pre im currently working here in japan and still studying nihongo,medyo mahirap sya considering baliktad yun sentence structure nila specfically the subject and verb agreement,tapos the vowels are arranged as A-I-U-E-O, tungkol naman sa writing and reading ang ituturo lang sayo pag nagaaral is katakana and hiragana kase napakahirap ng kanji, buti n nga lng meron ng romanized letter sa train stations ngayon e,mas madali ang katakana and hiragana you can easily write and construct sentences kse derived sya agad sa A-I-U-E-O unlike kanji in which they can write a sentence in 2 kanji characters only, un pitsa ng mahjong may similarity sa kanji as an example.