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Learn to Read Hiragana and Katakana
by Joel R. Voss aka. Javantea

March 3, 2006
Learning to read Hiragana and Katakana is easy and opens a large amount of manga and websites up to the casual reader. It's important to learn these two to read Japanese because although there is a direct translation between each and Romanji, it won't be given anywhere. It's up to you to learn this table. It should only take a short while.
A good idea to memorize these is to write them down a bunch of times. Not only will this teach you to remember them, but it will also teach you to write them, which is not the same thing as remembering them.
Hiragana
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| しゃ | sha |
| し | shi |
| しゅ | shu |
| しぇ | she |
| しょ | sho |
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| つぁ | tsa |
| って | tte |
| つぇ | tse |
| つぉ | tso |
| っつ | ttsu |
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| でゃ | dya |
| でぃ | di |
| でゅ | dyu |
| でぇ | dye |
| でょ | dyo |
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| ちゃ | cha |
| ち | chi |
| ちゅ | chu |
| ちぇ | che |
| ちょ | cho |
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| ぢゃ | dza |
| ぢ | dzi |
| ぢゅ | dju |
| ぢぇ | dze |
| ぢょ | dzo |
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Katakana
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| ッチャ | tcha |
| ッチ | tchi |
| ッチュ | tchu |
| ッチェ | tche |
| ッチョ | tcho |
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| ツァ | tsa |
| ッテ | tte |
| ツェ | tse |
| ツォ | tso |
| ッツ | ttsu |
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| デャ | dya |
| ディ | di |
| デュ | dyu |
| デェ | dye |
| デョ | dyo |
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