The Katakana Alphabet (continuation).

Nowadays the Katakana alphabet is mostly used in order to write alien languages adoptions (mainly European).

Word adoptions phonation transforms strongly to be consistent with Japanese phonetics traditions. However it’s absolutely easy to determine the real origin of the word you met.

The majority of words that originated from foreign languages primarily belong to English.

teKIsuto	text	text (engl)
				BAsu	bus	bus (engl)
MIruku	milk	milk (engl)
				BIru	beer	beer (engl)
KAmera	camera	camera (engl)
				TErebi	television	television (engl)
HOteru	hotel	hotel (engl)
				PAn	bread	pao (port)
aRUBAMU	album	album (engl)
				RAjio	radio	radio (engl)
REsutoran	restaurant	restaurant (engl)
				BIru	building	building (engl)
ROshia	Russia	Rossiya (rus)
				fuRANCE	France	France (engl)
aMErika	America	America (engl)
				DOitsu	Germany	Deutche (germ)

Exercise 1

Please! Get know the next word adoptions.

While remembering try to lean to the origin foreign word.

kaREnda:	calendar	calendar (eng)
				kuRAbu	club	club (eng)
koOHi:	coffee	coffee (engl)
				JIinzu	jeans	jeans (eng)
KOnsa:to	concert	concert (eng)
				GIta:	guitar	guitar (engl)
dePAato	department	department (engl)
				KEki	cace	cace (engl)
TEkushi:	taxi	taxi (eng)
				CHIizu	cheese	cheese (eng)
aNKEeto	questionnaire, form	anquete (fr)
				TEepu	tape	tape (eng)
suKE:TO	коньки	skate (eng)
				SUki:	ski	ski (engl)

Exercise 2

Write down all new words in Katakana signs.

Следите за последовательностью рисования черт.

Text. Bus. Milk. Beer. Camera. TV-set. Hotel. Bread. Album. Radio. Restaurant. Building. Russia. France. America. Germany. Calendar. Club. Coffee. Jeans. Concert. Guitar. Department. Cake. Taxi. Cheese. Questionnaire. Tape. Skate. Ski.

До:мо Thanks Attention! The longitude of the vowel when writing in Hiragana or Katakana may be labeled differently. До:мо Thanks

Writing in Katakana remains active all the rules of pronunciation the sonorous, soft and duplicated consonants used in Hiragana.