so i’m just going to keep this blog up anyway, because apparently people are still searching for japanese mnemonics and ending up here, and hopefully these mnemonics will encourage you to make your own up, cause it ain’t that hard really.

VERY IMPORTANT -READ THIS AND THANK ME LATER-

if you are learning japanese, or any language, please, please, PLEASE visit this site first -

alljapaneseallthetime.com

personally, it must have saved me about 1-2 years just knowing about that method, with the srs, and the sentences, and whatnot. before i started using sentences, i was lost, i was confused, i was frustrated, etc etc. after i started applying the ajatt method, my learning started to snowball, things became easier, and i was learning a lot quicker. i think i learned more in just 3 months using srs sentences (click on that link if you don’t know what srs is) then did in 2 YEARS doing it my old method…..

i’m begging you, if you are trying to learn japanese, or any other language, go visit him.

ok well have a nice life, if you need to contact me leave a comment, i still check them every now and then. and if you put a mnemonic comment, i will put it up eventually…

also check out the links to the right side under most popular, cause there is some good info that i used while learning japanese.

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?

sounds like “show louie”

hey, can you SHOW LOUIE these documents? k, thx.  that one was easy huh?

Idoine Mnemonics

http://www.fumikotachibana.com/journal.htm

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”.

sounds like “easy”

i’m telling ya, to memorize how to say rock is soooo EASY.  seriously.

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!”

Quaal’s vocab list

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.