Learn and Speak Japanese

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The Japanese language has three writing systems: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji! Hiragana is used for native words and grammar, Katakana is for foreign words and emphasis, and Kanji (borrowed from Chinese) represents whole ideas.

But here’s a challenge for you:
Can you guess how many Kanji characters an average Japanese person knows? 🤔

A 1,000
B 2,136
C 5,000

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C) Water
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Hiragana is the backbone to all Japanese learning. It helps you learn the basics of pronunciation in Japanese and start to understand the building blocks of the language.

Conveniently, the katakana character set covers the same sounds as hiragana. Some of the characters even look a bit similar, like ‘mo’ – も and モ – and ‘ya’ – や and ヤ.

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