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Learn to read every hiragana and katakana character, with voiced and combined sounds and long vowels, then real words, signs and menus. For complete beginners to Japanese, with audio where the sound matters.
What sound does this hiragana make?
a
あ opens the chart. It is a pure a, as in “father”. Every row of the chart follows the vowel order a, i, u, e, o.