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Moving to Japan-Japanese Language 2008/5/15 00:40
I will be studying either Rosetta Stone or Rocket Japanese. What really is the difference between Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana, and what should I study the majority of? The Japanese words you see written in English, i.e., Sayonara, Hirajaku, Kobe, etc., what Japanese dialect is that called?
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writing Japanese 2008/5/15 13:49
You will need to learn all 3 of hiragana, katakana and kanji in order to read Japanese. People usually learn the hiragana first, then katakana, then kanji. If you look on Wikipedia you will find good explanations of the uses of all three systems.

Roman letters (which we use to write English) are called "roma-ji" in Japanese. "Dialect" means a regional variation of a language, so roma-ji isn't a dialect, it's just a writing system.
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