Kanji! (かんじ!)

KanjI! ( かんじ!)

Kanji (漢字; Japanese pronunciation: [kandʑi]  listen), or kan'ji, are the adopted logographicChinese characters (hànzì)^[1] that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana and katakana. The Japanese term kanji for the Chinese characters literally means "Han characters"^[2] and is written using the same characters as the Chinese word hànzì.^[3]

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KATAKANA! (片仮名, カタカナ)

Katakana (片仮名, カタカナ)

Katakana (片仮名, カタカナ^?) is In contrast to the hiragana syllabary, which is used for those Japanese language words and grammatical inflections which kanji does not cover, the katakana syllabary usage is quite similar to italics in English; specifically, it is used for transcription of foreign language words into Japanese and the writing of loan words (collectively gairaigo); for emphasis; to represent onomatopoeia; for technical and scientific terms; and for names of plants, animals, minerals, and often Japanese companies.

Katakana are characterized by shor^[3] There are two main systems of ordering katakana: the old-fashioned iroha ordering, and the more prevalent gojūon orderingt, straight strokes and sharp corners, and are the simplest of the Japanese scripts

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HIRAGANA! (平仮名, ひらがな)

Hiragana! (平仮名, ひらがな)

Hiragana (平仮名, ひらがな^?) is a Japanesesyllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and in some cases rōmaji (Latin script). It is a phonetic lettering system. The word hiragana means "smooth kana".^{[citation needed]}

Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems. With one or two minor exceptions, each sound in the Japanese language (strictly, each mora) is represented by one character (or one digraph) in each system. This may be either a vowel such as "a"(hiragana あ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as "ka" (か); or "n" (ん), a nasal sonorant which, depending on the context, sounds either like English m, n, or ng ([ŋ]), or like the nasal vowels of French. Because the characters of the kana do not represent single consonants (except in the case of ん "n"), the kana are referred to as syllabaries and not alphabets.^[1]

Hiragana is used to write okurigana (kana suffixes following a kanji root, for example to inflect verbs and adjectives), various grammatical and function words including particles, as well as miscellaneous other native words for which there are no kanji or whose kanji form is obscure or too formal for the writing purpose.^[2] Words that do have common kanji renditions may also sometimes be written instead in hiragana, according to an individual author's preference, for example to impart an informal feel. Hiragana is also used to write furigana, a reading aid that shows the pronunciation of kanji characters.

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Konnichiwa

Konnichiwa!! (こんいちわ)

Hello I am Mark!

Konnichiwa    watashiwa   Marku     desu!

こんいちわ      わたしわ       マーク    です!

Hello                I am               Mark      to be polite

So yes I am Mark A.K.A GLOBEWALKERjnr, I have been interested in Japanese but find it hard to concentrate on learning, so I have come up with an idea!

I help you learn Japanese, while you help me...

If that makes any sense haha!

Also feel free to join in if you are Japanese wanting to learn English!

We can all help!!

The goal is to learn Japanese, and also teach you along the way, now the start will be when I get the resources to make this happen...

but don't worry!

I have connections who can help me with those resources so for the first few weeks, this blog/ learning resource will be a little boring, mundane and a little drab, but bare with me I will be looking at making it fun and interesting with pictures and downloadable content!!!

Thank you very much

Domo              Arigatou

ども                 ありがとう

Very much      Thank you 

Mark     kun

マーク  くん

               Informal reference to male