A couple questions…

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1. you can spell any Japanese words with either hiragana or katakana. In most cases, you can use Kanji. Exceptions to this are gitaigo (words that describe somethings state like sticky “nebaneba” or shiny “pikapika” and giongo (words that describe sounds) like “gorogoro” rumbling. You will notice that these words say the same thing twice. This is to offer a continual state, so “guruto” spin around one time only “guruguru” continually spinning. Katakana is usually used for foreign loan words, and hiragana for Japanese words that don’t have kanji, but you could just use hiragana or katakana to “spell” any japanese words.

2. Think of them as fonts,
   * hiragana as an normal
   * *katakana as an italic*