The document provides an introduction to practicing Japanese writing. It discusses the hiragana and katakana syllabaries which each contain 46 basic characters representing sounds. The learning outcomes are to understand Japanese writing using hiragana, learn hiragana characters, and practice calligraphy. Lesson 1 focuses on learning hiragana characters and practicing writing them. Lesson 2 covers katakana characters, their use, and practicing writing katakana. Both lessons involve memorizing character charts and taking a calligraphy quiz.
The document provides an introduction to practicing Japanese writing. It discusses the hiragana and katakana syllabaries which each contain 46 basic characters representing sounds. The learning outcomes are to understand Japanese writing using hiragana, learn hiragana characters, and practice calligraphy. Lesson 1 focuses on learning hiragana characters and practicing writing them. Lesson 2 covers katakana characters, their use, and practicing writing katakana. Both lessons involve memorizing character charts and taking a calligraphy quiz.
The document provides an introduction to practicing Japanese writing. It discusses the hiragana and katakana syllabaries which each contain 46 basic characters representing sounds. The learning outcomes are to understand Japanese writing using hiragana, learn hiragana characters, and practice calligraphy. Lesson 1 focuses on learning hiragana characters and practicing writing them. Lesson 2 covers katakana characters, their use, and practicing writing katakana. Both lessons involve memorizing character charts and taking a calligraphy quiz.
The document provides an introduction to practicing Japanese writing. It discusses the hiragana and katakana syllabaries which each contain 46 basic characters representing sounds. The learning outcomes are to understand Japanese writing using hiragana, learn hiragana characters, and practice calligraphy. Lesson 1 focuses on learning hiragana characters and practicing writing them. Lesson 2 covers katakana characters, their use, and practicing writing katakana. Both lessons involve memorizing character charts and taking a calligraphy quiz.
In modern Japanese, the hiragana and katakana syllabaries each contain 46
basic characters, or 71 including diacritics. With one or two minor exceptions, each different sound in the Japanese language (that is, each different syllable, strictly each mora) corresponds to one character in each syllabary. Unlike kanji, these characters intrinsically represent sounds only; they convey meaning only as part of words. Hiragana and katakana characters also originally derive from Chinese characters, but they have been simplified and modified to such an extent that their origins are no longer visually obvious.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this module the students should be able to:
Students will learn the essence of Japanese Writing Form using their common lettering format.
Students will be able to understand words, sentences by the use of Hiragana
Hone calligraphy; its forms, brush and strokes.
Lesson 1 Writing Hiragana
ごい (Language):
Students will be tasked to study the Hiragana characters with the aid of a chart table (Figure 1.0) below. They are responsible to memorize the said table for them to be able to participate much interactively in future discussions and lessons. One can optionally observe proper writing etiquette such as the right brush and strokes to avoid mistakes in writing.
Once the task is done, the instructor will provide an exam for a calligraphy test. This will gauge the students knowledge and capability of memorizing and writing the Hiragana characters.
Hiragana Chart Table (Figure 1.0)
History
The hiragana syllabary consists of 48 syllables and is mainly used to
write word endings. Hiragana are also widely used in materials for children, textbooks, animation and comic books, to write Japanese words which are not normally written with kanji, such as adverbs and some nouns and adjectives, or for words whose kanji are obscure or obsolete.
In early versions of hiragana there were often many different
characters to represent the same syllable, however the system was eventually simplified so that there was a one-to-one relationship between spoken and written syllables. The present orthography of hiragana was codified by the Japanese government in 1946. Listening Exercise:
Activities 1. Listening 2. Real Dialogue 3. Shadowing 4. Reading
Assessment
Quiz : Practice Writing makes better results, accomplish the calligraphy sheets. Lesson 2 Writing Katakana
ごい (Language):
Students will be tasked to study the Katakana characters with the aid of a chart table (Figure 2.0) below. They are responsible to memorize the said table for them to be able to participate much interactively in future discussions and lessons. One can optionally observe proper writing etiquette such as the right brush and strokes to avoid mistakes in writing.
Once the task is done, the instructor will provide an exam for a calligraphy test. This will gauge the students’ knowledge and capability of memorizing and writing the Katakana characters.
Katakana Chart Table (Figure 2.0)
History
In modern Japanese, katakana is most often used for transcription of words
from foreign languages or loanwords (other than words historically imported from Chinese), called gairaigo. For example, "television" is written テレビ (terebi). Similarly, katakana is usually used for country names, foreign places, and foreign personal names. For example, the United States is usually referred to as アメリカ Amerika, rather than in its ateji kanji spelling of 亜米利加 Amerika.
Katakana are also used for onomatopoeia, words used to represent sounds – for example, ピンポン (pinpon), the "ding-dong" sound of a doorbell. Listening Exercise:
Activities 1. Listening 2. Real Dialogue 3. Shadowing 4. Reading
Assessment
Quiz : Practice Writing makes better results, accomplish the calligraphy sheets.
Reading & Writing Japanese: A Workbook for Self-Study: A Beginner's Guide to Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji (Free Online Audio and Printable Flash Cards)
Wolfgang Hadamitzky, Mark Spahn - Kanji - Kana - Handbook and Dictionary of The Japanese Writing System (English and Japanese Edition) (1989, Tuttle Publishing)
Reading & Writing Japanese: A Workbook for Self-Study: A Beginner's Guide to Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji (Free Online Audio and Printable Flash Cards)
Wolfgang Hadamitzky, Mark Spahn - Kanji - Kana - Handbook and Dictionary of The Japanese Writing System (English and Japanese Edition) (1989, Tuttle Publishing)
