Pronunciation Part 1 - From あ to そ

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Pronunciation Part 1 - From あ to そ

In this first lesson of pronunciation, you will learn to pronounce the first fifteen characters in Hiragana, and learn fifteen words at the same time.

Each character is read together with an example. Start listening, and follow the table from left to right, one row at a time.

あ	い	う	え	お
あめ	いちご	うみ	えんぴつ	おりがみ
a / ame	i / ichigo	u / umi	e / enpitsu	o / origami
Candy	Strawberry	Sea	Pencil	Origami

か	き	く	け	こ
からおけ *	きのこ	くま	けむり	こあら *
ka / karaoke	ki / kinoko	ku / kuma	ke / kemuri	ko / koala
Karaoke	Mushroom	Bear	Smoke	Koala

さ	し	す	せ	そ
さくら	しまうま	すいか	せかい	そば
sa / sakura	shi / shimauma	su / suika	se / sekai	so / soba
Cherry tree	Zebra	Water melon	World	Soba Noodles

* Please note that the words marked with * are usually written in katakana. We just used hiragana for consistency.

Origami is the traditional Japanese art of paper-folding. You may have seen a paper crane made of folded paper. That is origami. Soba is a type of Japanese noodles. Oishii yo!

Comments (35)

thank you its easy

i know what i should do now.it's not diddicult as i think.com on everybody!i think we will get it well! :D

Both "rain" and "candy" are spelled with the syllables "ame." Please see the page on pitch accents, however; there is a way of hearing the difference in this case. Unfortunately, there are many pairs of words which do sound the same (more than in English), and you can only tell which is being said by context. In writing, they can be distinguished because they are spelled with different kanji.

I was just wondering.. I thought ame was was rain???

Would love to have this on my mp3 ^^'

this is a great lesson :)

I luv this so much, and sine i know all of the characters, now i can pronounce them correctly. nothings is better than this site!

iv been pronouncing(sp?) ki all wrong.

this is great :) i love it and im really learning fast! :p

Helped me so much :D :D

thanks

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ぁめ糖果
ぃちご草莓
ぅみ海
ぇんびつ铅笔
ぉりがみ /
からぉけ卡拉OK
きのこ蘑菇
くま熊
けまり烟
こぁら考拉
さくら樱桃树
しまぅま斑马
すぃか西瓜
せかぃ世界
そば /

Now I know some other words also! :D

This is one of extremely easiest for me :D

:lol: arigatou gozaimasu! this was very easy for me to remember.

i love this its easily understandable

easily to study ............ thanks you so much .arigato gozaimasu ;)

it is really easy to remember^^

sorry but i noticed her name ^_^

just wanted to say if there are any fellow naruto anime fans here, sakura. ^_^

Sugoi ne....

If you can see kana and kanji on other sites, and not on this one, then the most likely cause is that your browser is not automatically adjusting the character encoding when you visit this site.

Your browser should have a menu called something like "View", and a menu item labeled something like "Character Encoding". Switch the encoding to Unicode (UTF-8).

i unable to c fonts on this site .. why so ?

grate!i wil lern japanese very fast now! :mrgreen:

This makes memorizing so much easier!

I will try Soba noodles as soon as I can!!
:mrgreen:

Hi Summer. The soba I've had has been very different from raamen. I would say it's as different as raamen and spaghetti. But try it if you have the opportunity! :)

I love ramen, so I wonder if soba noodles are the same.

would really love to really learn jap!! and try it when i visit the place =)
more lessons with audio =)

is soba good?? i wonder........ ;) sushi's good , rite?? so should b good....

thank you very much thats reall great, i thoght it will be so hard to learn it . and it just so easy , so ones again thank you!!

I thought this would be impossible, but this makes it easy.
A great way to learn!

omg this is really really Usefull!! thx alot

Very good

:D it beats reading from a book.

;) :) :D

co0o0o0ol

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