「Learn Japanese」 Tips on How-to Memorize Japanese Vocabulary Words (Q&A #04.)
「Learn Japanese」 Tips on Memorizing Japanese Vocabulary Words (Q&A #04.)
Q:
Could you share how you learn Japanese vocabulary? I'm struggling with it and can't find the way to absorb them.
A:
Hmm, not really sure, I just study them the same way I would study new English words. Using flashcards. Maybe try to find or think of a mnemonic device for them. In one respect, Japanese vocabulary might be a bit easier to remember because so many different words share the same kanji. So if you know the kanji already, you can do a process of elimination of sorts to guess not only its pronunciation and meaning. And even if you don’t know it’s kanji, maybe that’s where you should actually start in trying to memorize everything. While not 100% dependable since the characters were created hundreds of years ago, kanji are technically suppose to be a mnemonic device in and of themselves since they’re ideographs. The picture itself it suppose to visually convey the meaning it represents. So check out what the kanji for the vocabulary word means, connect that meaning to what the picture looks like, and it’ll definitely be easier to remember. Also, something I can point out from experience is that learning vocabulary in a way gets easier, because like I said, kanji re-appear in a lot of different words. At some point, you’ll be feeling really accomplished when you see a brand new word and go, “hey! this first kanji is the same as the one in ___! and this second kanji is the same as the one in __! that must mean this word here means ___! holy crap! I knew what a word meant before ever being properly introduced to it! what if I’m God?!?” (of course, a lot of these advantages will be nullified if you’re learning vocabulary by ear/just kana, and in that case I guess all I can say is start learning kanji too and integrate that into your learning of the other aspects of the language)
Another key hint would be to learn vocabulary to a certain enough extent in a easy to hard difficulty. You’re definitely going to want to be hearing the vocabulary words you hear over and over, whether that be in real life conversation or media, so going about learning arbitrary words isn’t too recommended.
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