We will learn how the written Japanese language works and learn the two basic languages, the Hiragana and Katakana.
There are three distinct characters in Japanese, each representing the English writing besides it:
- Hiragana: ひらがな
- Katakana: カタカナ
- Kanji: 漢字
The hiragana and katakana are similar systems. They represent sounds in syllables and you should be fluent in both of them. There are many resources for learning how to write hiragana and how to write katakana.
The Kanji has thousands upon thousands of characters, but with just learning few hundreds you can start reading in Japanese. This is an ideographic character set, where each character has one or many meanings.