Read and speak the Japanese katakana

How to read and speak the Japanese katakana While most Western languages use an alphabet, Japanese uses a syllabary system, in which each "letter" represents a syllable of the word. Japanese also uses three separate syllabaries, hiragana, kanji, and katakana. Katakana has contemporarily become used primarily to transcribe foreign words that don't have an official way of being written otherwise. Watch this video Japanese language tutorial and learn how to read and speak katakana.