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Originally Posted by Eelco
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Well, there are a lot of manga aimed at young children that are written in hiragana only. Those can still be quite entertaining.
The more popular manga are written for teenagers, and are written in kanji, though some feature so called "furigana", which are small hiragana next to the kanji to give the pronunciation.
If you want to learn kanji alone, I recommend www.kanjistep.com or www.kanjisite.com, but remember that knowing all the kanji in the Japanese language won't do you any good without understanding the grammar.
If you want to learn it by yourself "Japanese for Busy People" is a good textbook series. They will teach you grammatical structures while giving useful sentences.
Else of course you could check out my site  , but lessons will be added rather slowly (one every issue, which if you're lucky means one lesson per month). There are three lessons online now, which cover hiragana, and roughly 40-50 kanji I think, plus some very basic grammar. I'd say that you can manage well with my course after 8 lessons. Then you'll have a basic knowledge of Japanese to a point that you'll be able to use it. |
so all the "easy" childeren books are written in hiragana? i'll learn that first then
does anyone know a site that has raw manga written in hiragana? i don't care what it's about, as long as its easy to read
? thnx Eelco for that long reply! I will use your website as my startpage
way better then the shitty msn.com site i'm now using
edit: Eelco how long have you studied japanese?