Hanae's Japanese Language Tips for Independent Travellers

Basics 2
Katakana

Katakana is one type of Japanese writing system that shows pronuncition. The rules are the same as Hiragana. Katakana often show foreign loan words.

Katakana has only 48 letters such as follows:

When you put " or o just besides certain letters, pronunciation changes like this:

Also, if you put a small sized YA, YU or YO, you can get more variety of sounds as follows:

With a little TSU, you can put an accent.

When you find , you shold read the previous vowel longer.