Hiragana Page 09 く ku
This is not your average less than sign
Kanji, the 3rd writing system in Japanese, has about 2000 characters to learn - aren't you glad you are learning Hiragana? |
HOW TO
WRITE IT 
- This means 'the number
9'
- This means 'air' (7 votes)
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How come the audio files of
How come the audio files of the words were missed?
Clay adds them as he has
Clay adds them as he has time. He has to have his wife record them and then set them up here on the website when he's not busy running TheJapanShop.com etc. :)
He's slowly making his way through the kana adding the sounds 1 section at a time.
Man, that was a tough
Man, that was a tough character to write! ;)
at first I thought It's very
at first I thought It's very hard to learn hiragana... but now.. its very easy and interesting:]
I agree it is very easy and
I agree it is very easy and interesting, though I am still not sure how I should pronounce words with a sound and then the same sound right after. Example: くうき "air" The
く and the う
Just think of it like each
Just think of it like each character having a "beat". Each beat is about the same length. So when you have a "u" sound right after the "ku" sound, just hold the "u" at the end of "ku" for an extra beat before saying the "ki" part. :)
Practice it like saying くき (ku-ki) as two beats (which is another word entirely, which means "stalk" like "stalk of corn"), and then くうき (ku-u-ki) as 3 beats and see if you can tell the difference. :) Pretty soon you'll be holding the sound the correct length by habit. :D
I hope this helps! :)
Coo-coo!
Looks like a coo-coo bird's beak. Coo-coo!