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I’m just about to learn some Nihongo 日本语 (Japanese Language) recently and noticed that I have to learn from the basics. So I decided to at least learn some Hiragana (平仮名) words then Katakana (片仮名) later.

I noticed it’s not easy to remember all the characters in Hiragana, so I decided to seek for the “Brainwash” method.

I believe that if you see something very often, like daily or every few minutes, you will remember it unconsciously in your brain.

So, eventually I came up with a few methods which I’m currently using.

Method No.1: Mobile Phone Screen Saver

I made a Random Hiragana Display in Flash Lite 1.0 where you just download and set your phone to use that “hiragana.swf” file as your mobile screensaver. As long as your mobile phone supports Flash Lite or SWF as screensaver. So that when you were not using the phone, it will display a Hiragana character randomly.

You can download the files here.

Method No.2: Mobile Phone Wallpaper

I’ve also made the Hiragana images for user to set into the mobile phone as thier wallpaper or background. So that everytime you see your phone, you’ll see the background with the Hiragana words in it.

You can download the files here.

Method No.3: Desktop Toolbar & Icons

You can create a folder, extract the Hiragana Icons into that folder then drag that folder into the side of your desktop and a toolbar of that folder will be created.

Hiragana Icons at Side Toolbar

You can download the files here.

Method No.4: Pop-up Notifier (Windows Program)

My friend (Raz) made a program that will popup Hiragana and Kanji when you are inactive or idle for several time frame.

However you would need Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 to run this program.

You can download the files here.

If you have any better ways, please let me know and I’ll give it a try.

Thanks.

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