In this first lesson of pronunciation, you will learn to pronounce the first fifteen characters in Hiragana, and learn fifteen words at the same time.
Each character is read together with an example. Start listening, and follow the table from left to right, one row at a time.
あ
い
う
え
お
あめ
いちご
うみ
えんぴつ
おりがみ
a / ame
i / ichigo
u / umi
e / enpitsu
o / origami
Candy
Strawberry
Sea
Pencil
Origami
か
き
く
け
こ
からおけ *
きのこ
くま
けむり
こあら *
ka / karaoke
ki / kinoko
ku / kuma
ke / kemuri
ko / koala
Karaoke
Mushroom
Bear
Smoke
Koala
さ
し
す
せ
そ
さくら
しまうま
すいか
せかい
そば
sa / sakura
shi / shimauma
su / suika
se / sekai
so / soba
Cherry tree
Zebra
Water melon
World
Soba Noodles
* Please note that the words marked with * are usually written in katakana. We just used hiragana for consistency.
Origami is the traditional Japanese art of paper-folding. You may have seen a paper crane made of folded paper. That is origami. Soba is a type of Japanese noodles. Oishii yo!
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