Hiragana and Katakana

The Hiragana and the Katakana are the Japanese's phoenetic alphabet. The Hiragana is used for grammatical constructions and used to substitute for Kanji (when it is very hard or rarely used). The Katakana is used for foreign words that are added to the Japanese vocabulary.

This blog is about writing the Hiragana and the Katakana alphabet. The stroke order and the strokes themselves are very important to be followed and practice is essential to memorization.

From Wikipedia, these are the Hiragana Characters.

From Wikipedia (again), these are the katakana characters

By the way, "wi" and "we" are already obsolete. One more note, the Hiragana "wo" is only used as a particle, there are no words that begin in wo, and I think there are no words that has "wo" in it... so therefore the Katakana "wo" is almost never used...

You can go to the following websites if you want to learn more about hiragana and katakana:

http://japanese.about.com/library/mmore.htm

See ya again for more! Ja!