dragonfire455
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wat is katakana?
カタカナ (katakana) is what the Japanese use to derive English, or foreign words. Like computer is コンピュータ (ko-n-pyu-ta).
It's different from their main syllabicity (ひらがな (Hiragana)) which is how the Japanese pronounce every single one of their words.
Of course, you can't rely on just Hiragana and Katakana, because you gotta learn the 2,045 常用漢字 (jouyou kanji) necessary to read even a newspaper in Japan.
Such examples of Kanji include
日 - にち (nichi) ひ、び、に、(hi, bi, ni) etc. Meaning is Day. Sun.
月 - がつ、 げつ。 (Gatsu / Getsu). つき (tsuki). Means Moon. Month.
Common phrases include:
愛してる (Aishiteru) "I love you".
だいすき (Daisuki) "I like you".
More information can be found here.
I apologize for the wall of text I typed :3


