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Tech Tea
@techtea.bsky.social

I started learning Japanese. In the three days, I learned the vowels (a, i, u, e, o), the k-row (ka, ki, ku, ke, ko) with their dakuten versions (ga, gi, gu, ge, go), and the s-row (sa, shi, su, se, so) with their dakuten versions (za, ji, zu, ze, zo) from hiragana.

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Tech Tea
@techtea.bsky.social

It wasn’t easy, especially the calligraphy. I’m glad the app I use recognizes my handwriting, but it’s still meh. I often confuse some symbols, such as “a” with “o”, and “ki” with “sa”. I did learn a few words though: kao, kasa and sushi.

Tech Tea
@techtea.bsky.social

Before I started learning, I googled a bit about Japanese. Found that the words in sentences have a different order. There are three “alphabets” (not exactly, but it’s easy to think of them that way): katakana and hiragana from kana, and kanji. Don’t know what they’re for but I hope to find out soon

Japanese Talk
@japanesetalk.bsky.social

I made this which has a brief explanation of what they're used for if you're interested. Pretty much, hiragana is the phonetic representation of words and kanji can be used to make it easier to convey the meaning. Katakana is mostly used for loan words.

Tech Tea
@techtea.bsky.social

That was really helpful, thank you! So can I only use hiragana and katakana to write? Will that be ok? I think it would look childish for Japanese people.

Tech Tea
@techtea.bsky.social

I don’t have a real goal. N5 or N2, it doesn’t matter, I’ll just slowly learn Japanese in my free time. It’d be great if I could read and understand simple Japanese phases after a year of studying, but I won’t be disappointed if the learning process is slower.