In order to get the most out of this companion text you must be familiar with hiragana and katakana. If you don’t already know hiragana, please consider purchasing our set of “Kana Flashcards” along with this product. Combined, there are about 46 kana characters in the Japanese language. If you learn 5 to 10 hiragana and katakana per day, you can learn all the kana in as little as a week.

We highly recommend purchasing The Complete Set (Minna no Nihongo Shokyu 2 Honsatsu, Translation & Grammatical Notes) which includes all the necessary set of tools to most efficiently learn Japanese.