About Japanese language - introduction

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Fråga		Svar
The Japanese writing system börja lära sig		The Japanese writing system uses three alphabets: kanji, hiragana and katakana
What are kanji? börja lära sig		Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters. Each kanji means a word.
What are katakana? börja lära sig		Katakana, like hiragana, are a syllabary. Katakana is mostly used for foreign words, plant and animal names.
What are hiragana? börja lära sig		Hiragana are used for words that cannot be represented in Kanji.
How many people speak Japanese? börja lära sig		Japanese language is spoken by 128 million speakers.
What should I learn first? börja lära sig		We recommend you to start with katakana and hiragana alphabets. Within the next two lessons you will learn its pronunciation and writing.
What's the next step? börja lära sig		We recommend you to learn vocabulary with examples, before you learn grammar rules. Once you get the context it should be much easier to learn grammar.