Tag: japanese phonetics

  • How to ask some one in Japanese where he lives?

    How to ask some one in Japanese where he lives?

    doko ni asundeimasu ka? that translates ‘exactly as’ where do you live? How does it reads phonetically? You need to know the exact way a hiragana is defined and mapped into a specific form of Roman alphabet making, called Romaji or Hepburn transliteration rule — as far as I know its only the Japanese system…

  • Learn a little Japanese?

    Learn a little Japanese?

    How to read the following in Japanese; a’me (Ind; aa’me, ame as in rAMEn noodles) = rain. In kanji, 雨 (ame; rain) I put ‘ to give you phonetic pauses. o’o’ame = heavy rain ko’sa’me = light rain tsu’yu = rainy season go’u’u = heavy rain yu’u’da’sa = shower ta’i’hu (ta’i’fu’) = typhoon. rain Click…

  • hiragana, katakana and romaji characters.

    hiragana, katakana and romaji characters.

    hiragana, katakana and romaji characters. The Japanese alphabet-syllabary. I created the following charts with color, and design. The original source of the chart is available at omniglot.

  • My nihongo improvements.

    My nihongo improvements.

    My learning of the Japanese Language is two legged, once when I was living in Japan during 2002-2007; I lived there for 3 years. The interest of mine to learn any foreign language for that matter is immense, currently I am interested to learn more scripts, than I can happily be pursuing. The 2nd time…

  • meaning of night/name/woman a 1000 years ago !!

    3 kanjis who wants to learn some Japanese/Chinese !! 始 。hajime = begin/start. A woman [女] is often considered auspicious in many occassions hence a woman’s voice is the start of many activities. See that square is mouth [口] and the other part is perhaps the nose which defines a person or woman’s voice. To…