Pronunciation Practice 1
Your Tasks

Pronounce each カタカナ (katakana) character from top to bottom, starting from the rightmost column of the chart. Click on each character to hear its pronunciation. Also, try to pronounce each column all at once. (Ignore the ones in gray.)


Culture
katakana

Japanese comic books are filled with sound expressions and onomatopoeias (e.g., footsteps, something moving quickly, something colliding, etc.). These are often written in katakana. Can you find the following katakana characters in the picture on the left?

ダダダダ…
ダンッ
ビッ
ドビュ

The comic book is らんま1/2 (Vol. 1) authored by Rumiko Takahashi.