May 2, 3 groundrules, deliverables, schedule
Japanese reading x writing system
hiragana – soft letters, made of curved lines, phonetic representation of sounds, each letter corresponds to one mora (a unit of sound), a i u e o (vowels) used to write particles, conjunctions or interjections, k s t n h m y r w (consonants)
katakana – hard letters, made of straight lines, used for foreign language or words like names of persons, cities and countries to become japanned, phonetic representation of sounds. each letter corresponds to one mora (a unit of sound)
kanji – letters introduced from China which is used for writing sounds and stem of verbs and adjectives, expresses not only sound but also meaning through pictures e.g.. ricefield, river, mountain
romaji – roman characters haves been recently been used for name of stations and on advertising words, it is intended for foreign visitors of japan, rarely used in regular sentence of japanese except as symbol or marks e.g.. randi nobureza
