This explains so much about my childhood.
Jul. 11th, 2010 03:41 pmWhen I was out visiting ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
uncreativity, she mentioned she had a flash card program that she used to memories kanji she came across often. (This was in context to her playing visual novels for reading practice -- it was funny because she was playing one about The Only Girl in an all boys' astronomy high school, and I actually remembered the Japanese words for the planets -- I totally blame Sailor Moon and high school Spanish for this*.)
Anyway, I downloaded this both because I lost my Devanagari flashcards and I thought I could try to restore my lost semester of Japanese.
A month later and I'm relearning Japanese and Spanish to go with my summer 'Sanskrit for two months once a week' seminar. (A friend of an astro-friend is practicing with her new textbook.) I do the flashcards twice a day, almost like a game. No competition (except with myself), no real point score, no graphics, just 'can I answer these questions without thought'?
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* All the senshi, except Sailor Venus, have last names that refer to their planet, though different readings for most of the inners, but you can get Uranus, Neptune and Pluto -- for the inners, it's usually also an elemental reference (fire for Mars, water for Mercury, wood for Jupiter, earth for Saturn -- it should be metal for Venus). High school Spanish taught me a mnemonic for remembering the days of the week -- they're all named after the gods that name the planets, Sun and Moon, and they're the same as the English ones, just shifting from Germanic/Norse to Roman -- Moon's Day is Luna's Day, Tiu's Day is Mars's Day, Woden's Day is Mercury's Day, etc.
The Japanese words for days of the week have the same first sound as the planet names, and are elemental references -- so Moon's Day, Fire's Day, Water's Day, etc. You can match the god to the planet to the sailor senshi to the element, and get the days of the week.
I think this is probably the geekiest mnemonic I know, since it requires magical girl anime, mythology and a romance language.
uncreativity, she mentioned she had a flash card program that she used to memories kanji she came across often. (This was in context to her playing visual novels for reading practice -- it was funny because she was playing one about The Only Girl in an all boys' astronomy high school, and I actually remembered the Japanese words for the planets -- I totally blame Sailor Moon and high school Spanish for this*.)Anyway, I downloaded this both because I lost my Devanagari flashcards and I thought I could try to restore my lost semester of Japanese.
A month later and I'm relearning Japanese and Spanish to go with my summer 'Sanskrit for two months once a week' seminar. (A friend of an astro-friend is practicing with her new textbook.) I do the flashcards twice a day, almost like a game. No competition (except with myself), no real point score, no graphics, just 'can I answer these questions without thought'?
--
* All the senshi, except Sailor Venus, have last names that refer to their planet, though different readings for most of the inners, but you can get Uranus, Neptune and Pluto -- for the inners, it's usually also an elemental reference (fire for Mars, water for Mercury, wood for Jupiter, earth for Saturn -- it should be metal for Venus). High school Spanish taught me a mnemonic for remembering the days of the week -- they're all named after the gods that name the planets, Sun and Moon, and they're the same as the English ones, just shifting from Germanic/Norse to Roman -- Moon's Day is Luna's Day, Tiu's Day is Mars's Day, Woden's Day is Mercury's Day, etc.
The Japanese words for days of the week have the same first sound as the planet names, and are elemental references -- so Moon's Day, Fire's Day, Water's Day, etc. You can match the god to the planet to the sailor senshi to the element, and get the days of the week.
I think this is probably the geekiest mnemonic I know, since it requires magical girl anime, mythology and a romance language.
