Literacy Blog: Katakana

When learning katakana, by making the letters into images I can relate too, I recognize them a lot more. This has really helped me to learn both katakana and hiragana.

I have written out a chart and included my name on the chart I made.

Some of the characters in my name I have memorized by the way they look, also, eg smiley face in my name Nancy. 

My sister found me a Japanese video online connecting images with Hiragana and Katakana, but I’m also reading the main book on our school site which includes a chart and ideas for images attached to those letters too. Writing the images frequently help with learning as well. 

Some suggestions for images I just  can’t see so I’m using the image that comes easier for me to see it. It’s not super easy to memorize all the characters yet that way,  but it has sped things up a lot for me. I’m really believing that learning a different language helps memory, I think it has helped me this short time since taking up Japanese.  I learn from a lot of hands on still. I like doing activities in groups and seeing how their learning as well. 

When we were in class and we tried to find the similarities in the katakana language with the hiragana chart, that helped me out a lot. I noticed their weren’t much similarities in the two but that helps me to see the difference between the two. 

I am being to understand katakana better. 

I’m hoping that by the end of the semester I’ll know all hiragana and katakana characters. I understand there are thousands of kanji and that may take a while.