What are the types of Japanese alphabets?
Kanji are Chinese characters used for words or ideas like 私 for I or 天気 for weather. Hiragana is phonetics, like a, ka, chi used to write native japanese words that are too difficult to write in Kanji, i would learn this first because that’s what children in Japan learn first, the whole language can be written in it. Katakana is also phonetics like hiragana, but they are used for foreign words and sometimes science and animals. Like Milk – Miruku- ミルク www.learn-japanese.info has kanji, hiragana, and katakana learning sheets and then you can see the difference in the way they look too. Have fun with Japanese!
