Best way to remember Hiragana
 

Can someone give me some tips on how to remember the Hiragana table?

the hiragana song^^
its be aesier to hear the song tho. ill record it and put it on youtube

Flash Cards work pretty good.

They way I learned Hiragana was to practice, practice, practice. The more you write them and read them the better you will remember them.
When I first started learning Japanese I wrote lines of the characters, much like an elementary school student would learn how to write english characters.
My Japanese Professor uses pictures that somehow incorporate the Hiragana or Katakana character in them (for example the Hiragana for NU looked like a noodle). This seemed to work for a fair amount of people so maybe you could try finding something like that.

I recommend writing the characters because when you do, you are not only learning how to write them, but you are also learning how to recognize them at the same time.

practice, practice, practice!
 

if ur a mnemonics person, try
Memorising the Hiragana and Katakana - Contents
but i find mnemonics actually make my life harder sometimes.

most importantly, write all freakin' 46 of them like at least 5 times everyday or at least 20 times each week. Don't forget to try reading to improve character recognition which also improves how you write. i notice that the more i write, the better my handwriting (meaning that it doesn't look all americanized):)

I agree with the above post - writing is the key. Don't just look at the letters and try to memorize them, actually write them over and over. I learned Hiragana in two weeks and Katakana in another two weeks just by continuously writing them and by using flash cards. My Japanese instructor also used little pictures or stories to go along with each letter, like the letter for 'he' (へ) would be "haystack". Silly, but it works.

The same works for kanji; I find that writing them helps much more than just looking at them.

Thanks Riceballs ^^

Wheee I remember I had flashcards somewhere, I'll have a good look for em

i learn a new line from the table each week..

so far i've learnt the vowels, k's and s's :D

The website About.com always has some helpful techniques in learning how to write in Japanese. Here is a window from the site

How To Write Hiragana

^^I actually learnt to write some Hiragana off that website, and I'm learning French off there as well.

:eek: !!!!!!!!!!!!!

i was only just using this really good site last night - it showed you which order the strocks should be done and the direction they should go etc

but when i just went to look for it to put on here - its gone!! since last night?! hmm...

anyway, heres another one that i think is pretty useful - alot of you may already know of it, i think its pretty popular

TheJapanesePage.com - Learn Japanese for FREE -- How to Wow! with language, culture, kanji, and grammar

i just this minute found this site, it makes up for the loss of the other one :P

Hiragana symbols: The history and use of Japanese hiragana characters with useful hiragana-related links.

:)

as i said, i posted it on utube! heres ya go guys!

btw,MY SINGING IS CRAPOLA. u have been warned.

YouTube - Hiragana Song by:Sisson Sensei(?)

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It helps to just practice writing and saying out loud each line 5 or so times, until you memorize it. A line=5 characters beginning with each sound (Ka, ki, ku, ke, ko or na, ni, nu, ne, no) With enough practice, they will stick. It will also help to study it with friends, and you can quiz each other. :3

i learned it because i wrote them again and again and wrote my own textes, turned romanji textes into hiragana text etc

This is how I learned Katakana.
This is how I WILL learn Hiragana.

This helped me i learned kana is just over 2 1/2 weeks. Everytime one would flash on the screen i would write it first to get use to it then answer.

Hiragana and Katakana Practice

You learn to write Japanese the same way you learn to ride a bicycle. Not by learning "the theory" or watching it get done by someone else, but by repeatedly performing the action over and over until you can do it without thinking.

Think about it this way: Do you have to think about each pencil stroke involved when you make a lowercase g?

Hiragana is super important to remember early.
I recently wrote a post about that on my blog. Some resources linked at the bottom as well.

Do you know your kana?

I learned by writing them over and over again and trying to use them as often as possible. However, I think there are better methods. "Remember The Kana" is a great book that uses stories to make remembering each kana easy.

I memorized both Hiragana and Katakana by staring at a chart for about 3 hours.

All these flash cards and cute little games and whatnot are unnecessary.

By using it, simple. Buy a J-Phone or Docomo and experiment :)