Learn the Hiragana alphabet!

  With this program in Flash, you will learn to read the alphabet in Hiragana, a basic writer japanese system. You can learn too Japanese numbers, Katakana (more advanced writer japanese system) and the basic words in Japanese with our courses. Too you can convert Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji into Roman letters. Or if your wanna to learn other alphabets visit other alphabets main page.

  Hiragana (平仮名, ひらがな or ヒラガナ) is a Japanese syllabary, one basic component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and the Latin alphabet (rōmaji). Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems, in which each character represents one mora. Each kana is either a vowel such as "a" (あ); a consonant followed by a vowel such as "ka" (か); or "n" (ん), a nasal sonorant which, depending on the context, sounds either like English m, n, or ng ([ŋ]), or like the nasal vowels of French.

  Hiragana is used to write native words for which there are no kanji, including particles such as から kara "from", and suffixes such as さん ~san "Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms." Likewise, hiragana is used in words for which the kanji form is obscure, not known to the writer or readers, or too formal for the writing purpose. Verb and adjective inflections, as, for example, be-ma-shi-ta (べました) in tabemashita (食べました?, "ate"), are written in hiragana, often following a verb or adjective root (here 食) that is written in kanji. Hiragana is also used to give the pronunciation of kanji in a reading aid called furigana. The article Japanese writing system discusses in detail how the various systems of writing are used.

  There are two main systems of ordering hiragana, the old-fashioned iroha ordering, and the more prevalent gojūon ordering. (for more information visit wikipedia.org)

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   In the next image you can see... Left: Roomaji (occidental), Middle: Hiragana, Right: Katakana.

Representation of Japanese sounds (Hiragana, Katakana).