Japanese Hiragana and Katakana Flash Cards Kit

I’m 60 years old (yeah I can’t believe it either) and am taking a non-credit Japanese language class. Leaning kana seemed daunting but I learned them all with these cards. Here’s how I did it: 1. Kicked back, got comfy 2. Grabbed the first 6 hiragana cards 3. Memorized the 6 cards then shuffled them to make sure I actually learned them 4. Set them aside, grabbed the next 6, repeated step 3 5. Shuffled together all the cards I’d learned and reviewed them 6. After passing my review 100% I got the next 6 cards and repeated steps 3, 5, and 6 (this step) 7. Kept at it until I got through them all 8. Reviewed cards daily, even when I didn’t take time to learn new kana. Reviewing what I’d already learned was the least I’d do daily. It seemed like it took no time at all to get through all the cards. I bought extra binder rings to keep cards organized out of the box. Here’s what I like about these cards (almost as much as I like bulleted lists!): * No romaji on front. I bought Dr. Moku’s flash cards at the same time as these and haven’t really touched them. * The mnemonics work. Some seemed odd or hard to picture at first but they actually stuck in my head. A few of my own came immediately to mind so of course I went with those. * The posters are useful. Every once in a while I get a couple of characters mixed up (i/ri and re/wa I’m looking at you!) and looking at the posters is easier than looking through piles of shuffled cards. * They’re flash cards. I am easily distracted so flash cards on a device would not work for me. Devices are kept well away from my comfy flash card spot. That being said I also use Duolingo. The gamification is good enough to keep my attention, however, I would not recommend using Duolingo to learn kana. It takes forever to get through them all. I mean, not literally forever but since I haven’t finished them I don’t know how long it will take. Seriously, it’s a slog. These cards are the sauce. Buy them. Side note: I’ve downloaded the audio but haven’t used it since my class is taught by a native speaker. Side note 2: I work full time, have 3 cats, and play way too many video games. I’m talking PC video games, not Candy Crush, so don’t sass me or I’ll have to chase you young punks off my lawn! 🙃 My point is if I can somehow do it, so can you!

This is a great set. My daughter used it in high school and still refers to it as she progresses in her language learning. I just ordered a 2nd set for my son to take to college with him. It is well worth the price. I believe there may be an updated version but we are happy with the older version.

Ok girlfriend, I bought this set along with kanji volume 1 & 2. Will the CD’s work or be helpful I don’t know but I probably won’t even attempt to use them so the world may never know. Is a card missing, is stuff incorrect on the cards... well I’m to lazy right now to glance threw 200 cards for this set let alone the others to find out. I am the classic Amazon shopper tho & saw what I liked looked at the pictures & read some reviews then bought it after it sat in the cart for way to long but I am glade I bought this set. Not only do you get 200 cards plus the CD but you also get the two posters, one for hiragana & one for katakana. They have a good picture example to help you remember plus a good example of how to prounance along with the correct way to write, this is also included on the cards. The cards themselves are a little thicker then paper & could survive a few second fight against spilled water etc but they’ll get damaged eventually. The biggest thing here tho is the price & the person who buys these. You can have way to many FREE apps or apps for 1.99 or more with all this on it... but they are apps... apps on your device... your device that’s only good to be used for social media.. your device that you turn to for constant scrolling when bored... sooooooo unless you’ll use the apps & stick to them these are a must buy. Main thing with these tho if your a beginner & wanting to learn & buying these I’d say use the posters first, & the CD if it’s got good pronunciation audio & get the writing pronunciation & hirigana & katakana memorized before turning to the cards given everything on the cards will be to distracting & overwhelming verse focusing on the basics & learning the basics, just know sometimes audio pronunciation is done by actual Japanese & then sometimes by English speakers who pronounce a bit off plus the difference between male & female along with adult & child well it’s noticable but who prounounces in this CD.... the world may never know. All in all If your interested in this I’d say buy it given it’s a hands on solid way to help you learn but stay audio about it given voice wise their is always a difference in the sound, way & form pronuncing changes from product to product. Toodalo!

The cards are fantastic as far as content. However, the cards are poor quality. One drop of water and they will be messed up. I would have preferred that they were laminated.

The flash cards, as well as the supplemental posters and audio CD have been incredibly beneficial to my teenage son as he learns Japanese. Each flash card has a Japanese character on the front, along with a few words in either Hiragana or Katakana in very small print. The backs of the cards have the phonetic spelling of the Japanese character in English, and in many cases, a helpful visual way to remember the character. The visual cues seemed odd to us at first, but they sure do work. Just from helping my son learn the characters, I've picked them all up quickly as well. On the front of the flash cards in very small print there are also a few words in either Hiragana or Katakana (using the main character from that flash card, plus other characters). On the backs of the flash cards, the words are spelled out phonetically, and each includes its English translation. A couple of the cards have typos (not of the main Japanese character on the card -- just of the translations for the supplemental words). They don't detract from the cards, however. The fact that my son and I picked up on the typos right away are a nod to how quickly we've picked up Hirigana and Katakana using the flash cards. As an added bonus, this set comes with two posters, one with all of the Hirigana characters and the other with Katakana. I put them up in my son's room next to his desk in two inexpensive poster frames. He's found these very useful and refers to them often. Hope this review helps you.

Nice small flash cards on a metal ring with the character on one side and the phonetic pronunciation on the other side. Great for working on hiragana and katakana (yes, both of them) by yourself. Not only does this include the basic characters, but all the additional katakana and hiragana characters- not many flash cards have all 200+ characters. Only downsides is that the cards are fairly flimsy, but would be a huge stack of cards if they weren't this thin. Also, the characters on the card are the handwritten characters, which differ a little from the printed characters you usually see. But thats a small complaint

I've been learning on Duolingo for almost 3 months and although the program is fun and helpful, the Hiragana symbols made no sense to me. The "mnemonics" that are used here are a bit of a stretch, but do help me to remember the sounds. It was a real epiphany to see the symbols presented in sort of a Periodic Table format, so all of the vowel (like "ah") sounds were in a column and the beginning consonants were in rows. and then I could see the connection with the basic 46 and the others that have what look like crooked quotation marks and tiny circles tie in to the basics. I now feel that I will eventually be able to sound out the characters (with practice). Learning what the word MEANS is a whole other matter....

I'm just starting to learn Japanese, and I'm probably taking an atypical approach to how its done, but one thing that I think is pretty standard with learning any language is getting some flash cards set up so that its pretty easy to learn to recognize the characters. I first tried to do this cheaply by having a Japanese friend write them out for me, but... his handwriting was atrocious! So, I ended up buying this set of cards. Overall, it's ok. I mean, they get the job done. It's just that I wish there was a little more attention to the finer details to the cards that would make this actually get a higher rating from me. For example... The card quality is pretty low. If you went and bought your standard index cards at your local store, they would be of a higher quality. These things are pretty thin, with a nice gloss that makes them look pretty high end, but with a moderate amount of usage, which, I would assume is the whole point of these cards, they start to fall apart pretty quickly. I'm pretty extra careful with them, and over the course of a few weeks of gentle shuffling, some of the cards have started to fall apart. So... be forewarned that, at least in my case, these cards have held up less than I would have expected, and in all honesty, if I had to do it all over again, I probably would have just bought my own index cards and written them out myself since my hand writing isn't all that bad. Second on my list of things that I don't like about the cards... so like I've said, I'm using what may be an atypical approach to learning Japanese, but, across the various books (Kana from Zero, Japanese from Zero), to programs (Human Japanese) and even video games (Learn Japanese to Survive), they've all been ordered and numbered the exact same way except in this set where the dakuten characters are not the next in the series (e.g. instead of s to z, they continue with the next set that doesn't include the dakuten). This is pretty annoying. I don't know why they chose to do it this way, but like I've said, across countless books and programs with no relations, this set is the only one where they order the set differently from all the others. Thirdly, and its pretty mild, has to do with the fact they only include one metal ring for the card set. This set contains both hiragana and katakana, and it would be super nice to be able to have a ring of each for practice. Personally, my hiragana is getting pretty good! But I need to work on my katakana a bit, so having two rings would make it easier to add/remove cards from a "I know what this is" to a "I still need to work on recognizing this one" kind of set up. If you don't want to write out your own cards, it will do the trick for you. But... you could do it a lot cheaper just making your own.

I bought this for my daughter. She is learning Japanese at school. I studied Japanese when I lived in Japan. It is a really good resource and like all things language related, you get back what you put in to it. It has been really helpful for my daughter so far for drilling reading character recognition. Kanji is going to be a whole other world of pain.

Possitif : - J'ai déjà toute la collection en version chinois (4 volumes), j'ai acheté cette version en japonais pour ma soeur, et comme les autres, il est excellent ! C'est clairement les meilleurs flashcards qu'on peut trouver, ils ont bien plus de détails que les autres : on apprends pas seulement les kanas, l'ordre d'écriture des traits, leur prononciations, mais il y a aussi du vocabulaires qu'on peut apprendre facilement qui inclus le kana en question. Je recommande à 100% celui-ci et les version Kanjis, autant que les version pour le chinois. Défaut / neutre : - Le seul bémol serait que c'est en anglais, mais ce n'est pas dérangeant. Au pire, on peut apprendre le vocabulaires japonais tout en apprennant du vocabulaires en anglais ! - Les cartes sont aussi assez fine, mais c'est pas plus mal si on accumule des centaines ou milliers avec le caractères chinois, ça prends moins d'espace pour ranger les cartes et en faisant attention, elles ne s'abîme pas. Sinon je pense qu'on peut trouver des classeurs de cartes. - Le défaut que m'a fait par ma soeur c'est qu'il n'y a pas de couleur qui sépare les hiraganas aux katakana, mais selon moi ce n'est pas plus mal non plus d'apprendre à les reconnaître sans indices du syllabaire, sinon on peut nous même rajouter des bordure avec un stylo de couleur qui ne bave pas aux traits des caractères comme un effets ombre très sympa, ça fait très bien l'affaire !

missing katakana cards and duplicate hiragana cards

Muito Bom

The hiragana and katakana charts that come with it are well worth the price, the cards are fantastic and useful tool for any one trying to learn hiragana and katakana. I am so much enjoying learning japanese and getting to know japanese culture and traditions via books and videos. ありがとう