Jane in Japanese - Your Name in Katakana, Hiragana and Romaji.
Divide your students into two teams. Draw a big tic-tac-toe grid up on the board. Choose one person of one team to start. Give them a kana or kanji. Get one of the students from one of the teams to come up and write the hiragana. If they write the hiragana correctly, then a person from the same team gets to come up and writes another kana or kanji.
Reading, Writing, and Memorizing Hiragana “I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.” - Noel Coward. This is the first chapter that really takes advantage of your head-organ. Although TextFugu tries to keep straight-up memorization to a minimum, hiragana is one of those things that you are in fact going to have to memorize (sorry!).
Hiragana table. Even though one can theoretically write the whole language in hiragana, it is usually used only for grammatical endings of verbs, nouns, and adjectives, as well as for particles, and several other original Japanese words (in contrast to loan words that are written in katakana) which are not written in kanji. Hiragana is the first of all the writing systems taught to Japanese.
Boy's names are almost always kanjis. Some people write their name in hiragana just because they like it and the stage name is sometimes written in hiragana but for the real name. The same goes for the pen name. Aesthetically, hiragana appears to be more Japanese like or cuties or softer on look. Kids remember the name better because they can.
For common English names, a dictionary lookup of about 4,000 English names is used. For other names, a learned substitution model trained on these names is applied instead.
For this reason, business cards often include the pronunciation of the name as furigana, and forms and documents often include spaces to write the reading of the name in kana (usually katakana). A few Japanese names, particularly family names, include archaic versions of characters.
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