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The Hikari Kana Starter Pack

Fifteen characters, done properly. Pronunciation you can hear in your head, tracing pages that expect real handwriting, a mini reading quiz with the answers, and a tracker so you can see it working. Enough to finish your first three rows of hiragana and find out whether this way of studying suits you.

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15 CHARACTERSTRACING & HANDWRITINGMINI READING QUIZPROGRESS TRACKERPDF · A4 & LETTER

What is in it

15 Characters, in rows. , and — the first three rows of the chart, each with its stroke count, its sound in plain English, and an everyday word you can picture.
5 Vowels, pronounced properly. The pronunciation key that makes the rest of the chart arithmetic, including the even-beat habit that fixes most beginner accents.
3× Trace, then write, then read. Grey guide characters to trace, blank boxes to write from memory, and a short reading quiz with no romaji — with the answers on the last page.

It is a genuine slice of the Kana Workbook rather than a sample page: the same layout, the same practice sequence, the same standard. If it is not for you, you have lost nothing and learned fifteen characters.

WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

Pages from the pack

Hiragana vowel page showing あ い う え お with stroke counts, sounds and example words
Character pages
Hiragana tracing worksheet with grey guide characters and empty practice boxes
Tracing pages
Hiragana reading practice page with real Japanese words and no romaji
Mini reading quiz
Kana progress tracker with read, write and vocabulary checkboxes
Progress tracker
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WHAT ARRIVES AFTER

Five emails, then it stops

No drip campaign that never ends. Five short emails that are worth reading on their own, and an unsubscribe link on every one of them.

  1. Your starter pack — the download, and the one thing to do first.
  2. How to learn kana so it stays — the study order that finishes the chart, and why rows beat alphabetical.
  3. The mistakes that cost the most time — romaji, look-alike pairs, small characters and long vowels.
  4. A mini kana challenge — a short reading test you can do in five minutes.
  5. The full workbook — an honest description of what the $9 book adds, and no hard feelings if it is not for you.
QUESTIONS

Before you enter your email

Is it really free?
Yes. The Kana Starter Pack costs nothing. It is delivered through our store, so you enter an email address and the download link arrives there straight away.
What do you do with my email address?
You get the download, then a short course of five emails about learning kana — how to study it, the mistakes that cost the most time, a mini challenge, and at the end an honest description of the full workbook. Every email has an unsubscribe link and one click ends it. No selling your address on, ever.
How is this different from the $9 workbook?
The starter pack is 15 characters — the first three rows of hiragana. The full workbook is all 92 characters across both scripts, with voiced forms, combinations, the look-alike pairs, tracing and free-writing pages for every character, word worksheets, reading drills with no romaji, chart tests and a two-page answer key. The starter pack is a real slice of it, not a teaser.
What format is it?
A PDF laid out for A4 and US Letter. Print it, or write on it directly in any tablet annotation app.
Do I need to know any Japanese first?
None at all. It starts at zero and assumes you have never seen a kana character before.
Can I just print something without giving my email?
Yes — the tracing sheets on the hiragana and katakana worksheet pages print straight from the browser with no sign-up.
Get the free Kana Starter Pack Questions first? info@hikarii.net

Start reading in the meantime

Hiragana chart and guideThe full chart, the voiced forms, and the order to learn them in.Katakana chart and guideThe second script, and the look-alike pairs that trip everyone.Print a sheet right nowA hiragana tracing sheet that needs no email address at all.Kana: the full guideHow the three Japanese scripts fit together, and what to learn first.
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All 92 characters across both scripts. Every voiced form, every combination, every look-alike pair untangled. Stroke order, tracing pages, handwriting grids, reading drills with no romaji, and a full answer key.

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