Basics
Welcome to Japanese!
Japanese has three writing systems. In hiragana, which you can use to write most Japanese words, each character represents a syllable, and there are no spaces between words. We use romaji to represent Japanese sounds using the Roman alphabet:
すしとみず
[sushi to mizu]
sushi and water
In Japanese, verbs go at the end:
すしです。
[sushi desu]
It's sushi.