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11-03-2009, 02:11 AM

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Originally Posted by burkhartdesu View Post
め -- because "me" means "eye", and the shape looks similar to an eye.

ぬ -- looks like chopsticks and "nu-ddles"

シ -- "Shi is smiling"

ね -- looks like a net.... so you "ne-t a big fish"

ツ -- looks like a snake and two rocks... "Becareful, i-tsu snake!!"

... these were actual mnemonics from my Japanese 1 class.
No offense, but those seem objectively terrible. "She is smiling" doesn't actually differentiate between シ and ツ, nor does the snake/two rocks differentiate them. However, your ぬ one is pretty funny.

If they worked for you, good job, man. I just sat down and learned them the regular way.

I will say, it helped a lot to have ツ in my name when I was first learning Japanese. It was a very easy way to remember which was which.
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