Japanese Language

The Japanese language is a very fun language to learn. Since they have a different alphabet than ours, sometimes it is fun to find pictures in the alphabet, called "kana". The Japanese have 3 different alphabets. Two of them are kana, but the last one is made up of 1760 Chinese characters the Ministry of Education chose for everyday use. Right now I am learning the first 103 "kanji" (chinese characters) for the Level 4 Japanese Language Proficency Test. Many of them are easy to learn and especially the ones for 1, 2, 3, river, and mountain. 1 (一) is 1 horizontal line, continuing with 2 (二) and 3 (三). River (can't type it in) is three vertical lines of equal length and mountain (山) looks like that except the middle line is highest making it look like a mountain.