I recently mentioned my intent to write a book about Teaching Yourself Japanese, well, I’m making progress already.
I’ve been writing mnemonics for making memorizing the Japanese phonetic syllabary (syllabic alphabet) easy. I’m focusing the mnemonics on the American English dialect because that’s my native dialect and I can’t claim any expertise on any others. I figure by making that clear in the text that is the least biased way I can write and it still be effective.
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