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    The document provides an introduction to the four writing systems used in Japanese: 1) Hiragana and Katakana, which express Japanese phonetic sounds and were derived from Chinese characters. Hiragana is used for Japanese words and Katakana for foreign words. 2) Kanji, which are Chinese characters adopted into Japanese. Approximately 3,000 kanji are used in everyday writing. 3) Romaji, the Roman alphabet introduced to facilitate communication with foreigners, which represents Japanese phonetic sounds. The document also includes a mini-quiz to test the reader's understanding of these writing systems.

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    The document provides an introduction to the four writing systems used in Japanese: 1) Hiragana and Katakana, which express Japanese phonetic sounds and were derived from Chinese characters. Hiragana is used for Japanese words and Katakana for foreign words. 2) Kanji, which are Chinese characters adopted into Japanese. Approximately 3,000 kanji are used in everyday writing. 3) Romaji, the Roman alphabet introduced to facilitate communication with foreigners, which represents Japanese phonetic sounds. The document also includes a mini-quiz to test the reader's understanding of these writing systems.

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    1- Introduction to Japanese

    Writing Systems
    Content: Brief Introduction to Japanese Writing Systems
    Aim: What are the four ways Japanese people write their language?

    I. Introduction:
    The Japanese language is linguistically very different from
    the Chinese language in that Japanese did not originate with its own
    writing system. About 2000 years ago, Japanese nobles began
    using Chinese characters, and eventually developed two distinct
    writing systems Hiragana and Katakana. Both writing systems
    were derived from Chinese characters and were developed in order
    to express the phonetic sounds of Japanese in written form.
    Katakana came along about 1000 years after Hiragana.
    Katakana was originally developed by religious monks in an effort to
    create a short hand form of writing Chinese characters. However, it
    was later used to distinguish words of foreign origin. like the word
    computer or bus borrowed from English. At the time, it was important
    to the nobility to preserve the purity and heritage of the Japanese
    language by writing words considered to be non-Japanese in a
    distinctive manner.
    Today, modern Japanese frequently combines the use of all
    three writing systems in a sentence. Hiragana and Katakana
    phonetically express Japanese are learned from the first grade
    starting with 80 Chinese characters.
    By the time children graduate from the sixth grade, they will

    have mastered approximately 1000 Chinese characters. Chinese


    characters used in Japanese are called Kanji. Although there are
    about 50,000 80,000 Chinese characters, only about 3000 of them
    are used in every day writing and publications.
    Following the influx of foreign traders in Japan, the use of
    the Romanized alphabet to express Japanese phonetic sounds was
    introduced as a way to facilitate communication with foreign people
    who were unable to read Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. These
    alphabetic characters are referred to as Romaji. We will be using
    Romaji throughout each lesson to introduce the pronunciation of
    Japanese words.
    Summary of Japanese writing systems:
    1) Hiragana Are symbols that represent the phonetic sounds of
    words that are considered Japanese in origin.
    Hiragana have a rounded appearance as follows:
    (A, I , U, E, O)
    2) Katakana Are symbols that represent, non-Japanese or foreign
    words or Names like computer, football, James, Motorola, or
    Salt Lake City.
    Katakana have a more linear appearance as follows:
    (A, I , U, E, O)
    3) Kanji Are Chinese characters).
    Examples:
    4) Romaji Are the Roman alphabets used to represent the
    phonetic sounds of Japanese words. Developed for people who
    cannot read Japanese.
    In the first 15 lessons, we will mainly focus more on the introduction
    of new vocabulary, hiragana, and katakana. In later lessons we will
    gradually introduce Kanji (Chinese characters).
    II. Mini-Quiz: (Test your knowledge)

    1. Q: What is this writing system called?


    A: ___________________________
    2. Q: Which writing system below is Katakana used to express
    foreign words?
    A: a. b. c.
    3. Q: What is Romaji?
    A: a. A type of Italian food that is popular in Japan?
    b. Roman Alphabet characters used to express Japanese phonetic
    sounds.
    c. A neighborhood in Tokyo?
    Quiz Answers: 1-Kanji, 2-b, 3-b
    III. Writing Practice:
    Overview of the 50 sounds of Hiragana

    Compounds in Hiragana:

    Overview of the 50 sounds of Katakana


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