are the two different or are they the same?

これはひらがなです。　<---- Hiragana

Kore wa hiragana desu. <--- This is the same in romaji.

Romaji is the romanization of japanese words / sentences. They're quite useful if you've never learned the japanese syllable characters Hiragana and Katakana. But be careful not to get too dependant on romaji, coz it'd be more difficult if you try to learn Hiragana.

any good tutorials i read the one by gin but that helps only with pronunciations and i got the hang of that now i wanna learn what the translation of words

http://www.guidetojapanese.org/index.html
http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/~ts/japanese/cover.html
http://www.learn-japanese.info/indexg.html

These three websites all offer good online japanese lessons including kana and grammar. So if you wanna take a look, please do so. But if you seriously want to learn japanese, you have to visit japanese courses. ^^

Cool. I wanted to learn to. Thanks Taiki. :)

For me the best place for learning hiragana and katakana is: Japanese Lesson

There You can find animation and sound.
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hey thanks for all the links! will try them all!

sankyu~ :good

I get mine here... there's a bunch of videos there

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