Alphabet
"The longest journey begins with a single step. "
(千里の道も一歩から。)
"学習" では外国の方向けのイントロにしております（簡単な英文ですので、英語の読解にどうぞ）。 ここは５０音・ローマ字の説明です。 外国の方から日本語について質問されたときは、全角文字ひらがな漢字ではなく「半角英数字のローマ字」でお願いします。
When you read a Japanese document, probably you will find letters like below [tab. 2 - 1,2,3] in it.
These are 2bytes hi-ra-ga-na.
2bytes hi-ra-ga-na make it easier for Japanese people to read,
because sentences written in 2bytes, say
"
", costs less letters than
sentences written in 1byte,
"ko-nn-ni-chi-wa", as you see.
1byte hi-ra-ga-na may be called "Roman Japanese"
in order to distinguish from 2bytes hi-ra-ga-na.
But you need not to use 2bytes hi-ra-ga-na. Most of Japanese people who use computers can write roman Japanese. So they will talk to you in roman Japanese, if you ask them.
