Hiragana Charts
Many people use Hiragana charts as a way to help them understand the Japanese written language. The unfortunate thing about these Hiragana charts is that they don’t really teach you much. They are best used as a reference when learning of the Japanese language. The fact that the Japanese written language is so vastly different from ours is something that keeps many people from learning it. If you have ever looked at a Japanese newspaper or even the packaging on Japanese Food you probably will have noticed that the very characters they use to form words are very different from are alphabet.
The Japanese written language is called Hiragana and it is made up of different characters rather than letters. This is what makes Japanese so much more difficult to learn compared to other languages. If you want to learn Spanish, French, or Italian the letters are all the same and you just need to learn how to rearrange those letters to form a different language. With Japanese the letters are all different so it takes longer to learn than other languages.
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