Learn Hiragana & Katakana

in that it allowed me to better understand Bronze Age, especially Aegean scripts and the people who developed them.

I learned the hiragana a few months ago and I just finished learning the katakana last night. I’m stoked :) I bought a couple childrens books in japanese and, though I don’t understand all of the words, reading it is fun :)

Its actually not that hard when you get the basic set up. Flash cards can help, but what really helped me was just writing them out over and over, so it sticks with you.

I found learning Katakana a bit of a drag, so I made a little game. If you use gtalk or the chat thingy in gmail, you can try out the game by talking to jappaserver@gmail.com Just say to him ‘start’ and he will start a fun game to help you learn.

ok so i looked at a couple of websites and one said an easy way was to just keep writing hiragana and katakana till i memorize it but i get distracted i hav a flash card software but it cant help me if i dont kno them tho kanji i will learn after kana but i need help!!!!!!If i had a website tht made learning it fun then mabee i would remember or a fun game tht helped u guys remember but plz some one help me!!

I learned hiragana/katakana a couple years back, when I was learning some basic conversational Japanese. It seemed to help deepen my understanding of the language in general. Flash-cards, focusing on one or two sets of them a week, and writing them repeatedly (including words using the ones I had already learned) were the keys to retaining them. In a couple of months, I had ‘em all down perfect and I still recognize them all now! :)

I’ve finally learned to write Hiragana Na through N! Which means I can now also write Ga through Po, I just have to remember on which characters the two dots or circle go!

I’m going to start practice reading a lot of Hiragana to get used to recognizing the characters.

I wouldn’t say I’ve mastered Hiragana quite yet, but I’m getting there!

After practicing and re-writing, with the help of flashcards, I can now write Hiragana characters A through To!

I used to know hiragana and katakana when I was very young (7), when my parents and I lived in Japan for two years. Unfortunately I’ve since forgotten everything… I have been saying for a long time that I would like to learn Japanese again. Now I’m finally doing it! I enrolled in a night Japanese class at my local community college, and we are learning hiragana right now. I hope I will retain this information and be able to read Japanese soon! :)

This is definitely the first step in learning Japanese. Well worth sitting down and memorizing the kana if you’re serious about the language.