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General Discussion / Re: [Yahoo~] Things to totally thank Kyouko for today thread. (HAPPY THREAD!)
« on: May 12, 2012, 07:51:31 pm »So far, I have an almost solid grasp of Hiragana, but Katakana just beats my head in trying to remember it. And they're just the same thing with different characters, so it's especially maddening in that regard. I heard Kanji has something like 1000 characters, and that Japanese kids need to know them in order to graduate middle school. That's a scary scary thought.Something that helped me was associating the abstract forms with real objects. Ka in Katakana kinda looks like the tip of a katana, for example. And for Na, kinda reminded me of a stylized flying gnat (gNAt).

For the woman/man problem, check out some FF6 sprite sheets, specifically Edgar and Terra. Look close, and note the subtle visual cues in their pixelated forms that make your brain go "DAT'S WOMAN" and "DAT'S MAN" despite the fact they're so small.
