Hey, i just started learning and got a rosetta stone account for it but i got a problem with that it doesnt teach you any of the alphabet and immediately stats with words and vocab. It would help me a ton to learn the alphabet and how to pronounce each one. I learned a few from duolingo earlier this year but dont know them all. Is there any service where i can learn that stuff easily?
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i recommend tofugu for learning the kana
For hiragana https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/
For katakana https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-katakana/
For kanji https://www.wanikani.com/
There are plenty of resources to learn the writing system, but you should consider looking at the [starter’s guide](https://reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/w/index?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app) to cover everything else. Unless Rosetta Stone has massively overhauled its Japanese course (which apparently it hasn’t; at least not enough for non-RS affiliates to think it’s worth it as of 2022), then it’s probably one of your worst available resources.
Just my opinion, but Rosetta Stone sucks
Generally, Rosetta Stone is not recommended by most people in this sub for Japanese as it’s really geared more towards Romance languages.
The Starters Guide in the sidebar of this sub should help you out. Good luck!
The problem with Rosetta Stone is that every course is exactly the same, they are basically just asset flips (which makes their price point even more outrageous). The courses were constructed to teach Italian, English or Spanish and work pretty well for those languages.
Their Japanese course is exactly the same as their Spanish course but Japanese does not work like that which makes it a big waste of money in my opinion.