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When I’m using TextFugu itself (doing the lessons) I do fine. But I randomly booted up Realkana and decided to practice my hiragana and I screwed up a few times. I seem to always have trouble remembering that a dakuten turns kana that start with an “h” sound into “b”, and I sometimes get へ and く mixed up. To my credit though, TextFugu doesn’t use へ very often yet (I’m about half way through season 2), so that could be part of the reason. Also, I still don’t know them enough to where I can read the kana individually immediately. I can do it faster if it’s a full word. I’m guessing this is normal, but I wanna make sure I’m making good enough progress with it. Basically, I still can’t read it *too* fast and some kana throw me off because they’re not used very often.
I wouldn’t worry about anything really.
You’ll get better at reading with experience.
If there are some you are having problems focus on them for a bit. Perhaps come up with some rule or reminder to tell the difference between them.
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vanandrew.
The more examples you see and work with, the easier it gets. I remember a time when it was very similar for me, but rest assured that it does get better with practice and effort.
Here’s the mnemonics I used for those two;
へ : it’s a speed bump, driving over it too fast will make you let out an involuntary noise like ‘he!’
く : something to do with pac-man
You could also link the similarity of the lowercase letters ’h’ and ‘b’, adding a dakuten means adding a line at the bottom to turn h into b. Little tricks like these makes remembering things really easy. Whenever you have trouble with anything, try to make something up like that.
Thanks guys. Mnemonics really do help more than you’d expect them to.
… More than you’d expect them to? Is that not the entire point of mnemonics? =P
Howabout ‘he’ is kinda horizontal – ‘h’ for horizontal (sorry no IME here).
@Joel: True, I guess. >_>
へ – Think of a mountain, and at the top someone is screaming HEy I need HElp! Kinda cheesy, but that’s how I remember.
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