Hi All,

Does anyone have any suggestions for effective ways to study giongo and gitaigo? I find them incredibly difficult to cement into my memory. Just wondering if anyone had thought up some good mnemonic scheme or technique for studying them.

Thanks,

K

Lots of reading, you'll come across the common ones a lot. Also there is a book from ALC http://www.alc.co.jp/alcshop/kaigai/text/text12.html (the second one there) that is great, lots of example sentences and pictures for each one.

Use the book written by Gomi Taro.
( http://shop.whiterabbitjapan.com/nihongo...VCB7vfCtFI).

There's even an anki deck for it somewhere.

In some cases, the expressions can be written in kanji, which make them easier to remember.

I find this anki deck very helpful: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/292372363

Thanks for the suggestions, all. I've been trying the anki deck already for a couple weeks and it has given some nice exposure but in general my efficiency with that deck is pretty horrible. I think reading will be the only way to go. If that shared anki deck was augmented with nice sentences it might be better.

The book 絵でわかる ぎおんご ぎたいご looks pretty good, I might try to scope that out at Kinokuniya later and see what the examples are like.