Sinau

Learn hiragana and katakana from zero

Hiragana and katakana are the basic Japanese scripts. The JLPT and JFT-Basic are written in them, with no romaji, so reading them is the first step.

This path has 14 units and 151 hiragana and katakana characters: the 46 basic characters of each script, the voicing marks and the small kana, with audio for every character. Its drills have you read real N5 words as soon as you know their letters.

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Units of Hiragana & Katakana

  1. Unit 1: Hiragana: the vowels (5 letters)
  2. Unit 2: Hiragana: k and s (10 letters)
  3. Unit 3: Hiragana: t and n (10 letters)
  4. Unit 4: Hiragana: h and m (10 letters)
  5. Unit 5: Hiragana: y, r, w and n (11 letters)
  6. Unit 6: Hiragana: the marks ゛ and ゜ (25 letters)
  7. Unit 7: Hiragana: small kana (4 letters)
  8. Unit 8: Katakana: the vowels (5 letters)
  9. Unit 9: Katakana: k and s (10 letters)
  10. Unit 10: Katakana: t and n (10 letters)
  11. Unit 11: Katakana: h and m (10 letters)
  12. Unit 12: Katakana: y, r, w and n (11 letters)
  13. Unit 13: Katakana: the marks ゛ and ゜ (25 letters)
  14. Unit 14: Katakana: small kana (5 letters)