How do you remember Japanese??

Question

Ok. I know the question covers a lot of areas...but....I have troubles remembering the grammar, even worse, hiragana and katakana.....*sigh* any tips for me to remember them? although i am a quater japanese, the hiragana/katakana just doesn't store in my head.......TT_TT

Answer 1

thats a really sad question. If you can speak english you can learn japanese. English spelling is so irregular if you havent noticed, even as a native. learning those alphabets cant be that hard

sorry i came across a bit hard there. I should have said, you have learnt english, there is no way you wont be able to learn japanese, if you think back to your childhood days, remember how many flippen times your teachers would make you write your abc's? well go on microsoft word make up tons of tables and just write and write all the hiragana and katakana until you remember.

thanks

Answer 2

you could be full japanese and not speak a word of it, what you are doesn't make learning a language any different.

i'm a japanese learner and it's took me 4 years to hold a decent conversation.

it depends on how you do things. try and think of a way that's best to your learning style...

the way i learned hiragana and katakana is printed off a chart of each, with the pronunciations below and read them out as i went along every day for about 2 weeks. i also kept practicing by reading japanese scripts.

now i can read it as well as i can read english.

think of a way that's best for you, that you know will help you remember and practice!

Answer 3

Practice, patience and time.

Its takes time to learn and memorize both kana and years more to learn all the relevant kanji.

If you are consistent with your studies though you will eventually pick it up.

For me to learn both kana sets, I would write both alphabets at least twice a day and try to do as much from memory as possible.

It wasn't long before I had them both memorized.

Only reading them doesn't help. Writing them out by hand is essential.  

Answer 4

First off, English is probably more difficult, seeing as many grammatical rules are broken, making English an extremely inconsistent language.  

Japanese isn't that difficult [I'm learning it, so I know what grammar rules there are and what you might be struggling with].  You've probably noticed how consistent it is with every sentence.  Like how there are only 2 exceptions to the verb usage [suru and kuru], and how past tense is always "mashita" or "deshita".  

Unlike English, there are many exceptions to remember, so in Japanese, just try your best in memorizing the few exceptions.

As for the hiragana and katakana, I recommend you memorizing a 2 lines per day [with 5 in each line, it would make only 10 symbols per day].  

You could make up pictures with the hiragana/katakana [for example, my brother thought that "i" in hiragana looked like 2 eels, the "i" and "ee" make the same sound].  

Katakana should be much easier to memorize after you've gotten a strong hold on hiragana, because many katakana symbols look remarkably similar to the hiragana correspondent [such as "e" or "ka" among others].  

Also note that while you are beginning, that there is usually a particle [such as wo, wa, no, to, ...] between every word [I think gradually, some particles are dropped in order to communicate faster or something, but usually a particle is between each word].  The only thing left to memorize about particles is the way they are to be used, which could be a bit difficult at first.  

What I've done is watched Japanese dramas and taken on to anime [I'm not sure if this would be effective for you, or if you'd even enjoy it], and listening to Japanese music.  It helps a lot as you become more familiar to hearing it and the particle usage should come much more fluently and easier.  Also, it's a way to see the "newer" Japanese language, as a language is always constantly changing over time.  

Good luck!!

I hope this helped a bit.  

Answer 5

its very hard, it isnt similar to english, spanish, or french that i know of.

i dont think there is a simple way to memorize it or remember.

just practice alot. thatll be the only way i guess

i tried for a while and gotten pretty good, but actually got lazy and forgot after a year ,

i still remember som stuff