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Kantan Kana S2 #8
Kantan Kana #8: Hiragana , , and
long vowels

CONTENTS
2
2
2

Vocabulary
Sample Sentences
Grammar

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VOCABULARY
Kanji

Kana

R omaji

English
vacation

chikai

close, near

atarash

new

koko

here

kk

high school

big

kuts

pain

kutsu

shoes

yokohama

Yokohama

tsuyoi

strong

fuyu

winter

yuki

snow

hayai

fast

Saynara.

Goodbye.

SAMPLE SENTENCES

Mina-san, saynara
Good bye, everyone.

GRAMMAR
Lesson #8 -
number of strokes: 3

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KANTAN KANA S2 #8 - KANTAN KANA #8: HIRAGANA , , AND LONG VOWELS

 is very tricky to get right. The third stroke comes in at a slight angle.
number of strokes: 2
Start with a straight line, come all the way around like you're drawing a fish, but don't connect
at the end. Then come from straight above the loop, cut it and curve to the left.
number of strokes: 2
Start with a straight line, then come straight down, do a loop and finish like this.
Long Vowels:
Do you know the word ? It means "shoes." What about this word? . This means
"pain." The difference between and may not sound like much. For , we just
hold the "u" sound for twice as long as we do in . This sound is one of the long
vowels in Japanese.
Japanese has the 5 vowels and , and their lengthened versions are, "ahh,"
"ee," "ooh", "ehh" and "ohh."

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