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  • dragg's Avatar
    43,776 posts since Mar '05
    • write it individually on small pieces of paper.

      pick one out and read it. do it again and again until you cannot forget.

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    17,965 posts since Aug '01
    • I writing everything out, doing the brute force method that I used to do Chinese last time Crying or Very sad

  • ted_nhg's Avatar
    103 posts since Jan '07
    • I wouldn't say my method is the best or good way.
      But like what my chinese school teacher used to say:-

      Listen, speak, read and write.

      One bizarre (and insane) method i'm using:

      Step 1: Prepare a table with all the syllabus, Hiragana and katakana on separate paper.
      Step 2: Play a jap. game with audio speech and text display.
      Step 3: Activate your MS Words, with IME and jap language input system
      Step 4: Start typing!

      ps: the above method may proof to be time wasting and ineffective
      ( use it at your own risk.....Mr. Green ) .

      Edited by ted_nhg 01 Oct `07, 7:58PM
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    103 posts since Jan '07
    • Originally posted by eagle:
      Cannot afford time wasting

      I have to speed learn liao

      then i suggest the hard way out:

      Your old traditional write on, while reading it. like what one would've done for chinese characters.

      BTW, i think therez an ebooks regarding this issue:

      >>Here<<

      Edited by ted_nhg 01 Oct `07, 8:11PM
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    • Originally posted by ted_nhg:
      then i suggest the hard way out:

      Your old traditional write on, while reading it. like what one would've done for chinese characters.

      BTW, i think therez an ebooks regarding this issue:

      >>Here<<

      Yep I did the hard way out

      I forgot to mention I have learned Hiragana about 2 weeks before. Only writing everything out again and again Wink

      Problem is, slower in coming out with the words than I would like

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    51,105 posts since Sep '03
    • When I started it was also slow. It took an hour re-writing and then keep looking at them and testing yourself mentally the characters for the next 2 days. That's for hiragana.

      Katakana, unless you really need to learn first, you should do it at your own pace after you have mastered hiragana, probably after a week. Because Katakana is hell lot difficult to memorise than hiragana. I don't know why. Laughing

      Also, as mentioned above, try to associate it with the chinese originated word. It helps a lot if you are already strong in chinese, and it is a plus as when Kanji comes along you can use them with ease and even use Kanji to memorise Hiragana.

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    17,965 posts since Aug '01
    • Originally posted by ^tamago^:
      When I started it was also slow. It took an hour re-writing and then keep looking at them and testing yourself mentally the characters for the next 2 days. That's for hiragana.

      Katakana, unless you really need to learn first, you should do it at your own pace after you have mastered hiragana, probably after a week. Because Katakana is hell lot difficult to memorise than hiragana. I don't know why. Laughing

      Also, as mentioned above, try to associate it with the chinese originated word. It helps a lot if you are already strong in chinese, and it is a plus as when Kanji comes along you can use them with ease and even use Kanji to memorise Hiragana.

      I dying liao

      Need to learn finish katakana and some kanji by tmr Laughing
      And just started with my German hwk only..... Sad

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