/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[learning hiragana 101 No.]

so how many weeks/months usually need to master hiragana?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20144567
Two hours.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20144567
hiragana a couple of days
katakana a couple of days
kanji half a decade

[learning hiragana 101 No.]

>>20144577
so that means im fucking retarded

[learning hiragana 101 No.]

>>20144584
do i need to master kanji so i can play most visual novel release on jp anon?

[Anonymous No.]

>>20144585>>20144591
if you want to read anything in japanese yes. but I've seen a few ways of speeding it up.

I used mnemonic memorization for learning 500~700 kanji characters within a couple of months (an hour or less a day) but the big problem (for me) was that each kanji can mean different things and it has 3~5 different pronunciations, also I learned by using the Anki cards.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20144577
/thread

[Anonymous No.]

>>20144622
>>20144591
get this book
>80/20 Japanese - Learn smarter, start speaking today

[learning hiragana 101 No.]

>>20144630
i dont have money to buy the book

[Anonymous No.]

>>20144630
Master hiragana and katakana, learn some kanji and grammar. After that, pick up an easy VN and read it with a text hooker like ITHVNR

VN list:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KnyyDt7jimEz-dgeMSKymRaT2r3QKBPm9AzqZ6oUWAs/pub

I began to read visual novels after 2000 kanjis on anki but I probably should have started it sooner

[Anonymous No.]

>>20144585
No, you're just not putting any effort into learning, you lazy fuck.
Practice writing the characters whenever you have a pen near you, and read manga/newspapers/stuff on the internet in Japanese until you can consistently read all of the hiragana in it.
Then once you've mastered it, do the same with katakana.
It's that easy.

[learning hiragana 101 No.]

>>20144674
thank you anon

[Anonymous No.]

>>20144567
>weeks/months
Jesus Christ, the state of /jp/

[Anonymous No.]

>>20146752
Something was said. Not good. What was it? Don't yell at Anon!

[Anonymous No.]

>>20144567
Kanas are just alphabets. Try Kanji.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20144585
Yes, hiragana is no harder than, say, Cyrilic, dumb Persiaposter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>20144567
https://djtguide.neocities.org/kana/
Use the game in the link above to help recognize the characters. Have a sheet of graph paper at hand. For every character, say it aloud while writing it down in one square.

The amount of hirigana characters you will be exposed to will depend on what you allow. First, do the first column. Once you have mastered the first column, cancel the first and move on to the second. Once you are done with the second, check them both, and that will be your review. Repeat this process until you are sure that you have it down. Once you have them down, we move from recognizing to recalling.

Get another sheet of graph paper and write the characters from memory. If you can do that, then you're finished and it's time to move on to RTK.