I’m interested in Japanese and I found Tofugu have a mnemonic chart, but I don’t think it is good enough (I tried but I forgot 90% of it). And then I saw a better option: Dr. Moku, but it is paid. So anyone know some good mnemonics chart? Thanks!
Effectiveness of certain Mnemonics is based on the individual. I don’t think there’s better or worse charts in general, just different ones (for example, the Tofugu charts were very effective for learning katakana for me).
Maybe you need to supplement your mnemonic studies with kana quizzes to keep them more effectively.
It would be better to create your own mnemonics where you need them (i.e. you probably won’t need them for every character). You’ll remember them better and you’ll get practice in creating mnemonics which you’ll need to do a lot of when you come to kanji.
With hiragana & katakana you shouldn’t need mnemonics for very long anyway. You can drill recognition with this useful app [https://djtguide.neocities.org/kana/](https://djtguide.neocities.org/kana/)
Get the hiragana and katakana memory apps by the japan foundation. Totally free and I liked their mnemonics a lot
Try the japanesepod101 videos on YouTube, watch 5 kana then flick over to http://www.realkana.com and drill them. Watch the next 5 and then drill them. Repeat that through both and you’ll get familiar with them fairly quickly. Don’t overthink kana though, most people agree we spent too much time on them, you’re going to be seeing them constantly from now on so you’ll get your confidence with them over time. You’ll muddle some up, you’ll forget some, but that’s normal and we all still misread them from time to time. Good luck on your journey!
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Effectiveness of certain Mnemonics is based on the individual. I don’t think there’s better or worse charts in general, just different ones (for example, the Tofugu charts were very effective for learning katakana for me).
Maybe you need to supplement your mnemonic studies with kana quizzes to keep them more effectively.
It would be better to create your own mnemonics where you need them (i.e. you probably won’t need them for every character). You’ll remember them better and you’ll get practice in creating mnemonics which you’ll need to do a lot of when you come to kanji.
With hiragana & katakana you shouldn’t need mnemonics for very long anyway. You can drill recognition with this useful app [https://djtguide.neocities.org/kana/](https://djtguide.neocities.org/kana/)
Get the hiragana and katakana memory apps by the japan foundation. Totally free and I liked their mnemonics a lot
Try the japanesepod101 videos on YouTube, watch 5 kana then flick over to http://www.realkana.com and drill them. Watch the next 5 and then drill them. Repeat that through both and you’ll get familiar with them fairly quickly. Don’t overthink kana though, most people agree we spent too much time on them, you’re going to be seeing them constantly from now on so you’ll get your confidence with them over time. You’ll muddle some up, you’ll forget some, but that’s normal and we all still misread them from time to time. Good luck on your journey!
Just power through it with anki.