Learning Japanese the Rubyist wayNOTE: If the above examples do not look like Japanese, you have an encoding issue. Make sure that your browser encoding is set to UTF-8. Katakana, on the other hand, was often used alongside with Kanji so that people can understand how to pronounce the Kanji. Nowadays, Katakana is often used to represent new words which came from foreign countries. eg: 漢字（カンジ）, ルビー (Trivia. The above example is ex
