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Basic Japanese
This page is to help people learn enough basic Japanese in order to play the game. Whilst this wiki will provide translations, learning the basic kana (characters) of Japanese will make navigation much easier (by being able to read the hiragana of station names and enter them into the search box).
Japanese has 3 types of writing:
Some useful conversation phrases are on the Basic Conversation page.
For external links to Japanese study sites, see this page.
Hiragana
Hiragana is the most important kana to learn to play Meet-me, as there are not too many characters to learn (46 main characters + variations).
Japanese has 3 types of writing:
- Hiragana
- Katakana
- Kanji
Some useful conversation phrases are on the Basic Conversation page.
For external links to Japanese study sites, see this page.
Hiragana
Hiragana is the most important kana to learn to play Meet-me, as there are not too many characters to learn (46 main characters + variations).
Check here for a hiragana conversion table, to allow you to read any hiragana word you find in Meet-me.
Hirgana chart
This video lists all the modern hiragana characters and pronounces them in turn.
Also, it does it with a catchy tune to help memorise the hiragana.
This video lists all the modern hiragana characters and pronounces them in turn.
Also, it does it with a catchy tune to help memorise the hiragana.
Katakana
For Meet-me, katakana is less useful than hiragana, but is used for some words, especially the icons.
Katakana is typically used to write loan words (words from other countries) and changes the pronunciation of the loan word into Japanese pronunciation (so it can take practice to recognise the original meaning of a word when converting to romaji).
Katakana also has the 'ー' character which symbolises that the previous sound is elongated. This can also be expressed in romaji by adding an extra vowel, but is important to remember this means elongation whereas in English it can change the sound completely (romaji 'e' is pronounced 'eh' and romaji 'ee' is pronounced 'ehh')
Some examples used in Meet-me:
Kanji
Kanji is the character set derived from Chinese and is the most difficult to learn (even for Japanese people). It contains many thousands of characters and it is necessary to learn around 1500 characters to read a Japanese newspaper.
These characters look a lot more complex than hiragana or katana and can be very daunting to a non-Japanese speaker.
All kanji can be converted into hiragana for easier reading (though when kanji are combined, the way to read the kanji can change)
Here are some useful kanji to learn for Meet-me
For Meet-me, katakana is less useful than hiragana, but is used for some words, especially the icons.
Katakana is typically used to write loan words (words from other countries) and changes the pronunciation of the loan word into Japanese pronunciation (so it can take practice to recognise the original meaning of a word when converting to romaji).
Katakana also has the 'ー' character which symbolises that the previous sound is elongated. This can also be expressed in romaji by adding an extra vowel, but is important to remember this means elongation whereas in English it can change the sound completely (romaji 'e' is pronounced 'eh' and romaji 'ee' is pronounced 'ehh')
Some examples used in Meet-me:
| Katakana | Romaji | English |
| ステータス | suteetasu | status |
| データ | deeta | data |
| アイテム | aitemu | item |
Kanji
Kanji is the character set derived from Chinese and is the most difficult to learn (even for Japanese people). It contains many thousands of characters and it is necessary to learn around 1500 characters to read a Japanese newspaper.
These characters look a lot more complex than hiragana or katana and can be very daunting to a non-Japanese speaker.
All kanji can be converted into hiragana for easier reading (though when kanji are combined, the way to read the kanji can change)
Here are some useful kanji to learn for Meet-me
| Kanji | Hiragana | English |
| 男 | おとこ | Man / Male |
| 女 | おんな | Woman / Female |
| 駅 | えき | Train station |
| 東京 | とうきょう | Tokyo |
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