So, several months later and I'm still stuck on hiragana and katakana. Would you guys… - Feed Post by Razernok
So, several months later and I'm still stuck on hiragana and katakana.
Would you guys recommend me getting the Genki I textbook and workbook to help me out????
Would you guys recommend me getting the Genki I textbook and workbook to help me out????
posted by Razernok
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I personally find the Genki 1 book is more for Vocab and grammar. But it has some really good katakana and hiragana tables which are a great help if you're stuck on hiragana and katakana. (when I was learning hiragana and katana i just wrote them down and tested myself until it stuck...) Also maybe just try and learn some vocabulary - maybe you're not as stuck as you might think and the vocab will be a great help in memorizing hiragana und katakana as well :)
Or try out this learning website called Memrise it's free and you can do a learning cours on hiragana and katakana- there are also the Dr Mokus katakana and Dr. Mokus hiragana apps (you can do the first lessons for free but then you have to pay) they're worth the money in my opinion ... It makes you learn the characters using pitures and catchy sentences
no offense but how is that even possible? i've learned hundreds of KANJI in just the past month
i used this to learn kana, you should have it down in a couple of days at the most with this:
https://realkana.com/
here get unstuck https://djtguide.neocities.org/kana/
@Blabberbob, I've been using that site and the app. Still haven't mastered my hiragana and katakana. I'm also trying to learn to write both.
@IJamLegend, I am trying to master both reading and writing of both hiragana and katakana.- just keep at it, dude; persistence is key; you'll get there
- Feels like its gonna take me a few years just for the kana
Maybe you will feel like that. But push through eventually it is really worth it and it will make learning Japanese easier.
It is all about exposure and repetition. Don't go for all of them at once, when i did it i just added a row in the Hepburn table every couple of days. Focus on hiragana since that gives you the most millage at the beginning and is a lot less confusing than katakana (I still get confused with those pesky ソンノツシ... (´；ω；`)ｳｯ…)
I'm gonna throw my own site recommendation in the mix: https://www.tanoshiijapanese.com/practice/
as soon as you can, use the English flashcard option under Writing practice (this mode requires you to write the character instead of reading it), since knowing what a character looks like creates a stronger link than simply being able to recognize them.
once you are decently confident that you are able to read, get rid of all the romaji. Force yourself to read it, even if it is slow and full of mistakes at the beginning.
As for Genki, it is quite a decent book but probably isn't going to help you any more with this problem than a lot of free resources available on the web.
