ひらがな Continuing the Pattern
Picking up where I left off, oh so long ago, ひらがな has that magical pattern effect where you learn the pronunciation of the vowels and then the rest of the characters are cake.
Most ひらがな characters (all of them except the vowels and 'n') consist of 二 components:
consonant - k, g, s, z, t, d, n, h, b, p, m, y, r or w in most cases; and
vowel - the 五 (go - five) 仮名 learned previously.
To copy directly from TextFugu regarding the magical pattern and the K-line of ひらがな:
か → ka → This is just K + あ (a), therefore it has a “kah” sound.
き → ki → This is just K + い (i), therefore is identical to the word “key” in English
く → ku → This is just K + う (u), therefore has a “koo” sound, like “kublai khan” or cool.
け → ke → This is just K + え (e), therefore has a “keh” sound, like “kettle”
こ → ko → This is just K + お (o), therefore has a “koh” sound like comb.
If you look at this TextFugu Hiragana Chart, you'll see that the pattern continues pretty consistently for the most part. There are some *minor* exceptions to note which I will cover in Part 二.2, hopefully tomorrow.
I already know ひらがな quite solidly but I think it's important to document this stuff for my benefit down the line or maybe someone else's if anyone ever reads this. Trying to go through the different lessons on TextFugu with a fine tooth comb a bit.
Well, my 30 minutes is about up but in closing I'm going to throw out a few vocab words just to sort of test myself from the adjectives I've learned in My Japanese Coach lately.
あつい - hot, うつくしい - beautiful, よい - good, いたい - painful,
つよい - strong, さむい - cold, よわい - weak, みにくい - ugly
Wooo!!! I'm actually getting these committed to memory. Always happy when that happens!
またね!!
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