learn hiragana

Started doing this again last week. Have been finding Utada Hikaru songs in romaji and rewriting them in hiragana. It’s been working! I’m already a lot faster at it.

Am still having difficulty with the ne and nu, the m and r line. But I’m getting better!

However I’ve discovered…. while I’m getting faster writing, my reading is still slow xD How odd.

Well, wish me luck!

This year I’ve become fascinated by Japan and its culture, so I’ve devoted this summer to learning Japanese.
Starting with hiragana, common phrases and words and simple sentences.
I’m trying to learn one line a day. I’m currently on na ni nu ne no:-)

I’ve learned about half of them, again and again, lol. Time to try again and stick to it, now I’m leaving school. Wish me luck!

So i just taught myself the script in
2days
=== ...just have to keep at it to get them all down and packed in my memory. I found a few great sites that have helped me. So i’ll share them with you.

http://learnthekana.com/the-hiragana-chart/
This site is great because it has the stroke pattern, pronunciation and the Mnemonics (easy way to remember the script)...great for beginners learning Hiragana.

And here are a few practice sites where I practice my hiragana
http://www.realkana.com/hiragana/

http://paul.wad.homepage.dk/japanese/test_hiragana.html

http://www.guidetojapanese.org/hiragana_ex.html#part4
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/hiragana_ex.html#part3
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/hiragana_ex.html#part2
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/hiragana_ex.html#part1

I’ll post some more when i find more :)

finally, i have memorized it all, and even though i’m not fluent at reading hiragana, i’m pretty fast!

so i’m doing great! so far i have everything down except the ‘za zi zu za zo’ hiragana, and the ‘kya kyu kyo’ hiragana.

so I was looking up some worksheets for Hiragana, and I found some! It’s perfect, but I need to find a printer so I can actually use them, heh.
But for now I’m just using my journal for Japanese to write them down…

i have a good amount already memorized, but i’ve been slackin’ a lot lately. on to learn the rest of it!
i’m hoping to learn it by atleast the end of this month. i have a lot of other things going on lately, so this isn’t a huge HUGE priority.

My big goal is to learn Japanese, but “learn Japanese” is a huge and overwhelming goal! So I decided to make it more manageable and split it up. Currently, my goals are to learn 1) hiragana, 2) katakana and 3) kanji. These are the three writing systems used in Japanese. I figure I can learn the first two quicker, since there’s 46 symbols in each and there are over 2,000 common kanji.

Cocurrently, I’m going to begin learning basics of Japanese grammar and vocabulary.

Off to the races! I’ll let you know how I do.

If anyone has tips, lemme know. I also ordered this book as an early holiday present for myself. I need mnemonics!

I so wanna do this