Talk:Japanese/Kana/Lessons/Hiragana/Lesson 1

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I just wanted to say... This is a great page!!! I already know the kana, but it helped me remember the proportions of every letter and the correct way to write them. The Mnemonics are great!! Havent seen alot of good Japanese guide pages like this on the net =)

Obake 15:56, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Very good lesson - please provide more!
I'm a beginner at Japanese and I'd like to learn the entire Hiragana. At first I thought it was going to be an impossible task because of my bad memory for shapes, but this lesson made it really simple. Please create lessons for the rest of the Hiragana too!! Junesun 19:21, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, I just saw that on "Kana Lessons" there are more. However, this first lessson should link to the rest, and so should the overview page where I only saw lesson 1!

English-equivalent "Sounds-Like"'s
The then-current version did not actually say HOW to pronounce the vowels, so I added some allegories. Could use more polish. - 116.71.38.86 (talk)

Suggestion
Throughout this section, the links to the next lesson contain the Japanese text, along with arrows (such as On to Lesson 2 - かきくけこ>>). I would like to suggest removing the arrows (or at least separating them with a space from the other text) so that beginners don't mistake them for Japanese characters. Νεοπτόλεμος 01:17, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Pronunciation guides, without country-specific bias?
The first example says it's pronounced like 'a as in alright', but based on which country's English though? The 'a' in 'alright' sounds like 'ah' for North Americans and 'aww' for Brits and Australians. I suppose the example given is the American version, but as not all the readers of this will be American could there be more general examples given please.