When you started studying, did you also make drawings to help you study?

16 comments

1. Omg yes! I used to play Shiritori with myself a lot to exercise vocabulary and drew the meanings while at it.

2. Only heno heno hemoji, but I did write a lot more than I usually do, partially out of excitement that I am finally taking the plunge.

3. https://preview.redd.it/e9xg8sy791be1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f7e173e3e77ac90f272ab8dead0595a5e455831

   Not drawing, but whenever I forget a word I write it out in kanji. Must have written over 500 pages by now.

4. No

5. Not drawings, no. But I learned Japanese partly because of an interest in shodō, so I focused heavily on handwriting using a traditional brush with ground ink from the very beginning. If you’ve ever seen anyone write like this in real time, you’d know how slow a process all of this is, and that’s part of what helped me remember kanji without using Anki. I don’t take up my brushes as often these days, but if I come across a new kanji, writing it very **very** slowly with more regular instruments is still incredibly helpful. By the way, while I love traditional writing instruments for kanji learning, my preferred “regular” instruments are blunt 6B pencils, extra fine nib fountain pens, and round tipped whiteboard markers.

6. No.

7. Nope. It had nothing to do with study, just wanted to add to the pile of dumbass jokes and memes being proliferated. Last thing on my mind was it being useful for learning. I don’t feel it was but it was fun anyway.

8. Yup!

9. 😂

10. I like this idea.

11. Yes

12. No.

13. I never thought of this but honestly so dope, it’s giving the tofugu kana mnemonic drawings

14. I just did because I was bored, but that’s definitely a good idea lol

15. That would be excellent for helping to remember it. I am going to have to try it.

16. this is awesome!