私の日本語の本(二) My Japanese Book (2)

Hiragana to Romaji

I completely forgot to add this in my old book...

あ -------- a
い -------- i
う -------- u
え -------- e
お -------- o

*か -------- ka
*き -------- ki
*く -------- ku
*け -------- ke
*こ -------- ko

*さ -------- sa
*し -------- si
*す -------- su
*せ -------- se
*そ -------- so

*た -------- ta
*ち -------- ti
*•つ -------- tsu
*て -------- te
*と -------- to

な -------- na
に -------- ni
ぬ -------- nu
ね -------- ne
の -------- no

~*は -------- ha
~*ひ -------- hi
~*ふ -------- hu
~*へ -------- he
~*ほ -------- ho

ま -------- ma
み -------- mi
む -------- mu
め -------- me
も -------- mo

•や -------- ya
(い) ------ i
•ゆ --------yu
(え) ------ e
•よ -------- yo

ら -------- ra
り -------- ri
る -------- ru
れ -------- re
ろ -------- ro
(The r is pronounced with an l)

わ -------- wa
を -------- wo
ん -------- n

That's not all the hiragana characters though:
If you are observant you would have noticed that I have purposely put stars beside some of the characters while others have dots.

Stars: The letters with the stars can have to dots/lines over on the top right of the character. These are known as dakuten. These make the words sound a bit more unclear (If that's the word to it)

Dakuten characters:

が ------- ga
ぎ ------- gi
ぐ ------- gu
げ ------- ge
ご ------- go

ざ ------- za
じ ------- ji
ず ------- zu
ぜ ------- ze
ぞ ------- zo

だ ------- da
ぢ ------- ji (for some keyboards type in di)
づ ------- zu (some keyboards: du)
で ------- de
ど ------- do

ば ------- ba
び ------- bi
ぶ ------- bu
べ ------- be
ぼ ------- bo

Some of them have a same sound to them. For example: じ and ぢ (both pronounced as ji)

For the ones with ~ beside them can be written with a small circle in the top right corner.

ぱ ------- pa
ぴ ------- pi
ぷ ------- pu
ぺ ------- pe
ぽ ------- po

Since this is going to be a long chapter I'm going to make a part two.