#til that Japanese has three writing systems: hiragana (phonetic), katakana (phonetic, for foreign loan words), and kanji (semantic). My goal is to learn the first two and some of the third in time fo...
@nprofile1q... Some katakana look somewhat like their hiragana counterparts, but more rectangular, similar to cursive vs block letters in the western alphabet. That helps reduce some of the effort.
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