Visited Japan for a month and I am obsessed.
Taberu unlocked the drill 'Practicing Yōon: Rōmaji to Hiragana'
5 days agoTaberu completed the lesson 'Gya! Learning Yōon'
5 days agoTaberu unlocked the drill 'Listen Closely for Long Vowels and Sokuon'
1 week agoTaberu completed the lesson 'Reading Rules: Long Vowels and Sokuon っ'
1 week agoTaberu finished the quiz 'Hiragana や to ん' and scored 100%
2 weeks agoTaberu unlocked the drill 'Do you know わ, を and ん?'
3 weeks agoTaberu completed the lesson 'Final Hiragana: わ, を and ん'
3 weeks agoTaberu unlocked the drill 'Last Set: ら to ろ'
1 month agoTaberu completed the lesson 'Let's Learn R Hiragana ら to ろ'
1 month agoTaberu unlocked the drill 'や, ゆ, or よ?'
2 months ago
おはようございます、うさぎさん。 Sorry for missing you message, To answer your question, a little vowel (such as ィ) is used when you have characters like ち、し、つ、etc... that have an altered sound but you want the pure sound. your example was a good one: we can't say パーチー because that would be (paachii) the ch sound isn't there, so instead we used テ paired with the little vowel. the え column is usually used simply because it has no irregular characters. (all of which consistently lie in the い and う columns) so now we get: パーティー (paatii) Hope this helps