Hi bushyhaired. Hiragana, Katakana, Romaji and Kanji are four ways to express japanese language. Hiragana is used for their native words, Katakana is used to write foreign words. Kanji are characters that could mean a word or a phrase, that is, they want to make life easire my sketching a character to mean “I drank tequila the whole night”, or something like that.. Romaji is their way to writing words using the Roman letters. Like “Watashi wa Shanak de su.” which means “I am Shanak.”

And oh, a japanese IT company taught me 4th level nihongo (japanese language) last year, in case you’re not convinced.

Shanak