Hiragana and Katakana: A Side-by-Side Approach, presents a highly innovative learning method to help you effectively and effortlessly learn how to pronounce every single sound in the Japanese language: Each individual Hiragana character and Katakana character is presented in a side-by-side format with space at the bottom of each page to practice handwriting, in order to learn and remember both writing systems at once.Includes Romaji, the Romanized pronunciation underneath each Hiragana and Katakana character to help facilitate memorization.Presents the 46 base Hiragana characters and 46 base Katakana characters. Delves deeper into Hiragana and Katakana by introducing the Hiragana and Katakana characters that have phonetic shifts like: Youon (contracted sounds)Dakuten (marks that indicate the consonant must be voiced) Handakuten (marks that indicate syllables starting with h must be pronounced with p)