This is just the quick update about the progress I have made with Kana, specifically Hiragana in Japanese.
A couple of days ago, I finally sat down to write these Hiragana characters by hand, something which I had been postponing for a long time. I just thought that, the way I understood the Hebrew letters which is just by pure exposure, overtime I would just recognize them without ever really writing each and every alphabet out on a paper. But the same wasn't true for Japanese, or it's just that I didn't have enough exposure. So, when I started to write down these characters I realized that I already had most of them in my passive memory so it just took me a couple of hours at best to memorize the Hiragana characters. I am yet to do the Katakana characters, which again are very frequent when I surf the net in Japanese 'cos most of the English menu options would just be transliterated into Katakana. So, that's still a to do, but hey, the ship is moving forward ceaselessly. No stalemate!
I have these two Hiragana and Katakana cheat sheets on my wall and I just looked them up every time I forgot the shape of a particular Kana. Needless, to say that I am not really concerned about the stroke order but rather to be able to recognize and to write the character as and when required. There are numerous Input Methods for Japanese and I can simply use the suggestions for the Kanji characters.
Another thing being I am getting really interested into various Memory Techniques, which can seriously help me get organized a bit. It's starting to get somewhat confusing and annoying when I fish to recall a word and it answers my call only after 5-10 minutes or so!! Yeah, the sub-conscious mind works on it all through that time but I know for a fact that it's all in there, the words I mean.
Memory techniques can really help a lot but I find that I need to make them personal and more meaningful in my own way. That's the basic improvisation that one needs to make if one if to really use them. And I intend to master them thoroughly 'cos apart from languages they can be really handy in even day to day life, which can in turn only save time. Time which again can be used more constructively, besides from what I have researched so far Human Brain has an almost unlimited capability to remember abstract and not-so-abstract things, provided it's intentionally encoded in such a way. Memory Techniques offer a great potential for anyone and everyone.
A couple of days ago, I finally sat down to write these Hiragana characters by hand, something which I had been postponing for a long time. I just thought that, the way I understood the Hebrew letters which is just by pure exposure, overtime I would just recognize them without ever really writing each and every alphabet out on a paper. But the same wasn't true for Japanese, or it's just that I didn't have enough exposure. So, when I started to write down these characters I realized that I already had most of them in my passive memory so it just took me a couple of hours at best to memorize the Hiragana characters. I am yet to do the Katakana characters, which again are very frequent when I surf the net in Japanese 'cos most of the English menu options would just be transliterated into Katakana. So, that's still a to do, but hey, the ship is moving forward ceaselessly. No stalemate!
I have these two Hiragana and Katakana cheat sheets on my wall and I just looked them up every time I forgot the shape of a particular Kana. Needless, to say that I am not really concerned about the stroke order but rather to be able to recognize and to write the character as and when required. There are numerous Input Methods for Japanese and I can simply use the suggestions for the Kanji characters.
Another thing being I am getting really interested into various Memory Techniques, which can seriously help me get organized a bit. It's starting to get somewhat confusing and annoying when I fish to recall a word and it answers my call only after 5-10 minutes or so!! Yeah, the sub-conscious mind works on it all through that time but I know for a fact that it's all in there, the words I mean.
Memory techniques can really help a lot but I find that I need to make them personal and more meaningful in my own way. That's the basic improvisation that one needs to make if one if to really use them. And I intend to master them thoroughly 'cos apart from languages they can be really handy in even day to day life, which can in turn only save time. Time which again can be used more constructively, besides from what I have researched so far Human Brain has an almost unlimited capability to remember abstract and not-so-abstract things, provided it's intentionally encoded in such a way. Memory Techniques offer a great potential for anyone and everyone.
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