I learned Katakana and Hiragana with Youtube Videos (User: HIDETCHI) and he explained quite well. That was before I learned about Tofugu and such but what I learned from him doesn’t match the content here. I’m talking about the sounds “tu” and “du”. I learned that トゥ and ドゥ are the Katakana versions of the aforementioned sounds (“tu” and “du”).

In Katakana Rules (Season 3, Chapter 2, Page 3) and the various cheat sheets it is mentioned as “to” and “do” multiple times so it can’t be a simple typo.

Did I learn it wrong before? I’m pretty sure TF is wrong here. The missing sounds that are tried to replicate are the “tu” and “du” sounds that don’t exist in normal Japanese (instead there are “tsu” and “dsu” (ツ and ヅ)). As for the sounds “to” and “do” we don’t need special rules because we already have the Katakana ト and ド.

So what do I miss?

以上です。

PS If this is already posted, I apologize. I used the search but I think it is not working correctly.

• This topic was modified 10 years, 10 months ago by  Emin Koklu.