Now let's study katakana. Like I said before, katakana is used for any non Japanese word. But sometimes, katakana also used if the kanji for the word is hard or just to ease people reading. A quick example for it are /baka/ usually written in 「バカ」 katakana instead of the kanji「馬鹿」. For more complete usage, refer to Wikipedia entry about katakana.


