Kana Learner’s Courses (Hiragana and Katakana)
Authors: Andrew Scott Conning and Fluency Forge
Reach advanced proficiency in all the skills you need for the Japanese Hiragana script—including reading, writing, listening, pronouncing, and keyboarding—using the most powerful kana learning system available today. Includes a complete introduction to the fundamentals of Japanese phonetic writing. Enroll at Fluency Forge.
Kana Pro Skills
Authors: Andrew Scott Conning and Fluency Forge
Use our Kana Pro Skills course to train yourself in the advanced kana skills required for handling the challenges of real-world Japanese. This course’s 20 targeted modules will arm you with the complete kana skill set. Enroll at Fluency Forge.
Kana Learner’s Workbook
Author: Andrew Scott Conning
Companion workbook to the PlusOne Japanese Hiragana, Katakana, and Kana Pro Skills courses. Provides everything you need to take full advantage of our kana courses, including stroke-order diagrams and tracing characters for every kana, hatched writing spaces for practice exercises, self-testing tables, a hard copy of instructional material provided in the courses, and time-saving instruction on kana-based sorting. This workbook also contains hours of challenging drills not available in the online course. Buy on Amazon.
Kana Learner’s Guide
Author: Andrew Scott Conning
This glossy, 29-page color booklet combines the information from PlusOne’s pdf Kana Learner’ Guide (free), Kana Pro Skills Guide, and Kana Wall Chart. Get this if you would like to have a slim volume with all the key kana reference information in one place. Most of the same information is printed in black & white in the workbook. Buy on Amazon.
Kana Wall Chart
Creator: Andrew Scott Conning
This comprehensive annotated display arranges 240+ kana sound units into an illuminating visual framework that reveals the underlying phonological structure of Japanese; clarifies the principles underpinning the Hepburn, Kunrei, and QKR romanization systems; and concisely introduces the fundamentals of Japanese phonetic writing. Display beside your workstation for easy reference while keyboarding or writing. Soon to be offered on Amazon.com by our partner company Lexica Global Language Systems (application pending).
Quicker-Keyboarding Romanization
Creator: Andrew Scott Conning
To help learners master efficient rōmaji-based Japanese text input while also mastering correct pronunciation, PlusOne Japanese Kana has adopted a new hybrid romanization system called Quicker-Keyboarding Romanization (aka QKR / “Quicker”).
QKR is two things: (1) an efficient system of keyboard input, and (2) an organized method of glossing romanized Japanese text in order to teach (1).
To learn QKR, please try the PlusOne Japanese Kana course at Fluency Forge.