Talk:Katakana

Talk Page copied from Talk:Hiragana & Katakana

Balloonguy 23:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC) -- The table layout looks nice, but it doesn't show the stroke order. I suggest commons:Chinese stroke order:Asian alphabets#Hiragana, which has images with the stroke order of all the hiragana and almost all of the katakana.

Xlbnushk 03:58, 17 November 2006 (UTC) -- Wow, that's...a lot. That's in the very distant future. I can't even figure out how to get the tables to work right yet.

Balloonguy 22:54, 17 November 2006 (UTC) -- I modified the table to show different ways on how to show stroke order. One way is to link to the image and the other way is to show it right on the table. We could also organize the table by having separate tables for every consonant group.

Xlbnushk 23:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC) -- Hey, good job! Now that you show me, I like the stroke order style. That's definitely a go. And the image approach resolves the display issues that the table was having with Japanese characters.

Balloonguy 21:51, 18 November 2006 (UTC) -- Were you planning on including all the kana on this page? The page would get very long if you did. Also by looking at the bottom of the page and Topic:Japanese, it seems that we are going to have a learning project for reading and writing, speaking and for culture, which is fine, but how are we going to interconnect these concepts? Also, how are we going to apply The Wikiversity model for online learning?

Xlbnushk 06:32, 19 November 2006 (UTC) -- We could create assignments for people to practice writing...and then have them scan their practice sheets, if possible? I could put together some PDF's where you would be given the romanization or the kana and would have to figure out its counterpart. Frankly, though, I don't see too much of that happening here in particular. When we get to, say, basic grammar, we could have people put sentences together. That would be much easier to coordinate; people write sentences, submit the documents.

It is very possible to scan hand sketches, drawings, or text and then upload the image in gif or jpg to Wikiversity. Use the upload file submenu under toolbox on left. It is necessary to find the html to copy to rotate the image to proper orientation in the page. Some of the complicated portals have an image rotated. Mirwin 12:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Balloonguy 20:19, 19 November 2006 (UTC) -- I've thought about it and yes you are right, when people start learning kana, we can't really make a group thing come out of it. When we get more advanced we could ask them to come up with a collaborative story or something where each person adds on to the previous person's story.

Limetom 04:44, 23 December 2006 (UTC) -- Of course after forgetting to log in, I added in all the hiragana that were finished. It seems that the dakuten, hadakuten, and yoōn hiragana aren't finished yet.

Balloonguy 19:13, 23 December 2006 (UTC) -- Good job!

66.97.202.54 12:23, 29 December 2006 (UTC) -- THIS IS MY FIRST TIME IN WIKIVERSITY! I love this page, AWESOME welldone! Im afraid that japanese lessons are scarce here. But I now know every character! Beautiful illustration! --+I propose a pronounciation guide, a la "Living Language Japanese Coursebook [The Basics]"+-=

Limetom 12:49, 7 January 2007 (UTC) -- Katakana are now up. As with hiragana, the dakuten, hadakuten, and yoōn kana are not yet done. I don't know who did/is doing them, but I'd be glad to finish if I could figure out how they did it (and assuming I can do what they did in Photoshop in GIMP...)