Read any word written in hiragana or katakana correctly on the first try: signs, menus, station names, including the voiced, combined and lengthened sounds beginners misread. For absolute beginners, with no kanji, grammar or vocabulary assumed. All ninety-two characters of both scripts, every voiced and combined form, and the two sound rules a bare chart never teaches, the small tsu and long vowels, drilled against real signs and menus.