むずかしいしゅくだい。。。
猫は、私の手があるので、しゅくだいとべんきょうは、むずかしいんです。。。
Hiragana Chart ひらがな
I had the advantage when I came to learning Japanese that I had learned another language with a non-roman script before, although that was a long time ago in high school. I learned Classical Greek which used the Greek alphabet. It was in high school, so I had the support of school language classes to do it, rather than working on my own. It enforced discipline and practice. It was also very different in that it was an alphabet, rather than a syllabary. Japanese is very different in that style - each symbol is a sound. When I learned to read in England, we learned the letters in alphabetical order, and had pictures of things that began with that letter, such as “a is for apple, b is for bee, c is for cat”. That last one in particular really does not help - if you try reading it out loud, you will notice that you have just said “see is for cat”, which is a hard c or k sound. Makes things much harder for children to grasp. This...
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