Peter's Hiragana and Katakana guide, Part 1/2

PART 2 WITH PAGES 6-11 CAN BE SEEN HERE!

Part 1 of this comic covers:

-What are hiragana and katakana?

-Japanese vowels

-K and G sounds and dakuten

-S, shi, Z, and ji sounds

-T, D, chi, ji, tsu, zu and the sokuon

Deviant Art now allows uploading slide shows of art! One of the few improvements to the site that have been made! However you can only upload 10 maximum unless you have premium membership, so I'll upload the first five pages here and then the next six pages will be posted next. Make sure to click the thumbnails below to scroll between the pages. I've streamed the making of this comic for the past couple weeks on Twitch, and I'm glad that I finally completed it! This comic is adapted from my own notes I took teaching myself hiragana and katakana. Just to note, as of this posting I have not taken any Japanese lessons, so that's why I call this an amateur's guide. Check out my Twitch and you can see me stream the drawing of this comic! These video segments will be reposted to you tube later. https://www.twitch.tv/guineapigdan

Here are some resources that helped:

-Japanese with Yuta explaining why Japanese uses kanji and the downsides of switching to a phonetic alphabet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O27TgLW6pCU

-Explanation of the origin of hiragana and katakana that goes into way more detail than I did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u6h5KD2y8s

-Explanation of double consonants and long vowel sounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hD3Ow3uGh4

-Explanation of the Japanese “N” sound https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-upEPOYBcH8

-Explanation of the Japanese “R” sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ3j7PZR8QA

-Explanation of the many ways to say “and” in Japanese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BOL3z94bBI

-Explanation of Japanese devoicing certain vowels https://selftaughtjapanese.com/2019/03/11/japanese-pronunciation-when-vowels-get-quiet/

-A Japanese grammar cheat sheet that explains word order and how particles are used https://8020japanese.com/grammar-cheat-sheet/

Thanks to Lu123, DebesoTanuki, and Drachenzie for their proofreading. And thanks to ScruffKerFluff for sharing the Japanese grammar cheat sheet with me.