And foreign names and loan words, or words that have come from foreign languages, such as "Anna", ANNA, are written in "Katakana." Hiragana and ... to the tables of its writing system in the ...

The second semester, JAPN 102, assumes knowledge of both phonetic alphabets, hiragana and katakana ... reading and writing skills to acquire more natural use of the Japanese language. Advanced ...

This course provides students with introductory level proficiency in Japanese listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students learn romanised script, the two phonetic scripts (hiragana and ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...