More Katakana Diphthongs
In the last lesson, you learned the baseline katakana diphthong characters. Now we’re adding even more diphthongs to bring more new sounds to the language. More Katakana Combinations to Think About Remember,
Our lessons teaching katakana.
In the last lesson, you learned the baseline katakana diphthong characters. Now we’re adding even more diphthongs to bring more new sounds to the language. More Katakana Combinations to Think About Remember,
In the last lesson, we went over ワ and ヲ — a super simple lesson with just a couple similar characters to worry about. This is probably this simplest lesson — the
In the last lesson you learned the syllabic N character. A super simple lesson for sure. Now we’re going to dive into modifiers that change some of the characters into new consonants:
In the last lesson, you learned the extended katakana characters. The biggest lesson so far in this course. Now we’re moving into combinations adding a whole bunch of new sounds to the
Welcome to katakana boot camp. This is the capstone of this course. The goal is to give you one place where you can practice recalling katakana until you’ve mastered them. It’s the
In the last lesson, we went over ラリルレロ — a straightforward lesson without anything to trick you. The Y consonant is even easier because there are only three of them. YA YU
In the last lesson, we went over ヤユヨ — a simple lesson without anything to trick you. The W consonant is even easier because there are only two of them. WA WO-ワヲ
In the last lesson we went over マ三ムメモ — a simple lesson without any real gotchas. The R consonant in this lesson is simple too. While there is a pronunciation issue to
In the last lesson, we went over ハヒフヘホ — a lesson with a unique character to watch out for. The M consonant is back to simple. MA MI MU ME MO-マ三ムメモ マ
In the last lesson we went over ナ二ヌネノ — a pretty simple lesson with not much to watch out for. The H consonant throws a couple curve-balls at us though. HA HI
In the last lesson, we went over タチツテト. Let’s add the N consonant to your katakana toolkit next. This is a very simple lesson, with one small tricky thing to look out
In the last lesson, we went over サシスセソ and here we’ll cover the T consonant characters. This series has a couple of odd characters to think about: チ (chi) and ツ (tsu)
In the last lesson, we went over カキクケコ and here we’ll add the S consonant characters to your repertoire. As was true in hiragana, this series in katakana also has an odd
In the last lesson, we went over アイウエオ — the core vowel sounds. The Japanese language consists of simply adding consonants to these core sounds. Let’s start with K first. KA KI
First up are the core vowel characters. These are important to learn as they make up the foundation of the other characters going forward. This is a simple lesson. Unfortunately, katakana has
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