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Hello and welcome new fabulous students.

My name is Daisuke and I am a new teacher here in the guild. I speak multiple languages so I can possibly help with almost any of your language learning needs.
I will provide a list of languages that I know and languages that I would like to learn below :

Languages that I can teach:

Mandarin, Japanese, Tagalog, and some Thai. I'm not that good at anything else xD



Languages that I would like to learn:

Korean and Vietnamese ( I can only speak a little )

Now, many of you are probably wondering why I know so much about different languages. Well, it is a simple fact that my family speaks in a form of language blending called Haizai. I don't know anything about it's history all that I knew was that it composed of me having to learn many languages to be able to understand it clearly.

Once again, welcome to my classroom.

Thank you!

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A [ あ ] I [ い ] U [ う ] E [ え ] O [ お ]

Common Phrases
共通フレーズ


Hello - Konnichiwa - こんにちは - [ Ko-n-ni-chi-wa ]

How are you? ( Are you well/healthy? ) - あなたは健康ですか？- [ Anata wa kenko desu ka? ]

^ The line above is more formal than it is commonly used "O genki desu ka?" would be more common.

What is your name? - あなたの名前は何ですか？- [ Anata no namae wa nanidesu no ka? ]

My name is ( I am... ) - 私の名前は ( 私は... ) - [ Watashi no namae wa ( Watashi wa... ) ]

Pleased to meet you - あなたに会えてうれしいです。- [ Anata ni aete ureshii desu. ]


Helpful hints

Hiragana consists of a basic set of characters: five singular vowels, 39 distinct consonant-vowel unions and one singular consonant. Additionally, を wo is included (although pronounced the same as vowel お o, [o]), bringing up the total count of common-use characters to 46.

These basic characters can be modified in various ways. By adding a dakuten marker ( ゛), a voiceless consonant is turned into a voiced consonant: k→g, s→z, t→d, and h→b. Hiragana beginning with an h can also add a handakuten marker ( ゜) changing the h to a p.

A small version of the hiragana for ya, yu or yo (ゃ, ゅ or ょ respectively) may be added to hiragana ending in i. This changes the i vowel sound to a glide (palatalization) to a, u or o. Addition of the small y kana is called yōon.

A small tsu っ, called a sokuon, indicates that the following consonant is geminated (doubled). For example, compare さか saka "hill" with さっか sakka "author". It also sometimes appears at the end of utterances, where it denotes a glottal stop. However, it cannot be used to double the na, ni, nu, ne, no syllables' consonants – to double them, the singular n (ん) is added in front of the syllable.

Hiragana usually spells long vowels with the addition of a second vowel kana. The chōon (long vowel mark) (ー) used in katakana is rarely used with hiragana, for example in the word らーめん, rāmen, but this usage is considered non-standard. In informal writing, small versions of the five vowel kana are sometimes used to represent trailing off sounds (はぁ hā, ねぇ nē). Standard and voiced iteration marks are written in hiragana as ゝ and ゞ respectively.

One, this is the Asian Guild lol and two nice to meet you I'm the new multi-lingual teacher.