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 Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:30 pm
Konbanwa
I can't figure out a good way to learn hirigana. So far I've just been writing down the character, then repeating the pronounciation in my mind. There must be an easier/more fun way to learn!
Enlighten me.
Arigatoo.
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:42 pm
仮名 are very easy to learn.
i dont see how your could be having hard time.
if you remember, it should be the same way you were taught to read enligsh.
Japanese has no shortcuts, and you are going to have to stick with what your doing. practice with actual sentences will help.
あの、ちょっと教えていただけたらありがたいですがこれはどうすればいいでしょうか？
And oh worng forum
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:19 pm
just do like Aiko said, just like how you learned english
write the symbol over about 10 times and then translate romanji into hiragana.
thats how they do it in the japanese class room.
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:57 pm
The methods Aiko and Scarred wrote are definitely a good way to go. But if you want something more creative, do what I did:
It took me many many weeks to learn hiragana, not because I'm bad at memorizing things, but because I didn't apply myself. Writing them over and over got tedious. So what I did was I started writing out names from my favorite anime characters (I was an anime geek way back in eighth grade sweatdrop ) and my friends and family. Then I started doing that with Japanese words. It was really a lot of fun. It doesn't help for learning every single character (since I know very few people with a sound like "wo" in their names!) but it will get you motivated and you will memorize the majority of them that way. Try it! It always helps to make tedious work fun. FYI, with that strategy, I memorized Katakana in a week. 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:07 pm
Gomen. I memorized hiragana and katakana easily because I have a really good visual memory. Even so, I was doing the same thing everyone else does - writing it down over and over. It's been over a year, but I still do it once in a while - so I don't forget.
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:20 pm
I used the book Remembering the Kana by James W. Heisig. He helps if you have a good imagination. After that, to make sure they stuck, I got a book that had furigana and read it a lot.
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:56 pm
or you can do the easy way which can help you learn to write it and recognize it:
MAKE FLASH CARDS
I learned hiragana WAY fast with this. You can write the character on the front really big and then on the back write the romaji for it. You can also write the stroke order on the character since you're gonna write it so big. Then just go through them everyday for about 10 minutes. You'll get it sooner or later.
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:07 am
My teacher made us, for both hira and kata, do "mneumonic devices" where we'd say kinda what the character looked like.... for example, き looks kind of like a key in a door! Like  Honestly, it didn't really work for me. I hated it. But it worked for some people. The only way you can find out if it works is to do it-- make some flashcards with the roomanji on one side, and the character on the right and the mneumonic device over it in a light color so you can see the real one.... and memorize em!!! smile And make sure to pick em so the mneumonic device has the sound in it, make the picture to kinda look like it (the key/ki thing above is the only one I really got, but some people it helped)
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:33 pm
Couldn't have said it better than anyone else. It's best to practice writing the hiragana/katakana symbols. That's how I learned. But I went to Japanese school for three years so having a sensei really helped me. Not to mention they have books about writing them too.
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:42 pm
flashcards ^^ I have close to perfect hiragana and I learned it all in 2 weeks. Thanks to flashcards xd
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:31 pm
yep, flashcards are the way to go. but make sure you test yourself both on the reading AND the writing. that plus the "mneumonic" methods previous mentioned helped me learn hiragana and katakana very fast. and now i use these methods to learn kanji. again, make sure you test yourself for the writing. when you make flash cards, make sure you've got the english/romaji reading on the back, or something. so you can look at that and test to see if you can write the character, not just read it. it's a good habit to get into for the kanji later on. there's no way you can just write complex kanji, no matter how well you can read them.
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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:42 pm
what I do is turn the flashcards the other way and have a spare piece of paper. Then I right it on there whee
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:24 am
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:26 pm
Oh, one thing I forgot to mention, I learned hiragana in 2 days and katakana in 4. 3nodding I know it sounds like bragging, but I'm not. sweatdrop I really did learn that quickly.
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 4:01 pm
are you trying to learn all at once? break them up into groups of five. just do A I U E O for a day. write them 5 times each in sets of 5 (5 A, 5 I, etc, then do all of that 5 times). Say them /as/ you write them.
next day, do the A's once each, then do the 5 by 5 thing for the K's (ka ki ku ke ko).
Concentrate on a few at a time, and always review the ones you've done before.
also:
FLASH CARDS ARE YOUR FRIEND.
hm. It would be interesting to have an "a is for apple" list for japanese. "a is for asagohan, i is for isu, u is for ushi, e is for eki, o is for onigiri." well, i was hoping for shorter words, but my vocabulary is a touch on the too small side.
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