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Try our (Free) Tofugu Kanji Memorization Worksheet

Started by tofugu · 1 year ago

I know this was in our news post, but I think this sort of thing deserves its own article as well.

The other day I put together a new kanji memorization worksheet. I think it’s completely different from anything I’ve ever seen or used before. Most kanji worksheets make you write the same bloody kanji over […] ... Continue reading »

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  • Tofugu_Erin

    1 year ago

    These are a lot neater than the ones Fujiwar gave us.
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  • Fredy

    1 year ago

    Fujiwar?
    As for the worksheet, I'm probably being ignorant, but what exactly do you write on the boxes? If you don't mind? Mind showing a filled one? XD
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  • koichi

    1 year ago

    top box is for you to write your kanji as perfectly as possible, along with the pronunciation in hiragana. The boxes below are just spaces for you to write the kanji over and over again. If your kanji is made up of multiple words, you don't want to put them all in one box. Instead, you write one kanji in one box. For example, the kanji for weather (tenki): 天気. Both 天 and 気 get their own box, and you repeat them until you run out of boxes.
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  • fredy

    1 year ago

    Thanks. also, for some reason I cannot login to this thing... :\ oh well.
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  • koichi

    1 year ago

    hmm, that's strange. I've never had a problem, but maybe I'm just lucky.
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  • Viet

    1 year ago

    Do you have javascript turned off?
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  • Fredy

    1 year ago

    I don't know, it's randomly working now and I haven't logged in. :\ Maybe cause I restarted and shut down. :\
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  • kevinnwhat

    1 year ago

    when you say "can you still write this kanji in hiragana" you referring to the readings? if not what do you mean?
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  • Tofugu_Erin

    1 year ago

    Indeed he is.

    So, for example:
    猫
    ねこ
    ネコ
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  • kevinnwhat

    1 year ago

    thank youuuuu
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  • Hana

    1 year ago

    I have a question for you guys... maybe not completely related to this post, but just enough for me to squeeze it in here. Where on the internet can I find a good site to start learning kanji? At the moment, I am a total beginner - I know how to write exactly 10 kanji - the ones used for numbers from 1 to 10 :) I know both hiragana and katakana, if that helps. I really couldn't find anything useful by myself (I'm lousy at searching for useful things), so I really don't know where to start :(
    (oh, book recommendations are very welcome too, but 'm from Europe so I can only get my hands on thinks that can be ordered via the internet)
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  • koichi

    1 year ago

    I would say getting a book is the way to go. If you can find a list of 4kyu kanji to study, that might work too. Books that seem pretty good are Genki / Yokoso
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  • Hana

    1 year ago

    Thank you ^-^
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  • kevinnwhat

    1 year ago

    "Lets Learn Kanji" is a good book. They introduce you to the system of kanji and how they work. If you decide to use this, do not skip through the beginnning section and just dive right into the kanji. Because thats what i did and i was really lost and through me off to a horrible start. But i eventually found my way lol :D but yeah its a good book.

    http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Learn-Kanji-Introduc...

    there it is if you wanna take alook
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  • Tofugu_Erin

    1 year ago

    If everyone can recover from the shock of me doing a language article, I might write something short about my favorite kanji-learning website in the next week or so.
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  • Manuel

    1 year ago

    Sure, why not?
    Understanding language is depending on personal points of view. Any insight on how you see the language can help
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  • chi

    1 year ago

    thax for the worksheet ! i ll try using it .

    incidentally, i think study Kanji in the meanful words better than study the separate characters.Sometime there re some books that they only guide u the oder of stroke of each kanji that dont care much abt the combination two/three kanji--->a meanful word.

    Because I think studying kanji because of a japanese word ( means this word is written in kanji so we have to study it to understand it ) more than only study for all single kanji (like we study all Hiragana/Katakana alphabet a/i/u/e/o...next study in meanful word, is it right???)^^

    so dont never only pay attention to the oder of stroke /meanings/onyoumi/kunyoumi( no, i meant it important) but remember that u re studying a japanese new words and lay them in a meanful word(verb/adj/noun...) ^_^..

    Ah i think this site is ok (both pronouncation )
    http://www.saiga-jp.com/kanji_dictionary.html
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  • kevinnwhat

    1 year ago

    i like this site, basically for the pronunciation, thanks
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  • mmnessa

    1 year ago

    It looks horribly familiar, kinda like the ones from japanesepod101.com...
    I think I'll try this one too though
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  • Tofugu_Erin

    1 year ago

    Rest assured that this worksheet was solely the product of Koichi's funny little mind. It's kind of like convergent evolution, no? Btw, what is japanesepod101? A Japanese-learning podcast? Do you find it helpful? Wow, that was a lot of questions.
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  • mmnessa

    1 year ago

    Yeah, I liked the "Can you still write this kanji in hiragana?" part.
    Japanese Pod 101 is indeed a japanese learning podcast. It has helped me so much, they are great. Not only do they have the regular podcasting, but they include vocabulary reviews, small quizzes, flashcards, kanji sheets with every podcast, and they reply to every comment/question. I think it's free for a week or so, then you have to pay $5 a month...I don't really know the pricing because I get it for free from someone else.
    Yes yes yes, it was very helpful, and I think that people who haven't experienced japanesepod101 should go now.
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  • mmnessa

    1 year ago

    I forgot to mention that anyone can use japanesepod101, they start from the "Survival Phrases", "Newbie", "Beginner" all the way to "Upper intermediate".
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  • クリス

    1 year ago

    舞鳥！
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  • kevinnwhat

    1 year ago

    well i just got done actually using it. I must say its pretty fancy, ill find out in a couple of days if it worked, see if the kanji sticks with me :o
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  • koichi

    1 year ago

    we can only hope :)
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  • kevinnwhat

    1 year ago

    well seemed to work, i haven't forgot the kanji :o Its a really nice worksheet. How'd you put it together? Im going to use the worksheet for really complicated kanji. Since you can write them pretty big on there. Less complicated kanji's ill just practice my normal way. Thanks for taking the time to put something like this together.
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  • Ken

    1 year ago

    Writing it smaller is a really cool idea. Most of the practice worksheets have you writing it very huge, and most of the time, like when taking notes or doing some kind of homework from a textbook, I find myself writing it "normal" sized.
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  • koichi

    1 year ago

    yeah, i really hate those. Still, there is a point to writing them big. You really have to try hard to write neatly, whereas small kanji means you can hide your poor handwriting behind the smallness of it. Being able to write big kanji nicely is a great ability to have!
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  • zattsu-ooru

    1 year ago

    I think i will like it here
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  • lolipop

    1 year ago

    THANK YOU!!!! I was going to class the other day and realized although I knew this weeks kanji, the kanji from a few weeks ago i thought I had forever had gone!

    I'll have to give the link to a few more of my forgetful kanji classmates.
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  • koichi

    1 year ago

    i hope it works. let us know if you have any suggestions.
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  • kevinnwhat

    1 year ago

    lol sounds like me in spanish class. The second we take a test, and finish it, all that vocab goes down the drain :). But then again, i dont have any interest in learning spanish so i dont really try :P
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  • ryan

    1 year ago

    ウワ。。。決まった,私の専攻は日本語です。
    日本語で３年生だけど。。。漢字覚えたない～
    はいよ～使うつもりです。

    コイチさんのミクシは何ですか？
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  • kevinnwhat

    1 year ago

    I see a couple ppl commenting saying that "writing it smaller" is a cool idea. Out of curiosity, do alot of ppl just write the kanji big all the time when practicing it? I write the kanji like once or twice big, then go to writing it a small size, like line paper size.
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  • Toolebox

    1 year ago

    I like this. I think it recreates moments when you think, "Oh that is the ____ in ___!!! Duh!" Better than just the plain old 10 blank boxes across, repeat.
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  • Bohi

    1 year ago

    That's pretty neat worksheet. !
    It covers the points how I usually try to learn new kanji - write down , remember the stroke order, find some silly meaning behind it (the sillier, the easier to remember)... The part when imagination gets really useful :D similarities, use in sentence - totally support the importance of those ~~~
    I'll give it a try with the next set of kanji :D
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  • Lonna

    1 year ago

    This is a cool idea...I need to try it. I can recognize Kanji but never remember how to pronounce *Shame on me*
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  • sade

    1 year ago

    this is actually great, repetition is lost on me too
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  • zoe

    9 months ago

    This is brilliant! Thanks so much. 8D You are indeed one hoopy frood.
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  • haicheezu

    7 months ago

    Thanks! This will help a lot!
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