Read and Write Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji at JapaneseMEOW!
I find that I’m of the opinion that katakana should be learned first, for a few reasons. First of all, hiragana, in practice, is a supplement to kanji. As such, unless you are reading a book for kindergarten students, you aren’t likely to see whol.
Divide your students into two teams. Draw a big tic-tac-toe grid up on the board. Choose one person of one team to start. Give them a kana or kanji. Get one of the students from one of the teams to come up and write the hiragana. If they write the hiragana correctly, then a person from the same team gets to come up and writes another kana or kanji.
In a way, hiragana is more basic; it's more common, and most of the Japanese vocabulary is more normally written in hiragana than katakana. But starting with katakana could make sense, too! If you're in Japan and barely know any Japanese, knowing katakana will let you recognize at least some words borrowed from English.
Hiragana and Katakana are easy enough that you can power through them. Seriously. Most people who really make the effort can memorize them inside of a week or two. I memorized the bulk of them on my airplane trip to Japan and brushed up on them th.
This is a 'Concentration' style memory game. Choose one card and click on it to reveal a hiragana letter, then turn over another card to try to find the hiragana that forms a matching pair. From the outset, what's most important here is a finely-tuned 'sixth-sense'. After that, it's probably mostly luck.
There are two kinds of kana: hiragana and katakana. The hiragana characters are written in a curving, flowing style. They are used for writing some native Japanese words and word endings. The katakana are more angular characters.
Katakana Writing Practice. Here, we will practice writing some words in Katakana. Plus, you’ll get a little taste of what foreign words sound like in Japanese.. This Katakana writing exercise includes all the irregular sounds that don’t exist in Hiragana. Katakana Writing Exercise 2.