Katakana is used for writing foreign words

Besides hiragana, the Japanese also uses katakana in writing for foreign words and Western names. In today day's post I will list out the 46 vowels which bear the parallel of hiragana which I listed in my earlier posts. Here they are:

ア　イ　ウ　エ　オ　[a i u e o]
カ　キ　ク　ケ　コ　[ka ki ku ke ko]
サ　シ　ス　セ　ソ　[sa shi su se so]
タ　チ　ツ　テ　ト　[ta chi tse te to]
ナ　ニ　ヌ　ネ　ノ　[na ni nu ne no]
ハ　ヒ　フ　ヘ　ホ　[ha hi fu he ho]
ヤ　ユ　ヨ　[ya yu yo]
マ　ミ　ム　メ　モ　[ma mi mu me mo]
ラ　リ　ル　レ　ロ　[ra ri ru re ro]
ワ　ヲ　ン [wa wo n]

For example, hotel and Alan are written as ホテル[hoteru] and　アレン[A re n] respectively.