{"id":26,"date":"2004-07-03T19:29:28","date_gmt":"2004-07-03T09:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.localguy.com\/japan\/learn-japanese\/textbooks\/remembering-the-hiraganakatakana\/"},"modified":"2005-07-08T21:02:59","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T11:02:59","slug":"remembering-the-hiraganakatakana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/learn-japanese\/textbooks\/remembering-the-hiraganakatakana\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Hiragana\/Katakana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"book-ad\" ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?path=ASIN\/4889960724&amp;link_code=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=thunderguycom-20&amp;creative=9325\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/japan\/wp\/wp-content\/pic\/remembering-the-kana.jpg\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thunderguycom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=4889960724\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"author\">James Heisig<\/p>\n<p>The first task is to learn the two phonetic syllabaries used in Japanese. Each has 46 basic symbols (plus a few extras). They&#8217;re not too hard to learn &#8212; I learned the hiragana in about a week by rote memorization. But then I bought this book and learned the katakana in about one hour!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This book is cheap and effective, and it is also an excellent primer for the methods used in the far more complex <em>Remembering the Kanji<\/em> books, which I also describe on this website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Heisig The first task is to learn the two phonetic syllabaries used in Japanese. Each has 46 basic symbols (plus a few extras). They&#8217;re not too hard to learn &#8212; I learned the hiragana in about a week by rote memorization. But then I bought this book and learned the katakana in about one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}