same with the small tsu which makes you kinda pause/emphasize the following consonant. Ex. あさり = asari = ah - sa - ri あっさり = assari = ah <tiny pause, hard s> s

same with the small tsu which makes you kinda pause/emphasize the following consonant. Ex. あさり = asari = ah - sa - ri あっさり = assari = ah <tiny pause, hard s> sa - ri not to be confused with あつさり which is atsusari (which is a made up word), but because the tsu is regular sized, you pronounce it instead of altering other character pronunciations. Also of note - they completely left out "n" ん in hiragana, ン in katakana. And "wo" isn't really pronounced "wo", it is pronounced just "oh" and spelled "o" in romaji. And while there is a "wo" in katakana, I have never seen it used. It is used as a particle which is inherently a native japanese thing and ergo you use hiragana for it.