When do I use the different types of japanese writing
pleas i wanna know There are 3 styles i believe (i'm not including romaji)
why are there 3? and when would you use each one?
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Hiragana ひらがな = Traditional Japanese
Katakana かたかな = Used for words only from foreign languages (like "taxi", "hotel", "milk", "drama", "sponsor" and such)
And finally you have the Kanji, which the Japanese took from Chinese.
I don't exactly know why they need to write in Kanji but they just do.
In order to write standard Japanese you will absolutely need to study these symbols.
Woman (onna) in
1. Hiragana -> おんな
2. Katakana -> オンナ (of course you wouldn't use Katakana for onna, since it's not a foreign word)
3. Kanji -> 女
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All the time.
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