Let's Learn Japanese: First Words for Everyone
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Aurora Cacciapuoti
Aurora Cacciapuoti is an author and illustrator of more than a dozen books, including Let's Learn Japanese. She lives in L'Aquila, Italy.
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Let's Learn Japanese - Aurora Cacciapuoti
Introduction
Welcome to Let’s Learn Japanese!
Imagine having three different alphabets in your language to express yourself. That’s what reading and writing in Japanese is like!
The Japanese writing system is made up of two types of syllabic alphabets: hiragana ( ) and katakana ( ). There are also kanji ( ) characters, which are ideograms adopted from the Chinese. Putting these three types of characters together is called kanjikanamajiri.
All three types of characters (hiragana, katakana, and kanji) can be used in combination to write a sentence.
Hiragana is a set of writing symbols composed of 46 base characters, including 5 singular vowels, 40 consonant–vowel unions, and 1 singular consonant. Each character represents a specific sound. Hiragana characters have a more round
shape and are mainly used for the grammatical elements of sentences.