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No, i'm not gonna ask you for tutorials, websites, books.

I've already started learning Japanese, i know a few words and can type them
(well, the Japanese driver just puts the Japanese characters there when i type
latin letters). However, i hear some different opinions about what to learn
first/how to learn.

One site teaches romaji first, so Japanese words written in latin letters.
However, others say, thats really bad and teach a few hiragana first before
getting to some basic words. Another learning resource expects me to learn all
hiragana, then all katakana, before i even start to learn some words.

So the question(s):

What do i learn first? Should i try to learn **all** Hiragana first? Do i need
to learn Katakana right after or is it possible to write simple sentences with
only Hiragana?

So, as i said, i do not ask for resources, just for some guidelines, what i
definitely need to learn before i can get really into it.

(A line about romaji would be great, i've heard that there _is no_ romaji in
Japanese, thats just invented for non-japanese people for learning(?)
purposes)
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katakana learning hiragana rōmaji
Learning, where to start?
You should first learn hiragana and then slowly learn kanji and katakana.
There's no romaji in Japanese and katakana is only used for foreign words so
it's not as important as hiragana and kanji.
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