Introduction to Japanese Alphabet

Japanese writing systems

The Japanese alphabet can be divided into three parts: hiragana, katakana and kanji. Hiragana and katakana are two phonetic Japanese alphabets, based on sounds. While the kanji are the ideograms; the Japanese symbols that represent ideas and

Japanese Hiragana Alphabet Japanese Calligraphy Exercises

HIRAGANA ひらがな

Train your writing with Japanese calligraphy exercises on the Japanese hiragana alphabet! The Japanese hiragana alphabet is the Japanese phonetic alphabet used to write the pronunciation of Japanese symbols and any word native to Japan.

Japanese calligraphy exercises with jouyou kanji

Japanese calligraphy exercises with jouyou kanji

Train your writing with Japanese calligraphy exercises with jouyou kanji! Below is a list of all the Japanese symbols belonging to the Jouyou Kanji. With this list, you can learn the symbols in the same sequence

The romaji and its traps

The romaji and its traps - Japanese reading

As many of us already know, the role of romaji in nihongo (日本語) is to help with the reading and pronunciation of Japanese symbols, not to replace Japanese writing with our romanized characters. This causes several problems