How to write Katakana (1)

Katakana Chart

How is your hiragana practice going? I’ll show katakana this week.

Before we start, I want to remind about Japanese writing. Japanese is a written combination of three scripts, hiragana, katakana and kanji. The Roman alphabet (romaji) is also sometimes used, mainly for the convenience of foreigners.  Roughly speaking, kanji represents blocks of meaning and hiragana expresses the grammatical relationship between them. Katakana is used for foreign names, place names, and words of foreign origin.

This is the katakana chart. In the following weeks I will show you how to write each character.
 
Click here for the complete Hiragana chart.

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