Mad Japanese Mnemonics

I was reading the “13 Secrets for Speaking Fluent Japanese” the other day. There’s one chapter listing some really silly mnemonics, and it was a lot of fun just reading them.

Here are some of them:

• 武士(ぶし) : samurai, warrior
  • “True samurai were so virile that their battle-toned bodies where absolutely covered in a bushy mat of hair!”
• 肥満(ひまん) : obesity
  • “A He-man may be a muscled Greek god in his youth, but when he gets old he’sjust going to be an obese mass of blubber.”
• ぐるぐる : round and round
  • “The fat round guru levitated and then span around and around.”

I also just recently found a blog on Japanese mnemonics here. It should be quite helpful for constructing my list of Japanese vocabulary to learn.

On another note, I just learned from babelhut of a vocabulary learning method called the “Input Method” where you learn vocabulary from drilling sentences…tons of them. According to this old post, he seems to have pretty good success with this method, so I might give it a shot as well.

Anybody else have tried the “Input Method”?

[ETA: More info on this method can be found at All Japanese All The Time. Here are some related posts:

• 10,000 Sentences: Input before Output
• Does Input Really Work
• Sentence-Picking in Action: Making Lemons into Lemonade
  
• 10,000 Sentences: Why
• 10,000 Sentences: How
• 10,000 Sentences: Where
• 10,000 Sentences: More on What Sentences to Learn
• Sentence Starter Pack 1
• Sentence Starter Pack2
• Sentence Starter Pack 3
• Sentence Starter Pack 4
• Sentence Starter Pack 5

There! Enough research for today. Until next time!]