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Oct 21, 2011 15:23 HGL commented on Kana!
Hiragana can be used for everything, while kanji has small limitation (kanji cannnot be used for "fukujosi", etc). Young kid...
Oct 20, 2011 22:32 Nadeshiko commented on Kana!
In excerpts from a Japanese text book, "These are the three different types of letters used for writing Japanese. While they are all...
Oct 20, 2011 22:28 HGL commented on Kana!
In addition, kanji is not a part of kana. Kana consists of hiragana and katakana only. Kanji is used in other Asian languages like Chines...
Oct 20, 2011 22:25 HGL commented on Kana!
Katakana is also used to express sounds. Dog's call is expressed as ワンワン, pronouned "wang wang", means in English "bow...
Oct 20, 2011 22:09 sivvyx01 commented on Kana!
Oh ok, thanks!
Oct 20, 2011 22:05 KSDKK commented on Kana!
Yes. We use katakana for loanwords. And sometimes, we use katakana for expression of unnatural speaking tone and mechanical tone. Like So...
Oct 18, 2011 19:03 Catwings commented on Vocab Question
I quickly googled it and hit this one. http://www.learn-hiragana-katakana.com/ It looks good to start hiragana and katakana. Hope this ...
Oct 18, 2011 18:57 Satchmo commented on Vocab Question
For vocabulary and kanji, I would recommend something like renshuu.org. It doesn't cost anything and has helped me immensely. It star...
Oct 17, 2011 00:04 islays commented on New
Please try to write a diary in Japanese. Then someone will correct your dialy. You may get some friends in all over the world. Have fu...
Oct 16, 2011 21:22 Sfidante made 1 corrections for Question!
Most of the Chinese characters have more than two ways of reading. Suppose there are two, then one is on-reading, and the other is kun-re...
Oct 16, 2011 20:19 sivvyx01 commented on Question!
Thank you for the translation!!!
Oct 16, 2011 20:15 Kei made 4 corrections for Question!
Japanese kanji has on-reading and kun-reading. e.g.「時」 on-reading:"ji"  「時間(じかん:jikan)」 It means "time" in English....
Oct 16, 2011 20:04 Jun commented on Question!
when setting a example of 音(kun-yomi:おと on-yomi:オン), I think on-Yomi is used when the word like this "音楽"(ongaku),and Kun-yom...
Oct 16, 2011 17:59 Sfidante commented on New
We are grateful if you could correct our journal entries. We will help you with your Japanese as well. Thank you.
Oct 16, 2011 17:50 M_Arai commented on New
Thank you for your friend request message :) To use this effectively, you have to write journals in Japanese. Then we can correct you...