Writing Project

Becuase of this homework, i discovered that Katakana is always with us.

As Hong Kong people love to use Japanese goods, we can easily find things with Katakana on them.

I think people must be so familiar with Katakana though they may not know the meaning of them.

Of the things i found at home, i chose 3 to illustrate the usage of katakana.

1. Onomatopoeia

  

This the the envelop i found in my bedroom. I brought it when i was in Form 2.

At thet time, i didn't understand the word next to the cartoon.

At first i thought they were just some decoration.

But after i learn Japanese, i know that it is something to immitate the sound by using words.

For example the first picture, the words プハーッ is the sound produced after drinking beer.  

And the second one イェーイ is the sound "yeah'.

These words can express the feeling of the characters such as excitement and happiness.

2. Emphasized words:

This is the thing (sorry i don't know the name of it) that we need when we are cleaning our dishes.

The word ピカピカ means "shiny". 

Sometime, we use Katakana to emphasize the message we would like to bring out.

For this, the company want to pursue people to buy their product by using the Katakana above ,

to empahsize the product can make their oily dishes become clean and shiney once again.

They use the Katakana to attract people's eyes and attention, so more people will buy it.

3. Loan Words:

This is the aroma that i bought from a famous Japanes shop in Hong Kong.
I have to use it everyday before i sleep.
I seldom look at the Katakana on the label as their are Enlgish below.
アロマミスト is the loan word of Aromatic Mist.
We use Katakana becuase this is a foreign word which cannot be originally found in Japanese.
So we need Katakana to express it.

If we pay more attention, we can find many examples in our daily lives.

It is quite interesting as you may find out something that you used to neglect it.

Thius can help us to know/understand more about our lives  :)