Let’s Read Hiragana

30 November 2008

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While I was at Fanimecon in May 2008, I got the idea to write the script for a manga to teach people to read and write hiragana, one of the Japanese syllabic writing systems. I have started writing the script using Celtx, a media pre-production application that helps you write comic scripts. The script is in its preliminary stages, and if there is interest, I would like to find someone to do the artwork. I am open to the project being either a printed book or a web site.

Downloads

You may download the current version (22 January 2009):

• in the Celtx format
• in OpenOffice.org format (what’s OpenOffice.org?)
• in PDF (Adobe™ Acrobat) format

Please let me know what you think of the script.

Other Similar Projects

• Manga University has a book Kana de Manga. It appears to be very nicely structured, and filled with a lot of good cultural material.

• Let’s Learn Hiragana (ISBN-13: 978-0870117091). This book appears to be heavily educational in its orientation. My script was going to be called Let’s Learn Hiragana, but that would have conflicted with this book’s title.

• There are lots of online games for learning Hiragana. I liked this one. There’s an arcade-style game named Slime Forest Adventure (thanks to Elias for giving me the URL).