A good teaching tool

For learning Hiragana.

Now after 10+ years of struggling with the Japanese language-I remain convinced that starting with Romanji ( anglicized Japanese) is a bad way to go. A beginner in Nihongo should start by memorizing the Hiragana and Katakana alphabets first and then bit by bit learn Kanji with furigana (hiragana in parentheses over the Kanji). Starting with Romanji set me back a bit-way back when. Being in Alabama has set me back way back now.

Which is why I think this video from Danny Choo is pretty good:

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