We've learned Japanese charactors with simple 2 strokes in previous lessons.In this Lesson 6 to we are going to study mainly Katakanas with a ORERU line. The stroke changing it's direction with certain angle is called ORERU. 

The first one is

ル【ru】

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The stroke of 2nd line starts from the top, then go down straight, then bends itself at a sharp angle, to upper right. This is so called ORERU line.

You can see the right side of this letter is レ,


Next, we are going to study Katakana's which have フ as a part of them.
It's ラ、ヲ、ワ、ク、ス、ヌ

Just review フ first.
 
The first stroke of フ starts at the left upper corner, straightly going to the right drowing a horizontal line, then turn it's direction (ORERU) to the right bottom. 

ラ【ra】

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It's フ with a horizontal line.

The next one is also フ with horizontal line, but this time the position is different.

ヲ【wo】
*When you type, it's "wo" but when you pronounce, the "w" is usually weak or even dissappered.
There aren’t many instances of when you will see this/need this. You will see the reason when you will learn grammer, but now it's just for your info. 


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ワ【wa】
Then this is フ with a vertical dash.

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Some foreigners confuse this ワ and next ク【ku】
Let's see.

ク【ku】

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The first stroke is like ノ【no】while the first stroke of ワ is vertical line. Then with this ク, the horizontal line is shorter than フ.
Checking the origin of ク might helpful for you but I guess the origin of ワ is not much.

Now can you distinguish ワ from ク？


The next 2 Katakanas are a slant line with フ. These 2 letters look alike, too.

ス【su】
 
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ヌ【nu】

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The 2nd stroke of ス touches/starts from the part of フ, but the 2 nd stroke of ヌ is across over the フ. It is also look like メ as a part of the letter.

  Checking the origin of ス might helpful for you but I guess the origin of ク is not much.
   

Well, now we've learned 6 Katakanas, ル、ラ、ク、ワ、ス、ヌ