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Lesson #1: The “Alphabets”

Summary-

Romanji: romanization of Japanese- basically useless, waste of time

Hiragana: Main phonetic alphabet- most important, learn immediately

Katakana: secondary phonetic alphabet- Same as Hiragana, but with different symbols, used for foreign words and menus

Kanji: Characters imported from China- most difficult, used for vocabulary

Thoughts-

I knew most of this stuff, but it was a good refresher course. If you want to learn anything right, do it as if you are learning it for the first time. I look forward to actually learning how to write and read in hiragana.