Recommendations for memorizing Hiragana.

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1. I drew them out along with a few words.

2. Okay listen here human, Japanesepod101 on YouTube. Get yourself a pen and notebook and copy. They teach you how to remember and draw them correctly. I learnt Hiragana and katakana. Took my time but it’s in my brain so yeah 😌✨

3. Everyone shits on it but Duolingo really helped me with hiragana. I was able to get it into my short term memory at the very least. Repeatedly coming in contact with hiragana on the internet, subtitles or reading helped them stick into long term memory. Also adding the Japanese keyboard to your phone and typing words out with it helps a lot as well.

4. While I was learning my teacher just made me write each set (each set as in the k set, the m set, the n set etc) 20 times, it really helped. You can also back that up with reading easy stuff in hiragana.

5. I use an app Hiragana memory hint.

6. Thank you for the tips everyone!

7. Looks like you’ve got some answers already but if you’re looking for another app, I found Hiragana Quest to be extremely helpful. Learned both hiragana and katakana in about three days using that app

8. This site has free worksheets and charts, etc- if you view it in chrome you can translate the page and then the hiragana practice sheets will be either under ‘infant’ or ‘elementary’

   https://happylilac.net

   What we did with our Japanese 1 students was have them write out the entire hiragana chart every day, and also test them on 5-10 characters at a time. If apps are your thing, Dr Moku is pretty good

9. I’ve seen nobody mention this yet so I highly recommend Tofugu! It’s all mnemonic based, something I personally find really helpful and I’m now signed up to their sister platform, Wanikani, for learning Kanji

10. I used Human Japanese and a basic white board and marker. Wrote them one by one until I remembered them, and then did it again until I could remember each as a set (aiueo/kakikukeko/etc).

11. I learnt hiragana and katakana using mnemonics from the japanesepod101 video series for these. They were generally like も looks like a mo-nitor lizard, け looks like a ke-g (of beer) and so forth. I found it helpful at the time.