, IE Institute is best known for our English and kanji (Chinese character) study software. We are both thrilled and honored to be able to say that to date, over one million copies of our kanji study software have sold here in Japan. We feel that the experience and resources we have gained from creating educational software will allow us to provide you with a well thought-out and easy to use e-book to assist you in your quest to learn katakana.
Product Description
This book was written and designed by a group of Japanese educators and foreign learners of the Japanese language. Teachers and students alike gave their advice and input to help make this book both fun and useful.
This book contains detailed explanations of how to read and write the katakana syllabary. Some of its key features include instructions on proper stroke order, diacritic signs (marks that alter a character’s reading/pronunciation) an expansive set of charts, and practice drills which incorporate the use and study of example vocabulary words that contain the target characters. With “Katakana” by IE Institute, everything you to master the syllabary is now at your fingertips!
Katakana is one of the two phonetic writing systems that are essential to learning how to write in Japanese. Each syllabary contain 46 basic characters that share the same pronunciation, but are written differently and used for different purposes.
Katakana is generally learned after hiragana (the other syllabary), but some find it is easier to master katakana first because of its cleaner, more angular lines.
In modern written Japanese, the Katakana syllabary is most commonly used to write foreign words and names, as well as the names of most plants and animals. It is also sometimes used to emphasize words that would normally be written in kanji or Hiragana (like in Japanese comics known as manga).
We are confident that you will find the contents of this ebook are presented in a natural and easy-to-follow manner and are supplemented with effective study exercises that will not only help you to remember katakana, but also allow you to naturally begin building a base vocabulary while studying them.
In Japan, IE Institute is best known for our English and kanji (Chinese character) study software. We are both thrilled and honored to be able to say that to date, over one million copies of our kanji study software have sold here in Japan. We feel that the experience and resources we have gained from creating educational software will allow us to provide you with a well thought-out and easy to use e-book to assist you in your quest to learn katakana.
