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Pages 1-2 Intro and Japanese vowels: https://www.weasyl.com/~guineapigdan/submissions/2502961/peter-s-hiragana-and-katakana-guide-pages-1-2
\nPages 3-4 K, G, S, Z sounds: https://www.weasyl.com/~guineapigdan/submissions/2502971/peter-s-hiragana-and-katakana-guide-pages-3-4
\nPages 5-6 T, D, N and lone N sounds: You are here
\nPages 7-8 H, B, P, M sounds: https://www.weasyl.com/~guineapigdan/submissions/2502977/peter-s-hiragana-and-katakana-guide-pages-7-8
\nPages 9-10 Y and R sounds: https://www.weasyl.com/~guineapigdan/submissions/2502979/peter-s-hiragana-and-katakana-guide-pages-9-10
\nPage 11 W sounds and ending: https://www.weasyl.com/~guineapigdan/submissions/2502980/peter-s-hiragana-and-katakana-guide-page-11

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I highly recommend checking out this comic on Deviant Art, which now lets you post drawings in a slide show presentation! This is the only positive update Deviant Art has made in years. On Furaffinity and Weasyl, I'll have to post these pages grouped together.
\nPages 1-5 https://www.deviantart.com/guineapigdan/art/1208576381
\nPages 6-11 https://www.deviantart.com/guineapigdan/art/1208661045 

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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

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Here are some resources that helped:
\n-Japanese with Yuta explaining why Japanese uses kanji and the downsides of switching to a phonetic alphabet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O27TgLW6pCU
\n-Explanation of the origin of hiragana and katakana that goes into way more detail than I did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u6h5KD2y8s
\n-Explanation of double consonants and long vowel sounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hD3Ow3uGh4
\n-Explanation of the Japanese “N” sound https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-upEPOYBcH8
\n-Explanation of the Japanese “R” sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ3j7PZR8QA
\n-Explanation of the many ways to say “and” in Japanese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BOL3z94bBI
\n-Explanation of Japanese devoicing certain vowels https://selftaughtjapanese.com/2019/03/11/japanese-pronunciation-when-vowels-get-quiet/
\n-A Japanese grammar cheat sheet that explains word order and how particles are used https://8020japanese.com/grammar-cheat-sheet/

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Thanks to these users for proofreading
\nLu123 https://bsky.app/profile/luthealiendog.bsky.social
\nDebesoTanuki https://bsky.app/profile/buffaut.bsky.social
\nDracoSapien https://bsky.app/profile/drachiebellydrag.bsky.social

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Also \"\" Scruff https://bsky.app/profile/scruffkerfluff.bsky.social for sharing the Japanese grammar cheat sheet with me.

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