こんにちは！ I will be putting together a series on learning hiragana, to not only help myself solidify the hiragana I have learned, but to also help guide you through learning hiragana as well. Learning hiragana ensures that the rest of your Japanese learning goes smoothly. To say that learning hiragana will create a foundation for your Japanese, would be an extreme understatement. You see, by taking the time to learn hiragana, you will be learning the very basics of Japanese pronunciation. This was the first step for my own journey to learning Japanese, and should be yours as well. What is Hiragana exactly? You will find that hiragana is one of three parts of the Japanese writing system. The other two parts of the writing system are katakana and kanji, which we will focus on later. Hiragana is also a syllabary, and not an alphabet. Confused yet? Let’s examine this difference in greater detail, shall we? An alphabet as you know, is full of letters which represent single consonants and vowels. Where as, a syllabary represents characters that contain the sounds of syllables. Need an example? Well, in English, the alphabet we have consists of letters such as “i” and […]

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