When I was a little girl I always wanted to be Japanese
My name Helene can be written in kanji like this: 平怜
My name Helene looks like in katakana: ヘレン
My name Helene looks like in hiragana: へれん
This is how my name Helene would be pronounced in Japanese: he-re-n.
Funny huh! I love this language and find the people and couture
Fantastic I would love to one day go to Japan and do the
Cherry blossom tour,it a ould just be mind blowing and beautiful.
I have a two Japanese tattoos one one my back that's says
Self control because at the time I really needed to center myself
And had to learn a few my life lessons I will put a picture up of it.
The other Japanese tattoo I have is behind my left ear and it says
Live Laugh Love and it's my new motto for my life !
I will do a blog on my tattoos another time ..
Now back to the language I started to lean this in high school
and was very fast a picking it up and at one stage was speaking this
Very well I continued to lean and pick up new stuff daily I loved it .
I had fun when my son Zachary started to lean Japanese too
Some days we would only talk to each other in Japanese it was
Just funny and silly . Now I don't talk it much unless on holidays
When I run in to new people whome speak this as their first language .
So here are some things I can pass on if your looking to
Learn this amazing language I found this very helpful while learning
Myself so I am going to give you a few pointers to get you on your way
Let's start with Hiragana The first step to learning the Japanese language is
to learn the alphabet. Or, at least, to learn the sounds that exist in the language.
There are absolutely no "tones" in Japanese like in many other asian languages
and there are only two exceptions within the alphabet which I will go in to later
The Japanese alphabet does not contain letters but, instead, contains characters
and, technically, they are not alphabets but character sets. The characters in the
chart below are called Hiragana. Hiragana is the main alphabet or character set
for Japanese. Japanese also consists of two other character sets -
Kanji (Chinese characters), which we will get into later, and another
alphabet/character set, Katakana, which is mainly used for foreign words.
Once again I hope you liked my random
blog on the Japanese Language ! Thanks For Reading
Thoughts By Me Miss Squeak80 Live Laugh Love ..