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Ah. . . .What should I blabber on about now?

Oh yeah,I started taking katakana classes.First ujian:Next week.-was scared to half death-

Well,until the teacher said it was only up to lesson 3.Then I was scared to an eight to death.

Basically,Katakana is used when writing down foreign names, places, and words of foreign origin (If you are not from Japan, your name can be written in katakana). Without knowing katakana, one might find it almost impossible to order fast food in Japan, or read billboards on the street. This is because Japan uses so many words borrowed from other languages.The structure of katakana is similar to hiragana (if you know one the other is easy to learn). The main difference between the two is katakana is composed of straight lines, where hiragana uses curved lines.

Well,I can basically write katakana,but I haven't memorized much.Here are vowels I've learnt and their pronunciations.

ア-a イ-i ウ-u エ-e オ-o

And some of the many characters.

カ-ka キ-ki ク-ku ケ-ke コ-ko ー-elongation of character

サ-sa シ-shi ス-su セ-se ソ-so

タ-ta チ-chi ツ-tsu テ-te ト-to

ナ-na ニ-ni ヌ-nu ネ-ne ノ-no

ハ-ha ヒ-hi フ-fu ヘ-he ホ-ho

ホ-ma ミ-mi ム-mu メ-me モ-mo

ヤ-ya ユ-yu ヨ-yo

ラ-ra リ-ri ル-ru レ-re ロ-ro

And in the spirit of daddy buying me a katakana/hiragana/romaji keyboard,the spirit of Merdeka and High School Musical 2(Yes Khaielaash,you did get me hooked):

マレーシア-Mareeshia,or Malaysia.

and

ミュージカル-myuujikaru,or musical.

And I gottago now,so until the test is over,seeya bloggie and bloggers!