Let's learn the Japanese alphabets!

This is Hiragana, the alphabet for Japanese words:

the symbols on the far right, under the A are just vowels- a as in father; i, like the "ee" in feed; u, like the "o" in move; e as in fed; and o like in no, but shorter. The symbols under the consonants are letters that contain a consonant *and* vowel. So if you look at the one below the K and in the row of the I on the right, that is said "Ki" like the english word key. And the one just underneath that is said "Ku" like coo. So there you can spell my name! There are a few exceptions to this pattern, like the T-U character is not "Tu" but "Tsu" as in a tsunami wave. The T-I letter is not "Ti" but "Chi" like Tai Chi. The H-U character is not "Hu" but "Fu" like Mt. Fuji. The letters begginning with R are pronounced somewhere between an English R and L. And the last one on it's own "N" is just the consonant, like the n in Ben.

This is Katakana, the alphabet for foriegn words: