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Lesson 2: Learning the First 5 Characters of the hiragana.

The first Japanese characters we will learn are the VOWELS; these are the Vowels that I Mentioned Earlier in Lesson 1.

Remember how they are pronounced.

A: あ

I: い

U: う

E: え

O: お



Please memorize these correctly, and please practice writing them.

Here is how I am going to Incorporate the Japanese characters in the words that we will be learning.
I am going to continue writing the Japanese in English but as new characters come up, I will be replacing the vowel/consonant with the newly introduced Hiragana character.
This may be confusing but you will understand later in future lessons.
Note: when there is a double character in this instance いいえ, one just stretches the sound, so since い, is the “I” vowel, you stretch the sound ee, to do iie- (EE-EH)

あい- Blue, Love

いいえ- No

いえ- House

え- Picture

おい- Hey