kinyuu – fill out a form
March 5, 2008 at 7:35 am | In Verbs | 1 Comment記入 きにゅう (suru verb)
sounds like “can you”
this one is dedicated to all of you out there who dream of growing up and working in a japanese office. kinyuu sounds like “can you”…so.
“CAN YOU fill out these forms?” Or, if you want to get crazy and memorize this one along with the last entry, documents – shorui(show louie), then…
“after you SHOW LOUIE the forms, CAN YOU fill them out?
shorui – documents
March 5, 2008 at 7:29 am | In Nouns | Leave a Comment書類 しょるい
sounds like “show louie”
hey, can you SHOW LOUIE these documents? k, thx. that one was easy huh?
mnemonic info page
February 22, 2008 at 12:40 am | In Websites | Leave a Commentsome interesting information, i don’t know how useful it would be if your bored you can read it. haha, after saying that i doubt anyone will go, but here it is for archives sake.
good link
February 5, 2008 at 10:36 pm | In Notes, Websites | Leave a Commenthere is a good link with alot of japanese newspapers and news sites that you can read online. they have a children’s websites section also.
ni ki – diary, journal
February 1, 2008 at 8:53 pm | In Notes, Nouns | Leave a Comment日記 にっき
sounds like “need key”
just think of your diary padlocked shut, so you NEED a KEY to open it right? remember, the “sounds like” is supposed to remind you of the key sounds of the word, NEED KEY will bring you to NI KI. if you expect to have perfect mnemonic sound key words then you will really cut yourself down on usable mnemonics. you want to try and make mnemonics that will serve to remind you of the word, not a exact sound for sound match (though when it does happen, don’t complain…). if it sounds like this won’t work at it will be confusing, trust me, it won’t. try it with this word, if you say it aloud a few times, even though its NEED KEY, you’ll know that that is just reminding you of the real word, NI KI.
btw, ni ki is used in blog entries, like “diary/journal entry”.
ishi – rock
February 1, 2008 at 8:43 pm | In Nouns | Leave a Comment石 (いし)
sounds like “easy”
i’m telling ya, to memorize how to say rock is soooo EASY. seriously.
gouyou – autumn colors
February 1, 2008 at 8:36 pm | In Nouns | Leave a Comment
紅葉 (こうよう)
sounds like “go yo”
i thought this would be a nice word to learn since it would be nice to see some color outside. it means “autumn colors“, or basically the color of the changing leaves.
you have a friend, and he keeps complaining about everything, school, work, how much he hates music, how much he hates having to wake up early every morning and collect chicken eggs, etc. but one thing he always complains about that really gets on your nerves is how much he loves the RED AUTUMN LEAVES, but how he never has time to go see them in the park.
one day you are just completely sick of him talking about going to see the leaves in the park, and all the reasons why he can’t go, that you yell “ENOUGH ALREADY, JUST GO YO!” Continue reading gouyou – autumn colors…
quick link
December 25, 2007 at 8:07 am | In other | 2 Commentshere is a link to a list of some mnemonics key words by Quaal. it was posted as a comment but I thought i would put it up as a post in case anyone missed it. even without the mnemonic info its a nice list of common words with kanji and furigana.
odayaka – calm
December 25, 2007 at 7:58 am | In Adjectives | Leave a Comment穏やか (おだやか)
sounds like “old yak”
boy, this old yak is awfully calm, as he sits there, chewing his cud and smoking his tobacco pipe. i’d like to be more like this calm, old yak.
hairu – to enter
December 22, 2007 at 12:25 am | In Verbs | Leave a Comment入る(はいる)
sounds like – “hi lou”
you have a friend named lou right? if you don’t, then make one up. and then make up a corner store that he owns. now ENTER that store, raise your hand, and say “hi lou“.
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