There are three writing systems that the Japanese use: hiragana, katakana, and kanji. In this class, students will continue to learn the hiragana system. Children in Japan learn first to read hiragana and use that as a building block to learn more advanced characters. By learning hiragana, one opens the door to a wealth of material. The hiragana characters are known as syllabaries and are different from the letters we use in the English alphabet. If one knows all the hiragana syllabaries in a...