Transliteration of Katakana into English sased on the Romanization of Japanese for Learners of Japanese

摘要

It is difficult for learners of Japanese to understand meanings of katakana words, because pronunciation of loan words written by katakana differs from its original English pronunciation. This paper introduces a support system for understanding of katakana words using transliteration katakana into English based on the romanization of Japanese. Furthermore, effectiveness of the system was evaluated.