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Originally Posted by egao

I just couldn't figure out the difference between Hiragana and Katakana, except for the writing of course, but when do you use Hiragana and when Katakana?

hiragana is used for words which do have an equivalent
japanese word while katakana is used when
writing foreign words without an exact japanese term..

i.e.
coffee (koohii) would be written in katakana

while

milk (gyuunyuu) would be written in hiragana

sorry for not explaining well but i hope it would help..