Kimbrough Posted March 11, 2017 Report Share Posted March 11, 2017 Hello everyone and thanks for any help you can provide. In my workbook 'wakarimasu' is written わかリます but I don't understand why the katakana リ is used for 'ri' instead of the hiragana り, like the rest of the word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
宇崎ちゃん Posted March 11, 2017 Report Share Posted March 11, 2017 You're misreading, it's わかります with the Hiragana り. I understand you can easily misread it as the Katakana リ, because they look super similar. Another pitfall would be へ and ヘ, the first one being in Hiragana and the latter one being in Katakana. But as a rule of thumb: words are never, ever spelled with a mix of Hiragana and Katakana, it's either Hiragana, Kanji, Hiragana + Kanji, or Katakana. Kimbrough 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbrough Posted March 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2017 Thank you! So could my digital workbook be mistaken then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
宇崎ちゃん Posted March 14, 2017 Report Share Posted March 14, 2017 No, they still use a Hiragana り here, so the book is not wrong. You're still misreading it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiken Posted June 16, 2017 Report Share Posted June 16, 2017 There are two ways to write "ri" in Hiragana, in english we have the cursive, same with japanese. so it's either り or り. The book is not wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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