Hiragana, katakana or kanji? (japanese)?

Hello Sakura, Japanese is usually written in a combination of kanji and hiragana with foreign loan words and specific modern words written in katakana. Ideally you should start learning these straight away as this will significantly aid your learning further down the track, Start with hiragana followed by katakana and then attempt kanji.

How to Start with Learning Japanese

http://how-do-you-learn-japanese.blogspot.com/2012...

Since Japanese language is made up of hiragana, katakana and kanji, you still have to learn all of them. Hiragana is like lower case letters; katakana is like upper case letters; kanji can be prounced by means of hiragana. Therefore, you should learn hiragana first, then katakana, and if possible, try to recognize kanji. Don't push yourself so hard. Just take your time to learn Japanese.

you have to learn all 3. All 3 writing systems are used. katakana and hiragana are pretty easy to learn. Kanji is a bit harder but its still doable ;)

Here are some ways you can learn them:

http://www.japanorama.com/kata_ref.html (katakana chart)

http://www.japanorama.com/hira_ref.html (hiragana chart)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zxuy6eojZY (song to teach pronunciation & symbols of kana)

http://www.learn-japanese.info/ (teaches Japanese...to learn kana & kanji go to writing and scroll down to find charts)

Search on Amazon:

Kana De Manga & Kanji De Manga (they're about $10 each and they're books that make it fun and easy)

all 3 are used

please visit a learning website that will help you

It's best to learn Japanese from a website. Now adays websites are great, they have tons of information, sound files, images that help you learn. Books only teach you polite Japanese, and only the basics so they arn't good if you want to be fluent.

The best free website is;

http://www.123japanese.com/

★★★★★

- Full Japanese lessons

- Polite, Casual and slang

- Kanji & kana

- Video lessons

- Largest vocabulary lists

- + more

Best NON free website (free for 1 week trial only)

http://www.japanesepod101.com/

★★★★

- Audio & video lessons

- Polite and Casual

- Lots of podcasts

- unfortunately not free, you only get 1 week free trial (but just keep signing up with fake email)

These two websites I think are the best if you want the MOST information. Theres a lot of learing websites out there, but these ones above have the exact same content plus more.