The Hyperloop of Japanese language learning

frustrated by Kanji 

The Hyperloop of Japanese language learning

Ishaan was an above average guy and though he came from a modest family, he was ambitious and dreamed of a global career.

One day he fell in love with Japanese Anime and culture and started to learn the language.

So, the hard work began.

Every day he used to put in several hours apart from the regular studies into learning Japanese which was full of drills and memorization.

It was a happy day in his life when he landed a job and also found some material which would ease his strenuous study as he always struggled with the script full of Chinese characters.

But, that was not sufficient as remembering the structure and the pronunciation of the characters with their meanings at the same time was difficult. Also, the changes of affixes in the grammar known as conjugations were hard.

For a working person it is always difficult to manage the time.

So, he just dragged himself like everybody else and kept on studying harder and longer but the breakthrough he was looking for never came.

At last, he decided to quit the study altogether and forget his dreams. But, he was lucky as while googling randomly he came across the following method which changed his life.

Now, from a frustrated learner trudging with a snail’s speed, he has metamorphosis-ed himself into the joyful extreme rider of the Hyperloop of Japanese language learning.

Why do we forget the foreign language vocabulary even after repeating N number of times?
Because , our mind does not accept the foreign sound readily.
So,what possibly can fix this?

The Trojan Horse system to infiltrate the mind.
Trojan Horse in the form of stories, as human mind is evolved to remember stories unlike information and facts.

The Stories of known characters and things.
They deceive the mind into believing that the foreign words made up of foreign sounds are nothing new & thus, once the mind accepts them,the struggle to tame them and with that, the frustration stops.
 To further strengthen the stories , couple them with a Rhyme.
The rhyme creates a rhythm in the mind with which strong connections are formed between neurons( new information is combined with the old in the mind)and quick memory formation is facilitated which results into Quick learning.

This acts wonderfully with the languages full of homonyms and homophones like Japanese.

e.g.:

市民
シミン
SHIMIN

(n) citizen, townspeople

Can be remembered as:
The citizens of Chicago are mean,

isn’t it queen?

道路
ドウロ
DOURO
(n) road, highway
Lots of Doves were squatting

the road, Gyro

Gyro Gearloose(from Duck-tales)

Learning a word which is a combination of two or more characters is much effective than learning a pronunciation of a single Chinese character(Kan-Ji).

Also,the script can be learned easily through stories!

Kanji for Love

This complex character which is one of the most popular Kanji i.e. Chinese character for LOVE can be simplified and made memorable through an imaginary story as follows:
A dragon insert its claw through the roof of the house and snatches the heart of a child,his mother runs after him , to restore the heart and bring back the child to life through magic.This is the power of mother’s love and mother is called ‘AAI’ in Marathi.

her walking legs are depicted in the image .So, collectively a memorable story gets formed . Almost every Kanji in the world could be learned quickly like this.

Any learner can save more than 70% of his time and efforts in learning
the foreign language by this method.

With 愛

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