Learn Katakana-NA NI NU NE NO

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 for.

NA NI NU NE NO-ナ二ヌネノ

First, let’s cover how to pronounce these characters. You can tap each character to hear the native pronunciation.

• ナ → na (like “nah”)
• 二 → ni (like “knee”)
• ヌ → nu (like “new”)
• ネ → ne (like “nay”)
• ノ → no (like “no”)

Look Out For ノ

This isn’t really all that bad, but ノ (no) looks a bit similar to ツ (tsu) シ (shi) ソ (so). But since it’s missing the “apostrophe looking thing” it’s easy to remember.

Later in this course, there will be another character added to this list of lookalikes though.