Hiragana

Hiragana is easy to pick up if you have at least one children’s book or manga lying around – when I taught myself kana ages and ages ago, I just took 5 characters a day (a i u e o, for each consonant), practiced them a few times, then read through a volume of manga picking out all the ones I’d learned that day and all the ones I’d learned the days before.

Structured procrastination « Dyepot, Teapot 2007

KOBODAISHI, most holy of Buddhist priests, and founder of the Shingon - sho -- which is the sect of Akira -- first taught the men of Japan to write the writing called Hiragana and the syllabary I-ro-ha; and

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

There was also Hiragana writing class for another friend.

Archive 2008-09-01 Jerine 2008

For a number of years she was an overseas correspondent for the Tokyo-based Hiragana Times, as well as a spoof agony aunt for an adult newspaper.

A NEW TERM • by Mary Cook 2008

After that the four big East Asian scripts - the Japanese Hiragana and Katakana, and phonetic and standard Chinese - if you have one of these you probably have all four.

Poll analysis artw 2008

There was also Hiragana writing class for another friend.

Thursday Thirteen: 13 Japanese Phrases Jerine 2008

So I decided to post those words here in the Japanese Kanji and Hiragana, just in case people want to see what they look like.

Metropolis movie poster and clip in German mj 2009

One month later, I graduated from the class, while other Japanese students still struggling with Hiragana and Katakana.

Friday Flashbacks (The worries of a 6 year old) Jerine 2009

One month later, I graduated from the class, while other Japanese students still struggling with Hiragana and Katakana.

Archive 2009-04-01 Jerine 2009

Course contents are clearly outlined and divided into five parts: Introduction and Hiragana (the native Japanese alphabet), Katakana (the alphabet for foreign words), Dialogues and Grammar, Voicetracks and The Homestretch.

Speaking Their Language 2008