Japanese Lesson 1 : The Alphabet

So moving away from the technical side, let's move to language.
I've been more interested to learn about the japanese language so I took some classes and it all went well. However, the best way to learn it is through practice. With this Idea, I decided to write it all out so that anyone wishing to learn this can learn with me!

Now, let's take this 1 step at a time. First you've got to learn the alphabet.
Japanese (Nihongo) has 3 alphabets apart from romaji which is the romanized equivalent (the one you're reading now).

1. Hiragana - used for native words
For example: watashi(I) わたし , mizu(water) みず

2. Katakana - used for foreign/loan words
For example: ko-hi(coffee) コーヒ , orange(orenji)オレンジ

3. Kanji - adopted chinese characters used for simplified writing
For example: aka(red) 赤

Apart from this 3 alphabets, you can also consider their numbers and way of counting as a different alphabet which we'll term as the counting alphabet. We'll discuss this on lesson 2.

Now what we need to do is to remember the hiragana and katakana characters. Move on to our next lesson!