Another way to say "I understand a little Japanese"

The language program I listen to when learning Japanese (Radio Lingua, one minute Japanese) said that the way to say "I understand a little Japanese" would sound like "Watashi wa nihongo ga chotto wakarimas". Being pretty visual, I wanted to see this in Hiragana. No pages I looked at, though, had this as a proper way to say "I understand a little Japanese". After further research, I attempted to put this together in Hiragana. I think it would look something like this: 私は 日本語が ちょっと わかります. But, total beginner here, I probably have no idea! I was wondering if this could be used, and if so, is that the correct Hiragana? I thought it made sense, with "watashi wa" meaning I, "Nihongo ga" meaning Japanese, "chotto" being a very informal little, and "Wakarimas" meaning understand. But on google translate, it translates to "I find little is Japanese", not what I was hoping. Once again, I could be totally misinformed since this was all self taught! Thanks for any help!