Japanese sentence structure

Japanese is a subject-object-verb language (SOV).

Sally chocolate ate.

Sally is the subject, chocolate is the object, and ate is the verb.

Kanji kun’yomi reading

The kanji kun'yomi reading is the Japanese reading that closely approximates the meaning of the Chinese character; a Japanese equivalent word to that meaning would get associated with that character. As with on'yomi, there can be multiple kun'yomi readings for the same kanji. Some kanji may have no kun'yomi readings.

Kanji on’yomi reading

The kanji on’yomi reading is the Chinese reading of the character; the original sounds they make in the Chinese language at the time the character was introduced. The sound is also based on the area it was imported from. Since Japanese and Chinese languages have different sounds, the sounds that Japan gave to these characters are a close approximation of the original Chinese pronunciation. Some kanji were introduced from different parts of China at different times, and they have multiple on'yomi readings. They many also have different meanings. Almost all of the kanji characters have on'yomi readings except for most of the kanji that were developed in Japan.

Nouns in Japanese

Nouns in Japanese do not have any grammatical gender.

Japanese language spacing

The Japanese language does not have spaces between words.

Learning Japanese language

The best learn order for learning the Japanese language is: hiragana, katakana, and then kanji. Romaji is also sometimes used at first for non-speakers of the language.

Dakuten and handakuten

Dakuten ゛ (also called ten-ten ("dot dot") and handakuten ゜ (also called maru ("circle") are two signs that are used in the Japanese kana syllabaries hiragana and katakana to change the sounds of some of the characters. They are written after the character. Ten-ten is used more than maru.
An example is the katakana character ハ ha.
It becomes バ ba with ten-ten added. It becomes パ pa with maru added.

Romaji

Using the Latin script alphabet to write Japanese is called romaji in Japan. Romaji is used for non Japanese speakers who can't read kanji or the kana scripts hiragana and katakana. It is used in dictionaries and textbooks and other places. It is also used to input text into computers.

Kanji

Kanji are adopted logographic (logograms are visual symbols that represent a part of a word or whole word) Chinese characters which are used in the Japanese language along with hiragana and katakana. Several thousand kanji are in regular use in Japan.

Japanese language scripts

The Japanese language uses two syllabic scripts; hiragana and katakana. These are known as kana and are modified Chinese characters. Kanji is also used. Kanji are adopted logographic Chinese characters. Several thousand kanji are in regular use in Japan. The Latin script alphabet is also used. Using the Latin script alphabet to write Japanese is called romaji in Japan. Romaji is used for non-Japanese speakers who can't read kanji or the kana scripts hiragana and katakana. It is used in dictionaries and textbooks and other places. It is also used to input text into computers.

Hiragana and katakana

The hiragana script is more curvy, the katakana script is more angular.