Presenting Japanese

Well, the first thing you have to know about Japanese is that it's not a simple language at all. It works differently from any other language you may know. It's complex and demands so much time to proper master it. So, if you are looking for a tongue that you could learn rapidly, please don't choose Japanese. Instead, go learn Spanish or Italian.

So, knowing that, you are able to learn some basic things about this language. The first one is that Japanese uses 3 different alphabets, that are used mixed in daily speech. They are:

* Hiragana: the most simple alphabet of the language. It consists of 46 characters, that includes all the natural Japanese sounds (there are more, possible with katakana, that I will explain later in this post). The symbols are:

I will later (in another post) explain a simple way to learn all these symbols (believe me, it's easy).

* Katakana: another alphabet, that usually represents foreigner words. 

* Kanji: this, besides grammar, is what makes Japanese a hard language to learn. Kanji, as I said in my previous post, is a set of Chinese characters that were exported to Japan. They are hard to write and memorize their pronounces (for instance, there are many pronounces for a same kanji).