There are three character sets in Japanese---hiragana, katakana and kanji. In this lesson, we will focus on the first two character sets, hiragana and katakana. We will also learn how to type Japanese on a computer with the English keyboard. The following expressions are used in this lesson, but the formal grammar explanation for these will be provided in the subsequent lessons. Noun sentence: Noun + です /desu/ Question marker か /ka/: Noun＋ですか /desu ka/ はい /hai/, ええ /ee/ vs. いいえ /iie/