As a beginner which of these alphabets do you recommend I start learning first....not sure I could handle both in these early days..???
Hiragana or Katakana
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September 28, 2007
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September 28, 2007
katakana is only for borrowed words...so once you have learned hiragana
the katakana characters all look kind of like each other..so it is so much easier..
definitlely start learning hiragana.
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