Katakana Reading Practice

We know that it’s hard to get a good practice for katakana so we try to make one for you. We hope you like it and help you to improve your reading skills!

Most Katakana practices include just the word, but we believe that presenting a full sentence which have a lot of katakana words, in combination with particle and hiragana as in normal sentence will be a better way to practice reading. It will also help your brain to detect the pattern of Japanese sentence.

Things to note

• In Katakana, ー means that you need to hold the sound of longer.
So コヒー is KOHII (double I).
• The one in bold is particle. So read the red は as WA. Note that particles are always written in Hiragana. Particles in the sentence are red, so you can notice them and learn the structure sentence unconciously.
• Since most Katakana is Foreign and English words, we hide the translations or else it might be quite easy to figure the reading, hehe…

Let’s start the reading practice!

1. ヘンドリックソンがあのデパートでアーロンのセーターを買いました。

2. アルフレッドはキウイやオレンジやストロベリーやすっぱいくだものがすきですよ！

3. マクドナルドとメリンダはロロマンチックなカップルカップルです。

4. このビルディングのべースメントはレストランとカフェがあります。

5. パトリックはビールやワインやアルコールをのみますか。

Note A subtle different might change the meaning. For example, building is ビルヂング but often being abbreviated as ビル. If you hold the I in BI so it becomes BIIRU ビール, it means beer.

6. スティープンはスーパーマーケットでチョコレートとレッドキャベジとマヨネーズがかいました。

7. ダスティンはフィリピンとブラジルとニュージーランドへいったことがあります。

8. ネルソンとタイラーとガーブリエルはベストフレンドです。

Note Sometimes Japanese loves to use foreign words like OK! UP (UPgrade)! BEAUTIFUL! when it seems cool/fancy/appropriate, even though they might have the words in Japanese too.

9. ディクソンはベトナムごとインドネシアごがじょうずです。

Note Adding ご (語) after a name of a country, makes it as “Country Name language”.
Ex: Japanese language: にほんご (日本語), Chinese language ちゅうごくご (中国語).
But some language have it’s own name, like えいご (英語) which means English.

10. ライオンやカンガルーやシマウマはどうぶつえんでみられますよ！

Note You may notice that Zebra is written in Katakana even though that it’s written as a Japanese language (Shimauma). This is because, most of plants and animals name that are rarely being used in everyday conversations is written in Katakana in Japan. So for SAKURA flower and INU (dog), it will be written as hiragana. But turtle, dolphin, kinds of plants like Shitake Mushroom/ Himawari flower, will most likely be written in katakana.