Katakana Exercise: Recognize and Write the 46 Characters
In brief Number of characters: 46 basic katakana, organized into 5 vowel rows (a, i, u, e, o) Main usage: transcribing words of foreign origin, onomatopoeia, and foreign proper nouns Distinctive feature: angular and rectilinear strokes, unlike the more rounded hiragana Long vowel: indicated by the horizontal dash ー (chōonpu), specific to katakana Frequent difficulty: […]