The Japanese alphabet system: Hiragana like English cursive (curvy) and Katakana like English print (angular). If we combine these two then they together are called Kana.

What's significant about the Japanese alphabet? Kanji are early Chinese characters imported into Japan in the fifth century. Japan, for instance, is written with two characters: 日本 [Nihon ...

But not all romaji is the same. Depending on where you look, you might see “shi” spelled as “shi,” “si” or even something ...

10 revealing facts about Japanese. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in Japanese with audio. Get started with 20 audio phrases and learn how to say a range of ...

One of the biggest surprises thus far from the not-yet-released-but-we-have-it-already-because-a-store-sold-it-to-us-early Japanese version of Zelda: Wind Waker is a special alphabet cooked up by ...

BBC Languages - Learn Japanese in your own time and have fun with A Touch of Japanese. Surprising and revealing facts about the Japanese language, key phrases to get started, details on the ...