I also recommend anyone curious about their name use katakana not only because it's generally used for foreign names, but katakana also has the additional constructions not used in hiragana for foreign sounds.

For example the gentleman who posted his name Andy, as ����ł��Athat would technically be pronounced Ahn-day-E. Where with katakana he would simply be �A���f�� (Ahn-dhi) With the use of the half sized katakana you can make the "dee" sound without stretching it out unecessarily.

I realize that �C may not look half sized, but it's supposed to be one of those tiny ones...

yasuboy777 wrote:

I think Nico is right. Hiragana is taught first, at least on my own experience. I am not a Japanese but I went through formal Nihongo lessons and our first lesson was the Hiragana. Katakana came a little bit later. Some text (esp hard Kanji and even some Katakana) have what they call "Furigana" - that's the text (usually above the Kanji or Katakana word) denoting the reading in Hiragana. I think this was mentioned in some earlier post also

damn my japanese professor is wrong then!

*does elvis' voice* thank you. thank you very much.
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niko2x wrote:

*does elvis' voice* thank you. thank you very much.

lol~

my name shd be in katakana coz' I'm not from Japan.

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