kanji intro

3 writing systems

There are three writing systems: Hiragana, katakana and Kanji.

Kanji and Kana

• Kanji is the oldest and is a picture-based system from China made up of logograms, which are characters that represent whole words.

• Hiragana and katakana are native to Japan and represent syllable sounds; together these two alphabets are referred to as kana. katakana is used for writing words of foreign origin from any language

_{Why start learning kanji? }

1.Kanji is the shortcut to learning Japanese, even if you only care about speaking.

2. the reason is for readability. Kanji creates natural breaks in a sentence that make it easier for the reader to separate nouns and verbs.

Same meaning with different writing system.

kanji+ hiragana: 

母は三十七さいです。

vs

Hiragana only:
はははさんじゅうしちさいです。


*さい＝age
*はは＝母＝mother
*さんじゅうなな＝三十七=37

You have already learnt some basic kanji!!

Japanese number song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNotzty3kE&t=1s

New Kanji for this week

月= がつ（ga tsu）

日＝にち (ni chi)

人＝ひと（hi to）

Try to translate:

which month is 三月?

How many days is in 五日？

how many people is 七人？

Super easy!!

三月 is March

五日 means 5 days

七人 is 7 people

The most commonly used date format in Japan is "year month day "

3rd of July in Japanese is: 七月三日

九月七日　is the 7th of September

self-direct learning tasks:

• number kanji quizizz code: 1171 6518

• new kanji quizizz code: 2036 7270

• understand the kanji in a sentence code: 6257 2454