AND so begins your journey! Be sure to write each character many times

HOW TO WRITE IT
[Follow the red strokes from left to right]

ROMAJI - a
SOUND
- [as in fAther] 11 k wav


MEMORY: it looks like a cross with a sideways #9.  "Ah... number 9"


EXAMPLES: How do you say it?
- Ah!

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Japanese has 5 vowel sounds (a, i, u, e, o) which are used to make the rest of the Hiragana

1 a i u e o R 2 ka ki ku ke ko R 3 sa shi su se so R 4 ta chi tsu te to R 5 na ni nu ne no R
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ha hi fu he ho R 7 ma mi mu me mo R 8 ya yu yo R 9 ra ri ru re ro R 10 wa n R 11 combo 12 last