To practice reading Hiragana characters I've started reading Yotsuba just now and have already stumpled upon something that confuses me:
Regarding these symbols:
1: What does this symbol do? What is it called anyways? I haven't seen this in any Hiragana/Katakana(haven't started learning these yet) character set.
2: Does this stretch the "O" out, such as: "ooooo"?
3: Same as #2. Is this going to be "oooooootsu" then?
4: One Yotsuba unrelated question:
I read "始めましょう" on a website, which apparently translates to something like "Lets begin".
Anyways, I haven't learnt the first symbol yet, so I can not read it anyway. But when translating this I get: "Hajimemashou"
But if I break the word up into: 始(Haji) め(me) ま(ma) し(chi) ょ(yo) う(u). How can "Hajimemashou" become "Hajimemachiyou" ? This confuses me a lot.
Any help is kindly appreciated!
Thanks alot in advance!
Regarding these symbols:
1: What does this symbol do? What is it called anyways? I haven't seen this in any Hiragana/Katakana(haven't started learning these yet) character set.
2: Does this stretch the "O" out, such as: "ooooo"?
3: Same as #2. Is this going to be "oooooootsu" then?
4: One Yotsuba unrelated question:
I read "始めましょう" on a website, which apparently translates to something like "Lets begin".
Anyways, I haven't learnt the first symbol yet, so I can not read it anyway. But when translating this I get: "Hajimemashou"
But if I break the word up into: 始(Haji) め(me) ま(ma) し(chi) ょ(yo) う(u). How can "Hajimemashou" become "Hajimemachiyou" ? This confuses me a lot.
Any help is kindly appreciated!
Thanks alot in advance!