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Originally Posted by GoodAnime
@MMM & jrocka83: Thank you to you both!
Another thing (So sorry for the many questions I have). With the katakana, hiragana (and kanji?), if I put one character with another by the sound they make, it creates words? I.E. - The character for 'na' (I'm talking about hiragana now) + 'ni' = What?
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If the characters are of the same set, they can be read as a word. One Kanji exists for nani - but you can also write it out phonetically in Hiragana as na+ni and it will have the same meaning. You can do the same in Katakana and it will still carry the same meaning, but look a bit odd as Katakana usually isn`t used for that purpose.
I think it`s best to look at how kids in Japan learn written Japanese. They start with all Hiragana, writing things out completely phonetically. As they learn Katakana and Kanji, they substitute them in the correct places.