Minna if you want to learn Japanese,,For the first time you must learn Hiragana, Katakana, Romaji and Kanji (sebenernya kalo menurut gw yang harus di pelajarin itu cuma tiga (hiragara, katakana, dan kanji) kalo romaji pasti kita dah pada lancar hehehehehehhe ^^)...Before you learn those characters, you must know their definitions....Lets me explain one by one....
1. Hiragana
Hiragana is one of four character sets used in the Japanese language. It represents every sound in the Japanese language.Hiragana is used along with kanji to write all native Japanese words (including words of Chinese origin). Hiragana is used for verb and adjective endings (okurigana), particles, words that have no kanji, words which are commonly written only in kana, words for which the writer does not know the kanji, and as furigana (hints provided by the writer to the reading of an unfamiliar kanji).
Hiragana are used when you can't use kanji, for sound symbolism, particles, help verb, and conjunctions. Hiragana can also be used for adverbs and names for animals and plants. Often you can see them together with a kanji to form a word. Hiragana is used for changing meanings of kanji by adding a hiragana character after the kanji. Hiragana is also used wherever kanji characters wouldn't be used.
(Lebih gampangnya sih hiragana di gunain buat kata kata yang asli dari jepang,,,,,(ini arti versi gw))
The picture below is 46 character of hiragana..... you must remember all of this
Row 1 (a, i, u, e, o)
Row 2 (Ka, Ki, Ku, Ke, Ko)
Row 3 (Sa, Shi, Su, Se, So)
Row 4 (Ta,Chi,Tsu,Te,To)
Row 5 (Na, Ni, Nu, Ne, No)
Row 6 (Ha, Hi, Fu, He, Ho)
Row 7 (Ma, Mi, Mu, Me, Mo)
Row 8 (Ya, Yu, Yo)
Row 9 (Ra,Ri, Ru, Re, Ro)
Row 10 (Wa, Wo)
Row 11 (N or Ng)
minna, in row 1 until row 11 are the main letter of hiragana....so you must remember all of them,,,, now we learn about another hiragana but I won't explain that because as you can see them at picture above....you just adding "tengteng" (
) or "maru" (
) like 
...and the last you just adding the letter ya, yu, yo beside the the main letter (you must write ya,yu,yo smaller then the main letter) like 
.
) or "maru" () like ...and the last you just adding the letter ya, yu, yo beside the the main letter (you must write ya,yu,yo smaller then the main letter) like .
Finish.....I think it is not difficult... so ganbatte minna san...............^^
