Hello my lovely readers, it's time for our first post, we will be discussing the many different alphabets and writing styles around the world (for the most part).
Now, first off, we all know the English Alphabet, that's not too hard. It's just a simple twenty-six letters, that most people can understand.
Now, let's go look at something perhaps a bit more complicated. With Japanese writing, things are a bit more complicated writings - mostly, because there are three freaking ways to write. There's Hiragana, Katakana, and then there's Kanji, which, really, isn't exactly an alphabet, but it's still a way of writing.
Examples of Hiragana and Katakana is shown down here:
(this picture's also on a website called blog.asiahotels.com, should be easy to find - if you see a page with this picture and "Nihongo for Dummies" you've found it!)
One of the best practices, in my opinion, of learning how to write in these styles, is trying to write your own name. For example, my full name is "MacKenzie". So, if I were to write it in Hiragana I would take out the Ma, the Ke, the n, and, while it doesn't show it on here, add "Ji". So, my name would be turned from "MacKenzie" to "Makenji".
It's one of the best practices there is.
Now, that we have that, let's look at Russian. I'll show you Chinese/Mandarin in a little while - I'm saving it for later, for the reason that it will give you a headache trying to read, if you're anything like me. Too many symbols...
Okay, ready to see the Russian alphabet? Here you go:
Brain hurting from this? Yeah, Russian is definitely a bit of a complicated language, but, with some determination, it's easy to learn!
For memorization practices, kind of think of this: for A, K, T, and M are the same as in English. If it helps for some of you, make acronyms for them or try to find a way to make words out of them. Memorize P because of Pie, because, in my opinion, it kind of does look like the Pie symbol. Z is 3, so, just rhyme it. Z 3, Z 3, etc. O basically looks like a 0, so, that might be a good way to remember it. As for others, you'll have to come up with them yourself, because you know how you memorize stuff better than anyone.
Okay, now, let's look at German, because it is slightly easier:
See, not too bad is it? It's pretty similar to English, except for the ones with umlouts over them, as well as a couple others at the bottom. They have different pronunciations than others. Such as the ones with umlouts over them. Instead of "A" being "A" or "Ah" it would be something like "Ae" or "ae". And that B looking letter that's next to the little umlout is "esse" which, is pronounced like "essay".
For the last letterings of this part, let's look at Mandarin, which, is the one that's going to make your brain hurt a little;
Okay this is one of the more easier ways to show you the alphabet. I'm pretty sure there might be some other letterings, but, this is just a basic run-through here.
Some of you might think it's a little bit similar to Japanese. That's because Japan adopted it's writing style from China, but, they added some differences, so, they're not the same thing.
Well, that covers about this section of this series of alphabets. Next time, I'll try and cover some more, such as maybe French or Italian or Spanish.
If any of you have any suggestions to make for future posts, want to share your knowledge with me, or want to request to see something next post for a written language, leave a comment on my Google+ page or just wherever.
I'll see you guys next time. So, till we meet again, peace out!
--Kenzie
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