Hiragana Reading Practice Pdf

[Cary Polachek]

Hereare all the vocabulary words that appear in the quiz. Mouse over each kanji (or tap on mobile) to get the hiragana reading. Even though you are just finishing learning hiragana, make an effort to remember the kanji as you learn words.

* How to practice using this page? Below each hiragana sentence, there is a >> mark. Try to scroll & highlight the part after that mark to check the sentence reading in romaji. (The answer is written in pure white text)

* Treat this only as a reading practice, you can totally ignore the meaning. Just try to read the hiragana correctly.To understand a meaning of a sentence require more knowledge in Japanese grammar and is an entirely different skill set than what you want to achieve now, which is to read Hiragana & lock them up in you long term memory.

If you focus on both the word & meaning, your brain will get exhausted very quickly and might get discouraged to learn further.

I just started learning Japanese and I'm trying to understand the whole kanji thing. The book I'm using gives some kanjis and then some exercise of the type: "Write the reading of the following kanji in hiragana", follows. I don't really get them. Like this example:

Can someone please explain what is going on here, what is happening with the extra katakana there is in the word? Are these two different words or are they together. And how do you decide which reading (Chinese, Japanese, irregular) you use? Or, is it by pure memorization?

Let me separate your points... In this case, the katakana you're confused by is a second word, and according to your text instructions, you can safely ignore it. Though you should probably try and memorize your katakana and hiragana readings as soon as possible, since they are sound based and should not be all that hard. A few hours with flashcards does a lot of good for memorizing the kana.

Secondly, it might help you to know that most Japanese kanji use their Japanese reading when standing "alone", but switch to their Chinese reading when combined with other kanji. It's not a perfect "either/or" situation, but it is often true, as it is in this case.

It may be hard to memorize every reading of 男 and every reading of 子, but the combination of those two, 男子 , is a very very common word in Japanese, so you should do your best to memorize that pairing and its reading. As you might guess from what I said above, it's the Chinese reading. As you found in the book, the reading is だんし. If you know the anime "Daily Lives of High School Boys", you will have heard this word dozens if not hundreds of times. It's literally in the title. ^_^

男子 is だんし in hiragana. トイレ (katakana word for "toilet") is not the scope of that question, but I think it was added just to add the context and disambiguate the reading. You can safely ignore the katakana part and just do what is instructed; "Write the reading of the following kanji". If you have already mastered kana, you can already tell which characters are kanji and which are not, right?

You can read 男子 as だんし in 99.9% of the time in modern Japanese, but the kanji 男子 also has a rare historical reading, おのこ (をのこ). In archaic documents, you may have to read 男子 as おのこ. But with トイレ added, you can be 100% sure that this is not in a historical context and the 男子 part is read as だんし. (You can forget the reading おのこ until you reach an advanced level.)

男子トイレ is a common set phrase meaning "men's toilet" or "gentlemen's lavatory". If you wonder why 子 is used here, see 女子 vs 女の子 nuances and What are the differences between 女子じょし, 娘子じょうし and 女おんなの子こ?

Note that by mastering, we mean by the time you finish this book and learning method. You will end up to know 464 single kanjis, and able to read around 4500+ compound vocabularies in 3 - 4 months if you practice 50 new words everyday. Each day would take around 30min - 1 hour.

There are still more vocabularies to be learned if you want to read manga smoothly, but this should be more than enough for a good foundation. And all of the kanji used in this books will cover material from JLPT N5 to some of N3-N2.

4. Learn minimum of 50 words everyday, while rehearsing the previous words. By using Ankidroid or other Spaced Repetition System, this would calculate how many card you will learn each day automatically. Just remember to change the new card amount to 50/day.

First you need to learn Hiragana (you can use our ultimate guide for hiragana to help you with it.) Then you move on to search for a text book reference to guide you. But what book you need to get?

In here it explains that (Action A てから Action B), means that Action B performed right after Action A or to make emphasis on Action A (something that is important to do before doing action B).

The Shin Nihongo 500 mon is a question book that is tougher than JLPT N5 test. And the book actually rehearse points from N5 - N4. So if you wanna give it a go, I recommend to also get the TRY N4 to help you with the grammar.

Here are the questions. Most questions are harder than actual JLPT test. There are actually 3 type of the questions as described above. But I only manage to capture 2 of them or it would be so small that you cannot take a good look at them.

To learn hiragana is to create a foundation for the rest of your Japanese. By learning hiragana, you will learn the basics of Japanese pronunciation. It will also open doors in terms of the Japanese resources you can use. There are no (good) Japanese textbooks or learning resources that don't require you to know hiragana. In essence, it's the first step to learn Japanese.

Many classes and individuals spend months learning hiragana. This is too long. You should be able to learn everything in a couple days. A week, tops. Some people have reported back that they could read all the hiragana after a few hours, using this method. How long it takes depends on you, but if you follow the steps laid out below, you'll come out the other side with the ability to read hiragana.

Mnemonics: Due to hiragana's relative simplicity (at least compared to kanji), image-based mnemonics are a perfect method for memorization. Each hiragana character has a memorable illustration that goes along with it. For a long time I believed that mnemonics were a waste of time. If this is you, I recommend you give it a serious try. It's amazing what you are able to memorize when using a mnemonic method.

No Writing: "WHAT? NO WRITING!?" you scream. I know what you're thinking. But, think about it for a moment. When's the last time you actually wrote something by hand? Probably the last time you had to sign your name on a receipt at a restaurant. The need to write by hand is going down. Most of your written communication comes in the form of typing. Learning to read can be done very quickly and is very useful. Learning to write doubles or triples how long it takes to learn hiragana, with very little real-life benefit. It will be important to learn eventually, but for now you have more important fish to fry.

Exercises: After studying each column of hiragana, there are exercises for you to go through to review what you've just learned. They also happen to be very well thought out, too. If you do them, and you don't cheat (yourself), you will learn hiragana. In these exercises, you should do your best to force yourself recall items, even when you don't think you can come up with the answer. The more effort and strain you put into recalling something, the stronger of a memory your brain will end up building (as long as you actually recall it, that is).

As the first step, download this hiragana chart. It shows all the hiragana (including "variation" hiragana) you will be learning on this page. If you have a printer, print it out. If not, you can follow along digitally too.

Optionally, download the hiragana "mnemonic" chart. It's a handy chart that shows basic hiragana along their mnemonic images, which we'll be using on this page to help you remember the hiragana. Temporarily or not, it'll make a good replacement for the "Live, Laugh, Love" poster on your bathroom wall.

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