Katakana Learning

                     To be honest I haven’t ever heard of Katakana before last year during Japanese Calligraphy. It was something that I didn’t know was a thing. I thought the only writing system was kanji and Hiragana. It surprised me to realize Katakana was a thing, though it totally made sense to me after realizing how useful it is. 

 

                      I’m still learning to be able to realize and read Hiragana so I haven’t yet taken the time to study katakana as hard as Hiragana so it’s still very new and fresh. The only katakana I can realize is my first name written. I feel like it’s super interesting how English we just say the foreign word rather than converting it over. I think this may because we only have the alphabet as our writing system compared to the Japanese that have Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana. This also made me think about how a lot of English words are foreign words we just use as they’re used foreign and we don’t try changing it. 

                      I’m very excited to start on Katakana after I finish learning Hiragana and being able to talk about foreign words a bit more. I hope to also get a Japanese pen pal to practice my Japanese every now and then. I think being able to talk about English concepts to them using Katakana will be very fun and help me even learn more. 

                       Though I feel like I’ll see my struggle towards the future being how to keep track of Katakana and Hiragana. I think the biggest one is concerning Hiragana with curvy and Katakana with angles.  I think studying both together will also help me differ each of the two groups. I’m hopping that’ll be a form to learn both at the same time and also maybe be able to recall them a lot faster. I have had a bit of an issue with my recall so far. I think that more studying will help me.