Hajimeshite. ?????desu. - はじめして。？？？？？です。

asharpe19988356 · Postby **asharpe19988356** » July 25th, 2013 1:51 am

こんいちわ!
I need some help

I want to know how to write my name in kana, but I can't figure out how.
おねがいします。 Please help!

Oh... and my name is Austin.

mmmason8967 · Postby **mmmason8967** » July 25th, 2013 7:58 am

Austin is: オースティン

It's in katakana, and it works like this:-

オー　= o + o = long o
ス　　= su
ティ　= te + i = ti
ン　　= n

マイケル

asharpe19988356 · Postby **asharpe19988356** » July 26th, 2013 5:06 am

おねがいします
I haven't gotten far in the Kantan Kana series, so I didn't know anything about how that worked.

community.japanese · Postby **community.japanese** » July 26th, 2013 6:10 am

オースティンsan, マイケルsan,
こんにちは

Thank you very much, マイケルsan, for the kind help!
Austin-san, now you know how to write your name :wink:

Foreign names are written with katakana,
so you can practice your name first, and leave the rest for later if you want :mrgreen:

From the title of this thread, I just want to mention how to write all those lines correctly as well.
Hope you'll find it helpful as well. :wink:

こんにちは。 ("kon'nichiwa"; please note the final "wa")
はじめまして。 ("hajime mashite")
オースティンです。 ("Oosutin desu")

Natsuko(奈津子),
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