This is a companion activity to accompany the 「りゃりゅりょ」writing lessons! Now, you don’t have to compile these vocabulary words on your own as we have you covered with a useful list of vocabulary to help you differentiate 拗音, youon, and 五十音, gojuuon!

こんにちにゃあ！Welcome to Kiki+Koko: Let’s NihonGO!! Online! We’re your personal guides to Japanese language and culture, Kiki and Koko! When you’re studying any subject, it can feel like the more you know, the more you realise there is to learn. And, that can certainly occur in smaller increments as well. Even when you’re in search of vocabulary words to use to practise the huge stack of hiragana you’ve learnt already, you may end up stumbling upon some blends you haven’t yet encountered. This can be frustrating when you’re trying to focus on vocabulary for your specific reading level– not the general level, but to the exact characters that you’ve learnt. This can assist you in keeping older lessons fresh, reassuring yourself of how far you’ve progressed, and it can assist you in incorporating the new characters into your rotation. It’s important to go back and give those special attention, as well, but in this case, we’re here to help you focus on the characters you want to practise without the ones for which you’re not quite ready. Don’t waste your precious study-time scavenging the internet for vocabulary to bolster your skills! We have you covered. When we say we’ll help you every step of the way, we mean EVERY step of the way– Well, save for practising the characters for you and putting in the effort… But, you won’t have to worry about that after the robot uprising. You can practise your reading and writing あ～りょ with the modified hiragana gojuuon with and everything in between with ease with these digital flashcards we’ve coded for you.

For the very latest, you can navigate to the 平仮名の筆順 | How to Write Hiragana

Perhaps, though, this could be your first encounter with writing hiragana! Or, just as likely, you’re here, but you also need a refresher on the previous characters. Because when you’re practising new ones, again, it’s important to keep the previous ones fresh in your mind in order to be sure you maintain until it becomes second nature and you can access the information at will. But, it’s also easy to let oneself slip into bad habits once one becomes very comfortable with writing. That’s why it’s important to take a look back at the stroke orders for the other characters we’ll be showing, as well. There’s always an improvement to be had with handwriting, and it never hurts to improve your handwriting! Well…unless you write a lot… Be sure to be safe when you’re encoding these into your muscle memory, keeping good writing habits, especially if you’re someone already taking notes for other classes or everyday use. You can always use a touchscreen or a whiteboard if you ever get in a pinch with tired hands. It usually is a bit of a rest with less pressure than a traditional pen or pencil, that way you can still fulfill your revision needs when your hands ever need a rest. But, we understand, it doesn’t always have that same satisfying texture. If you’re finding yourself buried in piles of practice paper, you can always try to keep it to one notebook.

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Obviously, any paper or thing you can write on will do, but it’s just kind of neat to have all of your practice and progress in one neat tidy area. Anyway! As we mentioned, this is a good opportunity to practise previous characters, even if only from the same previous group as well as follow our steps to getting the most out of your study session, which we outline in the main writing lesson. If you need a bit more assistance on the main character blends we’re practising, those are there for you as well.

And this brings us to the challenge! You can use this activity to practise reading, writing, and a bit of vocabulary along the way. That’s right, practising three skills at once! You’ll be unstoppable!! This will cover the hiragana from 【あ】through 【りゃりゅりょ】. That way, you can focus on the characters you’re already learning, or have learnt, without bogging yourself down with new characters quite yet. If you don’t quite have the stroke order properly memorised, and you’d like to practise writing, you can open a separate tab with our stroke order lessons. We really recommend you use this as an opportunity for writing, and even if you’re confident in your characters, it can be helpful to make sure your handwriting improves. There’s something very fun and impressive about nice handwriting that is timeless and rewarding.

So, we’ve created a 12 word activity to help you recall your hiragana.  In this mini-activity, you basically have digital flashcards. By clicking on each of them, you’ll reveal a kanji (or katakana) version that defines the meaning of the word, and of course, the translation in English. Many words have several homophones, so we’ve just included some common meanings as not to bog your studies down.

No worries, we’ll keep it simple and stick to a few words that use only the hiragana: 【あいうえお】through【りゃりゅりょ】!

Ready? Let’s NihonGO!!

As a reminder, these are just a few vocabulary words. Knowing hiragana from あ through りょ opens up a HUGE amount of words to you! Some are less common then others, but are useful and interesting to help you connect some concepts to your writing, and recognising the characters in new configurations. We hope you get the most that you can out of these digital flashcards~! 

(Get the most out of your session with these tips from【りゃりゅりょ】第２２課 )

[ピント｜Focus]: We’ll be providing you with a focus on 「りゃ、りゅ、りょ」 vs 「りや、りゆ、りよ」Be sure when you read and write these to focus on the differences between these very similar characters and their 拗音、youon, counterparts.

Take this! It’s dangerous to go alone.

Whether or not you’re a beginner doesn’t mean you have to stick to basic vocabulary. Make your studies fun and reach further by using today’s vocabulary to create difference sentences and maybe even stories! Connecting these vocabulary and characters with concepts can be wildly beneficial. But, if that’s not a path that works best for you, then just focus on the basics: Did you have a difficult time differentiating between 拗音, youon, and 五十音、gojuuon? Did you recognise some of the previous 拗音, youon, used again? Do you feel a bit more skilled after this? Whether it was difficult or a breeze, we hope that this enriched your Japanese language learning experience. It can be a bit of a pain to search for focused vocabulary based on the characters you’re studying and only including ones that you’ve encountered before. That’s why we hope this will help you to just focus on the activity, writing, and again, possibly some composition if you’re overachieving. Just give it your best, and you can return any time to practise reading and writing as long as you wish!

Remember, we’re always adding new explanations and hopefully helpful lessons about grammar and vocabulary so you can create proper sentences and express your thoughts in Japanese! (And, if you want the VERY latest, even before we organise the articles into their sections on the site and even before they’re organised onto our Pinterest boards, you can go the category: 文法｜Grammar! And, better yet, if you’d like to be sure you have the latest hiragana writing lessons before they’re categorised elsewhere in a prettier way, you can just get the list of the latest to access them quickly in the category: 平仮名の筆順 | How to Write Hiragana. And, with that, we hope we’ve given you all of the resources you need to make the most of your current study time! We’ll continue to add more and more for you as the days and weeks roll on during your Japanese language learning journey!

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