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Japanese Lesson for Beginners 
Session 3 
27.Oct.2014 
Kana Shimohigoshi 
kshimo@essex.ac.uk
Review 
- The sound of Japanese language 
a syllable = a consonant + a vowel 
- Romanization 
1. aki (autumn) 3. igirisu (UK) 
2.tokei (watch/clock) 4. daigaku (university)
Introduction 
- Writing Hiragana Basics 
- Proper stroke order 
- 3 types of stroke 
- Japanese “あ” column 
- Tracing practice 
- Vocabulary Drill
Writing Hiragana Basics 
- The general rule is left to right and top to 
bottom 
- Traditionally, Japanese is written in columns 
going from top to bottom, with columns 
ordered from right to left 
- Proper stroke order is important 
- Various styles
Various Styles
3 types of stroke 
3 different ways to end a stroke: 
tome (stop), hane (jump) 
and harai (sweeping)
3 types of stroke: Tome 
1. Tome (means “stop”) 
Completely stop at the end of a stroke
3 types of stroke: Hane 
2. Hane (means “jump”) 
End the stroke with a slight flick
3 types of stroke: Harai 
3. Harai (means “sweeping”) 
The broad sweep at the end of a stroke
Let’s write あいうえお 
with the correct stroke order
① 
② 
③ 
あ“a”
い“i” 
① 
②
う“u” 
① 
②
え“e” 
① 
②
お“o” 
① 
② 
③
Activity; Tracing practice あcolumn
Activity; Words You Can Write 
• write the following words using the hiragana that 
you just learned 
1. え(a painting) 
2. いい(good) 
3. あい(love) 
4. あう(to meet) 
5. うえ(up) 
6. いう(to say) 
7. いえ(house) 
8. あお(blue) 
9. おう(to chase) 
10.おい(nephew) 
11.えい(a ray fish) 
12.いいえ(no) 
13.おおい(many)
Activity; あいうえおpuzzle
Hiragana Table
Hiragana Table
Voiced Consonants and ‘P’ 
GA 
GU 
GE 
DA ZA 
PA BA 
PI 
BI 
PU 
PE 
PO 
BU 
BE 
BO 
JI 
JI 
GI 
DZI 
ZU 
ZU 
DZU 
DE 
ZE 
DO ZO 
GO
Next week 
- Learn how to read and write “か” column 
- Conversation practice 
「わたしは… です」“I am…”
Session 3 Writing Hiragana "あ" column

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Session 3 Writing Hiragana "あ" column

Editor's Notes

  • #3: writing Japanese with the latin alphabet is called romanization. Japanese people use hiragana and katakana and kanaji to write japanese, and they arent always ableto write romanized japanese romanization is used mainly for non-japanese. basically. consonants must be followerd by voweles in Japanese.
  • #4: by the end of this session, you will be able to write a I u e o in hiragana hiragana is the japanese alphabet that represents all of sound of japanese language and is used to write native Japanese words and various grammatical functions I will show 46 basic hiragana characters this time, and in the following lesson I will introduce how to write them
  • #5: I’ll go through each character and draw them in proper stroke order and I’ll show you some simple word that uses that characters lets start with a a is a three stroke character
  • #7: I’ll go through each character and draw them in proper stroke order and I’ll show you some simple word that uses that characters lets start with a a is a three stroke character
  • #10: since japanese characters are orfinarily writtten vertivally from top to bottom, the table items are written in that way. the lines are written from right to left,
  • #20: Romanized as “wa” when used as grammatical particle