Learn To Speak Jibberish

Learn To Speak Jibberish

Learn To Speak Jibberish

I once owned a book that boasted it could teach me how to learn all 46 characters of hiragana (the Japanese alphabet for want of a better word) in no less than three hours. It did, I did, and moved swiftly on to the second half of the book to teach myself the 46 characters of katakana (the Japanese alphabet used for foreign words) in just a few hours more. A quick search on Amazon... yes, here it is: Remembering the Kana: Hiragana and Katakana, by James W. Heisig. I can't recommend this book enough, it uses a mnemonic storytelling technique, and does exactly what it boasts it can do. I remember only fragments of the stories now, but with only occasional use, I have remembered all of the characters.

So impressed was I with this memory method that I conceived of my own short but elaborate and memorable (very important!) exercises, to enable people to quickly learn groups of Japanese words.