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kanjichain is a learning method

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Caitlan (Guest) 2007-08-23, 03:40
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I don't know how well that would work simply because of the time involved in memorizing extra details. I've never tried it for similar readings, though, so I will and will let you know- the closest I've done is once in Japanese 1, my sensei spent an hour teaching us a story to remember the days of the week in order. It was a story about a golden tree, which I suppose works for some people. I just did the boring think-of-reasons-for-each-character way, such as "sunday=sunday" "monday=moonday" "water and wednesday begin with the same letter" and "payday is friday" which is perhaps less interesting but rather fast and memorable.
Admin (Administrator) 2007-07-21, 00:07
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This is not new, but there doesn't seem to be a lot on the internet right now about kanji chains. A search via Google returned only about 75 hits, though only 18 are shown with the rest omitted which usually happens when the rest of the results are duplicates or on the same websites.

So what is it?

In a nutshell, you group characters together that have the same reading and create a story using their readings and vocabulary. So to remember the meaning and reading, you only need to remember the story that it was in.

I don't really have a clear idea of how it works best. But you can read about it here.

For an intermediate learner, I think it would be best to create the story in the target language. Yes, I'm sure it could be used for Chinese and Korean too. I think it would work better in one of those two languages since Japanese has so many readings for a large portion of Kanji.

Anyway, I think this method will catch fire in the next couple of years. The author is creating a windows software program to aid and support the kanjichain method.

If this method is working for you, we want to hear about it!
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