Hey everyone, my first post - Been following the youtube videos for a while now and after the Learn Katakana one I thought I would share what I've been doing to learn the kana!
The follow are all part of
Smart.fm and use the
iKnow web 'game/application' which is just excellent. Recommend any beginner signs up for the site, get a few 'lists' added and starting playing around (its free).
A few lists (they look just like lists if you follow the link but when signed in you can go to 'Start > iKnow' in the top right)
Hiragana - All the Hiragana, pronunciation and sample drawing techniques.
Katakana - All the Katakana, pronunciation, and sample drawing techniques.
Essential Japanese Adjectives
Essential Japanese Verbs
There are lots more on there but those were the ones I focused on 1st (well still working on
)
Also if you don't mind spending some money the Kana & Kanji flash cards from
White Rabbit Press are great, good quality and very imformative cards. They are also availble from Amazon. As someone pointed out in the review of them the only downside is the Kana cards sometimes use Americanised examples for pronunciation which can be confusing but if you know the basics shouldn't be a problem.
250 Mannin no Kanken &
Tadashii Kanji Kakitori-kun - Kanken Taisaku are 2 DS games that can help with Kanji - if anything they are a bit different and something to do to kill time on the bus/train.
Tofugu has made a couple of cheat sheets for Beginners aswell:
Japanese Language Cheatsheet for Travelers
Japanese Particles Cheatsheet
Thats all I can think of at the moment, will update if I remember anything else
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