Katakana and some vocab

Hooray! I finished learning my katakana! I now know all of them, so I can read! Slowly... very slowly... and the Japanese habit of not putting spaces between words really messes me up because I can't tell what belongs together, but I can still read. And, I figured out how to type in hiragana and katakana on my computer without having to copy and paste every character... it's much more convenient. However, I'm not always sure whether words that I learn belong in hiragana or katakana (although probably most of them have kanji that I haven't learned yet...) so I'm writing everything in hiragana unless it's an obvious borrowing from English. 

My vocab of a few days ago:

ぎゅうにゅう　- gyuunyuu - cow's milk

まけます　- makemasu - to be defeated, to lose

かきます　- kakimasu - to write

この　ごろ　- kono goro - recently 

あっけない　- akkenai - short and simple

とります　- torimasu - to take, get, or obtain