There are three types of Japanese scriptkatakana hiragana and kanji. It is possible to read Japanese knowing only a limited number of kanji but it is not possible with only a limited number of katakana or hiraganaone must know all of them. Lets Learn Hiragana and its companion volume Lets Learn Katakana is a textbook that introduces the learner to the basics of one of these fundamental Japanese scripts. Being a workbook it contains all the exercises that allow the student to master hiragana by