Myan yokeosso.

Hi everybody, my name is Chihiro and welcome to JapanesePod 101.com's

Kantankana series, the fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn the two basic Japanese alphabets,

Hiragana and Katakana.

Over the next 25 lessons, you'll go from zero to complete mastery.

Are you ready? Okay, let's begin!

In the first half of this series, you will learn Hiragana.

Every Hiragana character represents a certain sound, but doesn't have meaning by itself.

Using these Hiragana characters, you can

write almost any Japanese word. There are 46 hiragana characters and they are

commonly arranged like this. Look complicated? Don't worry. We'll do one row at a time

and before you know it you'll master them all. Okay, let's start writing.

The first character you will learn is

A.

To write it correctly, pay attention to the stroke order.

One, two, three. When you're starting out, Two Three

When you're starting out, try to make your characters look as close to mine as possible

Keep your lines slightly curved like this.

Good, let's move on.

The second character is Yi.

I is more simple than a.

But there are two things to keep in mind.

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