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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Some Things Are Worth More Than Money
The best thing I've seen this week. (even though it's not really new.) (I make them learn the difference between ソ and ン, among other things) With thanks to Kinga for turning me onto it.
2 comments:
Anonymous
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How on earth do you do that? I used to pronounce the word with shi and tsu and see which one made sense. I just could never remember the difference. Do you have a good mnemonic device?
Well, the pronounciation trick usually works and you'll never see an n (ン) at the beginning of a word. Mostly I try to get everyone to look at the alignment of the short strokes. If they are vertical and align sort of to the left it's a shi シ and it they are more horizontal and align up towards the top then it's a tsu ツ. Or you could say low eyes smile is shi シ and higher eyed smile is tsu ツ.
2 comments:
How on earth do you do that? I used to pronounce the word with shi and tsu and see which one made sense. I just could never remember the difference. Do you have a good mnemonic device?
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Well, the pronounciation trick usually works and you'll never see an n (ン) at the beginning of a word.
Mostly I try to get everyone to look at the alignment of the short strokes.
If they are vertical and align sort of to the left it's a shi シ and it they are more horizontal and align up towards the top then it's a tsu ツ.
Or you could say low eyes smile is shi シ and higher eyed smile is tsu ツ.
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