Learning Japanese from Scratch? You'll Need This – The Odyssey Online

This is a response to 5 Things You Have To Do In Tokyo. If hundreds of Kit Kat flavors (among them is purple sweet potato), restaurants where you don’t have to talk to anyone and rabbit islands aren’t enough of a reason to learn Japanese, I don’t know what is!Jokes aside, if your goal is to pass JLPT N5 (the first level of the Japanese Proficiency Test), you’re surely asking around and trying not to swamp your notes with thousands of links. Been there, done that. It’s safe to say that hoarding is my weak spot, and many of us share that habit. Bearing all this in mind, where should you start? Out of all the existing resources, which ones are beginner-friendly?Hiragana & Katakana Practice Workbook, Coto AcademyYour starting point should be as painless as possible. Hiragana, katakana, and kanji are the three writing systems used in Japanese. I advise you to pick up on Hiragana first. Katakana is next in line.Ideally, you can dedicate around 30 minutes up to an hour of your day to mastering these writing systems – with this workbook, that would be one page per day (around 5-10 new letters, plus six words listed below
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