Put simply practice is the most effective method of mastering written Japanese. The large open format of Writing Japanese Hiragana invites the student to pick up a pencil and get started Two phonetic syllabaries hiragana and katakana and a set of kanji characters based on Chinese ideographs are what comprises written Japanese. This workbook has been carefully designed to facilitate the quick and easy mastery of the fortysix character hiragana syllabary used to write all types of native words no