Katakana Literary Works

ながれぼし
にほんごマスター
ねがうじん(my name Jin)

クリスマス　

かくちのデモも　

ひとやすみ

It is already December and we can witness Christmas decoration everywhere.

For couple of months, many of newspaper have reported demonstration about current economic recession. However, I wanted to say that Christmas would bring good influence on them to take a distance from anger.

こくないけいき　

オバマほどには　

たかまらず

When Obama was elected as President, people's expectation for the change was extremely high and people expected economy would be better. However, he seems like he was not able to change the world in a great deal yet. The most expected change which was about depression has not been recovered yet.

 

オバマにも　

さきがよめない　

けいきとにんき
President Obama cannot predict how depression and popularity would be in the future.

President Obama hopes that he would earn popularity for his second presidential campaign. However, at the same time he has been struggling to deal with depression.

Yuhki Kuramoto-Meditation

Me, 20 Years from now

にじゅうねんごのわたしはふたりのこどものおとうさんです。
コンサルティングかいしゃのパートナーです。
まいあさしちじにおきます。わたしのうまのりょうりをたべます。
まいにちごせんくじからごごごじまでかいしゃではたらきます。
かいしゃまでわたしのくるまでいきます。
それからつまとこどもといっしょにばんごはんをたべます。
わたしのうちなかにえいがのシアターセットがありますからかぞくでえいがをみます。
にほんごがじょうずです。

Katakana Analysis

カタカナ　Analysis　ブログ　

Katakana is largely categorized to three parts.

Emphasize

Sometimes katakana is used to emphasize something

For example, when Japan has a national big match such as soccer or baseball.

ニッポン(Nippon)

It is used as katakana since it can emphasize more than using hiragana. For example, during the soccer match, the supporter can send their power to the soccer players saying "nippon" instead of nihon because the word "nippon" is more appealing to their heart.  

Loan words

Followed by English pronunciation.

Based on the English pronunciation, Japanese created new words by using Katakana. 

ユニクロ(UNIQLO)

オーダーメード(order made)

キーホルダー(key holder)

テニス(tennis)

スポーツ(sports)

ピーチ(peach)

ゴルフ(golf)

パンツ(pants)

Onomatopoeia

Imitated the sounds in Katakana.

パオーン(elephant’s crying sound)

ニャー(cat’s sound)

ピーポーピーポー(ambulance sound)