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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4796 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 9 of 11 29 January 2015 at 3:31pm | IP Logged |
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I learnt hiragana for fun (and to taste a bit of Japanese) and it took me a week at very
slow pace. I forgot it afterwards as I haven't got time to dive deeper into Japanese unfortunately. What worked for me: -those Memrise courses (some of the mnemonics there are awesome) -writing the symbols repeatedly -practice reading of exemple words in hiragana. That helped actually a lot, especially as the words my textbook chose as exemples are mostly well known (fuji, koi, sushi,...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3908 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian | Message 10 of 11 04 February 2015 at 7:06pm | IP Logged |
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Sakanage:
Learn first the vowels in japanese order: a i u e o - this is important in order to keep portuguese order from interfering Then learn the alphabet in each vowel order: a: a, ka, sa, ta, na, ha, ma, ya, ra, wa e: e, ke... etc... Then learn it in it's natural order: a, i, u, e, o, ka, ki, ku, ke... Then write random characters and try to identify then later, start writting all things in "portuguese" but using hiragana to the sounds. Plus: do it before going to sleep. I'm sure you'll learn all chars in 1 week. I studied hiragana to test a theory of learning before sleep as memory improvement and I was able to learn the entire alphabet in 4 days. It was 4 years ago and I forgot it completly already. You can try if it works with you aswell. Obs: to the blog's purist zealots: I'm putting the sounds here because I'm too lazy to go to google translate and use their virtual keyboard. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Yrek Pentaglot Newbie Poland Joined 3374 days ago 34 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Polish*, Japanese, Korean, English, Mandarin Studies: Vietnamese Studies: Hungarian, Mongolian | Message 11 of 11 05 February 2015 at 8:05pm | IP Logged |
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I tell you my method:
Copy all the alphabets into a sheet of paper Cover them and try to guess how it looks like one by one. If you don't remember, start from the beginning. Also: try to learn some words, seeing chars in context will help you. At the beginning when learning foreign writing system, you will notice you are reading much slower than in Latin. you need to practice reading. Also, try do some writing in your free time, watch videos on hiragana on the Internet etc. I don't find learning using flashcards that effective, you are seeing words in isolation etc. I tried to learn Cherokee with flashcards. Didn't work out. I am saying this as someone who learned : hanzi (2000-3000), Hangul, hiragana, katakana, Arabic, Hebrew (badly) writing systems. Or maybe I was just not motivated enough to learn Cherokee. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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