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Learning Japanese kana
Two syllabaries, 92 shapes, one small step a day
Hiragana done, halfway through katakana. Ten minutes a day, after coffee.
Japanese writes with three scripts. Kana are the two phonetic ones: hiragana for native words and grammar, katakana mostly for foreign words.Kanji, the third script, comes later. Every guide I trust says: kana first, all of them, before anything else.
Hiragana that came from kanji
Each hiragana is a kanji written fast enough that it melted. Seeing the origin helped me remember them.
Kana | Sound | From |
|---|---|---|
あ | a | 安 |
い | i | 以 |
う | u | 宇 |
か | ka | 加 |
ぬ | nu | 奴 |
Quick self-test
ね sounds like... ne
め sounds like... me
The katakana for "coffee" is コーヒー. The long dash means... the vowel before it is held longer
Related: How I tend this garden (this is how I review: short, every day).