Learning Japanese

Your child can read some hiragana, and now katakana is next: another 46 letters that make the very same sounds, but look completely different. Here is how to make that second alphabet feel like a game instead of a wall.

“I’d love to learn Japanese alongside my child.” We hear this from parents often. But can an adult and a child really learn at the same pace?

Your child is curious about Japanese — maybe from anime, karate, or a grandparent in Japan — but you don’t speak a word of it. Where do you even start?