ABSTRACT
Four types of writing system are used in Japanese: hiragana, katakana, kanji and, to a lesser degree, roomaji. A very general description of each type follows the example sentence below.
妻はフランス語の通訳としてUNで働いています。 Tsuma wa Furansugo no tsuuyaku toshite UN de hataraite imasu. wife topic France-language ’s interpreter as UN at work-ing is Kj H Kt Kj H Kj H R H Kj H H (H: hiragana; Kt: katakana; Kj: kanji; R: roomaji) (My) wife works (Lit. is working) for the UN as a French interpreter.
