Who, what, where, when, why and how?

These are the common questions we hear every day in any language.

• だれ - Who?
• なに or なん - What?
• どこ - Where?
• いつ - When?
• なんで - Why?
• どう - How?

Remembering in Japanese the words will not be pronounced as one unit, but rather as separate syllables. E.g - だれ (Dare), will not be pronounced as in the English ‘I didn’t dare‘ but will be pronounced as ‘da’ ‘re’. Remembering how Japanese ‘R’ is pronounced.

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Ok, so below is the complete (basic) Hiragana table. You can use this basic structure to put together a lot of basic sentenses and words.

あ a 	い i 	う u 	え e 	お o

か ka 	き ki 	く ku 	け ke 	こ ko

さ sa 	し shi 	す su 	せ se 	そ so

た ta 	ち chi 	つ tsu 	て te 	と to

な na 	に ni 	ぬ nu 	ね ne 	の no

は ha 	ひ hi 	ふ fu 	へ he 	ほ ho

ま ma 	み mi 	む mu 	め me 	も mo

や ya 		ゆ yu 		よ yo

ら ra 	り ri 	る ru 	れ re 	ろ ro

わ wa 	 		 	 を wo

ん n

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I have finally figured out how to display Japanese characters on this site! After lots of hours of tweaking and adjusting whilst trying not to completely destroy the site, I think I have made it possible!

This can only mean one thing

I will be ‘learning Japanese’ and using this site as my exercise book to make all my notes and track what I am getting up to. The reason I say ‘learning Japanese’ is because I am not going to dive in and be all intense (just yet), so I will be learning at my own pace. So quite possibly slower than you if you were learning a language.

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