Brainwash with Hiragana
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.
I’m currently learning Hiragana and thanks to your mobile phone wallpapers I’m making huge progress
I’ve tried to find something similar for Katakana but with no results.
Can you share your Katakana Mobile Phone Wallpapers please ?
It’s really useful.
Thanks a lot and please forgive my English :p
@Plone
I have not yet made any Katakana for mobile wallpapers, however you could do a quick search on Wikipedia with the word “katakana“, then save all of them down and use it.
That’s where I got my source anyway.
Thanks for your quick reply, Wikipedia was my first search choice as I reconized the police type on your mobile phone wallpapers but the pictures of Katakanas in Wikipedia doesn’t have the romanji translation at the bottom. I tried to add them myself but It’s quite a pain to center the translation at the same place on every pictures because my skills in Photoshop are near zero
Can you please make some Katakana mobile phone wallpaper ? As I said before I know nothing about image editing so I hope It’s not a big deal for you to do this, if it is then I’m sorry to bother you that much and I’d like to thank you anyway for the Hiragana ones.
@Plone
No worries, I can make a katakana version, but you’ll have to give me some time to do it.
@zerodevice
Thanks a lot !