Hiragana and katakana work sort of like our alphabet in that you can use these phonetic systems to create any word in the Japanese language.

Learn to write and read Hiragana, one of the basic Japanese syllabaries. Free download of PDF Hiragana chart. Japan's public broadcaster, NHK, provides these reliable Japanese lessons.

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Katakana, like hiragana, is a way of writing syllables, but is used, on the whole, for terms which have been incorporated into Japanese from other languages. Common examples are ...