Sense of Japan
ホーム
Japanese food
Japanese culture
Japanese anime
Japanese sightseeing
Japanese kabuki
Learning Japanese
Popular articles (人気記事)
The case against MNEMONICS when learning Japanese
2018.10.21
Learning Japanese
HOME
Learning Japanese
The case against MNEMONICS when learning Japanese
Learning Japanese
カテゴリの最新記事
2022.05.19
All Japanese Basics you Need to Know in one FREE PDF Pack
2022.05.19
Duolingo #1272 Japanese – English (Part 24 – Obligation 1 and Desires 1)
2022.05.19
#4 Super easy Japanese!!! You can read Japanese Katakana/Hiragana たちつてと/タチツテト
2022.05.18
Japanese kanji #kanji #learningjapanese #shorts
2022.05.18
Japanese ‘安’ kanji | Japanese Kanji For Peace | Japanese Kanji With Reading And Meaning
2022.05.17
10 Japanese Words You Need – Daily Life Vocabulary #1
when I was learning hiragana this is how i remembered ま (ma) and ほ (ho)
Your ma (ま) is a hoe (ほ) if she dances on a stripper pole.
So you’re not actually against mnemonics at all, you just think people should make their own ones instead of trying to force a set of ones made by someone else to stick in their minds. Kind of misleading title.
– This is great, that is great! I have another book here… [reaches for his own book]
Me thinking: WOW GEORGE
Turns out he just wanted to see the pile of books behind it. Hahahaha I love this guy
This is the case against BAD mnemonics when learning Japanese. You can _completely_ disregard mnemonics _entirely_ when learning the language or any language for that matter. It is how one uses mnemonics when in learning a language. It is associating the wrong graphical representation with the character’s meaning is what trips people up as what you a
pointing out.
I used that book to learn hiragana and it was very helpful for me.
The use of mnemonics is only short term until you can recognise the characters without needing them.
they’re terrible mnemonics but there are good ones out there. Even SO, the hiragana looks like the outline of the cone for SO-ft serve ice cream, I got told that once and I’ve never forgotten.
Please don’t be put of putting them in your books because other people are lazy about it.
mnemonics (had no idea they were called that until now lol) always seemed like a waste of time to me, when people tell me they learn kanji that way i just dont get it.
all i need to do to remember a kanji is write it out while using it in a sentence a few times, i think having that kind of context while learning really helps!
There are stupid Mnemonics and good Mnemonics.
Mns are really awesome if used correctly. This ラ example is of course really bad. The good use of Mns is when you just have the primitives (like standing, tree and see) and build your own story with it. Then it will stick inside your brain. Thats why RTK is great. Okay the first 500-600 Kanji tell you stories until you will start to make own stories. That’s not so great and many of the pre made stories are hard to remember, but you can just ignore it and make your own from the start.
I know you don’t like RTK, but RTK is in fact truely great 😡
I’m using that first book right now and I just ignore the mnemonics because I didn’t find them helpful at all. Much easier and practical to learn words with those kana in them. The only time I find mnemonics helpful is for memorizing lists of things that I don’t use, things that I only need to know the names of