OK, this lesson in hiragana is soooo damn easy you should be able to get it in ten minutes. There are only three characters on this line! Here they are: Lesson 8 ー や to よ や - YA Looks like a yak. Here in Australia the way we pronounce yak uses the wrong “a” sound, however it is easy to see [...]
Monday, June 11, 2007
Ma Mi Mu Me Mo… Sing with me! Ah… OK, learn them anyway you want, but really, what’s wrong with my singing?? Lesson 7 ー ま to も ま - MA Apparently this is a telephone poll with the wires so you can call your ma. Yeah, I can’t remember how I learnt this one. lol. But, maybe you see it? み [...]
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
On to lesson 6. Lesson 6 は - to ほ は - HA Remember け (ke)? It stood for “keg”. Here is our keg again, but now it has a hole in it. And everyone is laughing at us… “ha ha!” So yes, ha is the thing to remember this by. It can get confusing with the next [...]
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Now we are at the half way mark! Woo hoo! Lesson 5 な - to の な - NA Looks like a Nun kneeling before the cross. This one is so easy to learn because I find that so easy to visualise. Along with the next one: に - NI Looks like a knee. The vertical line is one edge [...]
Friday, May 25, 2007
On to the た row. I have always found this row as the easiest to master. Lesson 4 - た to と た - TA This one is so easy! It already looks like “ta” in English. You can’t get any simpler than that. ち - CHI Picture this as a ball of cheese with a fancy tooth pick. Remember, don’t [...]
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Time for some more Hiragana! I hope it is going well for everyone. I think separating these into bite size posts makes you see how easy these are to learn. We are onto the さ row now, so let’s go! Lesson 3 - さ to そ さ - SA A samurai sword and the cut it has made. (For [...]
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Now it’s onto ka to ko! Lesson 2 - か to こ か - KA Looks like someone bending over, getting a cut from a whip. き - KI A key and lock. く - KU The beak of a kookaburra. け - KE Looks like a keg of beer. こ - KO It looks like a coin. And that’s it for today’s lesson. Some tips [...]
Friday, March 16, 2007
Let’s learn ひらがな！ Although, if you need this post, you probably can’t read that. It says “hiragana” of course. I learnt hiragana through lots of writing - I preferred writing words rather than the characters in isolation. I also used the association method, where I pretended the characters looked like something else. This is from [...]
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Monday, July 2, 2007
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