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Japanese Writing System:

Modern Japanese is written in a mixture of three basic scripts: such as (Hiragana+Katakana+Chineese Kanji = Modern Japanese). Almost all Japanese sentences contain a mixture of kanji and kana. Because of this mixture of scripts.

HIRAGANA: Used for Native and Originalised Japanese words and plays major role of grammatical elements – 46 characters.
KATAKANA:  Used for foreign words and names, loanwords, onomatopoeia, scientific names, and sometimes for emphasis, 46 characters like hiragana, written style only differ from hiragana, otherwise syllabic sounds are same.
KANJI: which are Chinese ideographic symbols, Japanese government has approved 1,945 so-called “daily use” 漢字, if you complete those 1945, you can complete JLPT N1.

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Hiragana - ひらがな

The 1^st Step to learnJapanese language is to learn the alphabet. Japanese usually Hiragana letters for own Japanese letters, and use Katakana as foreign letters, we will discuss deeply in later. There are absolutely no Tones in Japanese like in many other Asian languages and there are only 2 exceptions within the alphabet which will be explained later. The Japanese alphabet does not contain letters but, instead, contains characters and, technically, they are not alphabets but character sets. The characters in the chart below are called Hiragana. Hiragana is the main alphabet or character set for Japanese. Japanese also consists of two other character sets - Kanji (Chinese characters), which we will get into later, and another alphabet/character set, Katakana, which is mainly used for foreign words. Katakana will be covered in Next Lesson. 

The Vowels

A – as in father. When the doctor asks you to say “Ahh” when looking into your mouth, that’s the sound we are looking for here.

I – as in machine. Yes, it’s a long “e” sound like the words “speed” or “read”.

U – as in “Jupiter”. It’s a double “o” kind of sound like “poo” or “you”.

E – as in “pen”. Enough said.

O – as in “hope”.

vowels sound something like ah, ee, oo, eh, oe. That’s it, just five vowel sounds. Please drill them into your head, as they are the essence of the language. Notice that there aren’t different versions of each vowel like in English. “A” in Japanese is always pronounced like it is in “father” and never like “apple” or “cape”. The same is true for the other vowels.

Katakana:

Katakana Addional Sounds: