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  • November 8, 2012 at 8:52 am #37158

    eru777
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    Since many of the words in Japanese are not necessarily similar with any Romance language equivalents, it can be a pain to remember some of them . There are some words that I just can’t seem to learn unless I have a silly story as its background .

    I’m going to start with my own story about the word ぐうぜん . You guys can come here and add your own word stories and maybe the best ones will make it into textfugu one day .

    I might pop in and post more than one here if I remember .

    ぐうぜん- accident

    http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e310/Morgoth_Bauglir/ty.jpg

    Way of remembering it : A goose’s end was trapped in a aeroplane motor causing it to fall (accidentally) = accident
    Goose’s end – >ぐうぜん

     

    You can put requests for words you can’t think stories for here too and maybe someone will help you .

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    Hey! Lip them? Lip them? What?
    November 8, 2012 at 12:18 pm #37164

    vanandrew
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    The stories/hints I come up with for words/kanji are usually obscene….

    November 9, 2012 at 9:32 am #37171

    eru777
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    練習する　「かんしゅする」to practice

    Any mnemonics ?

    Hey! Lip them? Lip them? What?
    November 9, 2012 at 3:49 pm #37172

    Phillip
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    Hmm… have you ever heard a person with a Spanish accent pronounce “you” as “ju” or something similar sounding? Well think of it as “can (かん) ju (じゅ) do” (the due comes form the する) <insert activity>. Say “can ju do” 50 push ups  If I practice my push ups I can! Does that help? :)

    November 9, 2012 at 6:50 pm #37173

    KiaiFighter
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    actually 練習する is れんしゅう so try not to remember it as かんしゅう ;)

    November 9, 2012 at 11:41 pm #37174

    eru777
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    Thanks everybody, you both helped :)

    Hey! Lip them? Lip them? What?
    November 10, 2012 at 4:20 am #37175

    マーク・ウェーバー
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    1. find the word you want to learn

    2. preferably go to a J-J dic and look it up

    3. add the word to anki

    4. study

     

    November 10, 2012 at 12:29 pm #37181

    Astralfox
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    れんしゅう… rent shoe… it takes a lot of practice to rent shoes. Ya know, rented shoes are so discusting you might pull such a face it scares off the person behind the counter. It takes practice to rent shoes sucsesfully.

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