I'm an American and a few years ago I started getting into Japanese musicians (Senri Kawaguchi, Kanade Sato, Yoyoka Soma, Rie Suzaku, Juna Serita and others). T

I'm an American and a few years ago I started getting into Japanese musicians (Senri Kawaguchi, Kanade Sato, Yoyoka Soma, Rie Suzaku, Juna Serita and others). This got me into reading a little about how the Japanese write and it's crazy. They have four different systems. There is Kangi which is from Chinese. There are two different systems that are phonetic but based on syllables rather than single sounds. And finally they use the Roman script like we do. It must be really hard on the elementary school kids who are trying to learn this all.