Katakana Tips

[amplify]

What is your way of remembering the Katakana's： シ　ソ　ツ　ン when reading them written from other people and textbooks. I find it quite hard unless I find the most reasonable sounding word that makes sense with either 4. Do you just have to remember the preceeding and following Katakana's to make a word?

Another one is コ　ユ　unless I write them myself.

[Blues]

i just wrote out the entire katakana alphabet incessantly until they were committed to memory, but yeah they are kind of hard to decipher and thats giving perfect penmanship. the only thing i can suggest is to find words that commonly use those phonics and adjust to reading the word to the point of instant recognition.

[P_chan]

I had one of those kids charts with katakana and hiragana characters on it. You know, the one's with animals and stuff on it (the square for か will have a kani in it:D). I need to find it again and hang it on the wall above my computer so I won't keep forgetting everything I learned:D

[Jazz]

I usually just guess cause of the characters before and after them but (and tell me if I'm wrong), I think I may have surprised myself and read them in your post as what they are. Did you place them in your post in the order of "tsu, so, shi, and n"?

Never mind I just checked, it was shi so tsu and n. Close though.....thanks for the practice exercise.

ツ　ソ　シ　ン

[Mehi River]

you should be able to see the difference from how they are written.

shi and n are written with more horizontal dabs of the brush and then a horazontal-ish nike swish (for want of a better explanation) that starts under them and flicks upwards.

tsu and so are done with more vertical dabs and then a more vertical swish that starts to the right of the dabs and flicks downwards.

No is written with just the vertically downwards swish.