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What Are Some Good Memorisation Tactics For Learning Hiragana And Katakana?
What Are Some Good Memorisation Tactics For Learning Hiragana And Katakana?
posted by Kirtio_Kun
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Honestly? Just using them. Start with your own name. Typically, foreign names are written in Katakana, but for the sake of learning, try it. If you're not sure how it'd go, use this http://japanesetranslator.co.uk/dictionaries/your-name-in-japanese/
Once you have that down, just start finding some basic Japanese vocabulary and writing those down. Make certain you're pronouncing them as well to help solidify. Practice, practice, practice. There's no magic way around it.
Try to think back to how you were taught the English alphabet when you were little. Just do pretty much the same thing again for learning the Japanese syllabary (hiragana and katakana). If you could manage to learn the alphabet's 26 upper case and 26 lower case letters when you were around four years old, then, even though hiragana and katakana have a few more characters each, surely it should be a walk in the park this time around now you're older? ^^
I don't really remember how I learned the alphabet, but what I do is ,from time to time, to write the hiragana and katakana on a paper and then I check them and see if they're correct. If not I write them down how they shoud be and test myself later again.
there are also some apps that test you for them which you could use.
I also learned them through memorizing the table (looking at it again and again, repeating the syllables to yourself and drawing them) and then by regularly writing words and sentences in hiragana and katakana (=Kana). It's a good idea to write words you want to memorize in Kana, in addition to Romaji, if you're learning vocabulary items. :)
