To translate your favorite words or names into kanji you need the
katakana alphabet and some basic rules, because often it is difficult to
find the right pronunciation of English word in Japanese. There are a
lot of sounds, which don’t have an equivalent in Japanese katakana so
that they have to be built with combinations.
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Modern Japanese texts are a mixture from kanji,
hiragana and some interspersed katakana. All the three types have got
their very special function. In the following you can find some of the
basic rules in which cases you use the two syllablewritings.

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Hiragana & Katakana

The more simple kana-syllablesigns derived from the complicated
Chinese characters, because it was too complex to write long Japanese
words with those sophisticated Chinese signs.
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