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I could write all of the Katakana from memory on day one… sure it took some time, but that was part of my ‘all day one day’ practice session. I’m just saying learning Hiragana/Katakana isn’t as hard as some people make it out to be, you just need to really want to do it.
I didn’t know anybody was making it out as hard to begin with to be honest.
Don’t quite believe you were proficient with 60+ characters within a day, including writing and recalling them purely from memory. I’m just saying because I thought I was pretty great for getting through 100 kanji and recalling them that day, then I went ahead and forgot most of them the next. Oops.
Like I said, I was able to stumble through them all… Stumble… I find Kanji much harder (can only really remember 50-60 a day max, I’ve tried more to no avail). I think the only reason I managed to learn Katakana so fast was because I learned Hiragana only a week prior so my brain was already in ‘the mode’, and I literally spent all 18 hours of my day drilling them (with a few music/food/tofugu breaks). Woke up the next day and got through 100 katakana loan words in my anki vocab deck, took me over an hour, but I read them all. Dunno whats terribly hard to believe…
Lol right okay.
Oh, I just remembered these, Japanese kids books from when I asked around a few weeks ago. It’s all in Hiragana too.
http://nihongo-dekimasu.blogspot.com/2008/10/japanese-childrenbooks-practice-reading.html
http://nihongo-dekimasu.blogspot.com/2008/11/japanese-childrenbooks-practice-reading.htmlok, seriously though. How are you doing this? 50-60 Kanji a DAY!? thats literally like 250+ pieces to remember. Crazy Sauce
We all work and learn at our own pace. I don’t see learning Japanese as a competition or a race with other people. Just do what’s most comfortable and realistic for you.
It’s just short term memorisation, most of it will be forgotten the next day. It’s why I don’t say I’ve learnt something until I’m using it like it’s almost second nature.
I was doing 100 kanji a day on RTK for a very short while, in the end it’s not that productive, it leads to overwhelming reviews and you will forget more than you remember, especially when it gets to the more complex ones. (although I was hardly using the RTK reviewing site very productively to begin with)
Fully agree with Yggbert. Setting realistic targets is by far the best way.
I did around sixty twice, but I found around 40 works best for me, any less and it becomes too easy and I get less retention, more than that just becomes unpleasant.
umm…I’m just going to put this here since one of you posted that the real kana site does NOT list combo kana. that’s NOT true. i’m not sure if koichi or any other of the textfugu peeps know this or not either but they DO have it(i say this because in the lessons it doesn’t make you study them on realKana). Anywyas if you go to the bottom on the right hand side of either ‘hiragana’ or ‘katakana’ the word ‘more’ is located there. Click on it and BAM you have combo kana. :]
i’ve learned them by simply writing the hirigana, and will do the same with the katakana, over and over while speaking it.
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