"Robot-speech" (as in, when you write out text for robots talking).Many foods (especially animal and plant foods) are written in katakana too.
As you get used to it, though, you'll begin to not only understand non-Japanese words that have been made "Japanese," but also know how to say foreign words using Japanese sounds (and write them in katakana).īesides foreign words, katakana is often used for: So, words that are transcribed in katakana often don't sound like the original. The sounds available in the Japanese language tend to be limited, and are not as flexible compared to other languages. The most common use is to transcribe foreign words (non-Japanese words), especially English words. Katakana is used for a variety of things. It would be like if in English you replaced the letter "A" with the symbol "ア" without changing how it's used and pronounced. But, the characters representing those sounds are different. Katakana is, for the most part, the same sounds you learned with hiragana. In terms of what you're learning, it will be very simple. Let's get started with the first ten katakana. If you haven't yet, please review the learn hiragana guide before you begin learning the katakana. It also skips the pronunciation explanations (except when a katakana character is different from hiragana). It uses the same style techniques, worksheets, and exercises. This guide assumes you went through our hiragana guide already, so it won't explain how and why this method works. Ready to do the same thing all over again so you can learn katakana?
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