Japanese Alphabet English To Japanese
It s vital to learn these special characters if you want to learn japanese.
Japanese alphabet english to japanese. Japanese r sounds are between english l and r sounds. Like korean the japanese alphabet is silabic with the exception of the n. Japanese language consists of three alphabets. The japanese alphabet consists of two phonetic alphabets.
Katakana and hiragana there s also kanji which are chinese characters. Don t let that daunt you though. You d better to write your name with katakana. To read a newspaper you must know 2 000 commonly used kanji hiragana and katakana which are taught in elementary school and junior high school along with the english alphabets.
Below you will be able to hear how the letters above are pronounced just press the play. The reason is because unlike english which uses a latin alphabet of 26 characters japanese uses pictographic characters called kanji. Kanji pictographic characters imported from china hiragana and katakana phonetic alphabets developed in japan.