This material comes with a complete chart of 46 hiragana letters and with practice sheets.
As a result, Japanese people have accustomed to writing letters that way.
That means that English speakers not only have to learn new words, grammar, and pronunciation but also an entirely new writing system.
Below you will be able to hear how the letters above are pronounced, just press the play button: Japanese Pronunciation This is just an introduction to some Japanese characters.
I used to do this over and over for both hiragana and katakana.
These lines are read top to bottom, right-to-left.