Japanese Language and Syllabaries

Hiragana, Katakana and Romanji

The japanese language

Here you find a small summary of the devellopment of Japanese writing and its present form. Find out more about the use of the different alphabets, their origin and the limits of spoken Japanese.

Train japanese syllables

A friend asked me some years ago to help her memorise all those syllabaries from the hiragana and katakana alphabet.
Thus I made a tool that just did that. For a given syllable it lets you choose the romanji or vice versa. It is still online and if you want to try it, so please go there: Hiragana and Katakana trainer.

Learn how to write japanese

This is an advanced project to provide an easy to use solution that does combine leaning the syllable and writing it down, all just here in your browser.

Vocabulary

You know your basic on how to write? Want to learn more? Go here and get introduced to Japanese through several levels of vocabulary training.