Just to see how easy it is, just read and visualize the following:
fish (Eng.) – Sakana (Jap.): a group of giant fish put Anna in a sack, in other words, the fish sack Anna (sakana).
samurai sword (Eng.) – katana (Jap.): a samurai brings about his incredibly long curved sword to cut Anna (katana) in half.
newspaper (Eng.) – shinbun (Jap.): you are reading a newspaper when suddenly you fall down and break your shin bone (i.e. the long bone below your knee and above your ankle). But, instead of mending the bone, you roll up your newspaper and use it to replace your broken shin bone (shinbun).
nurse (Eng.) – kangofu (Jap.): imagine yourself being confined in the hospital for a long time. In order to entertain you and lighten up your spirits, the nurse attending you suddenly jumps up in the air, doing flashy kicks and punches ala Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Surprisingly your nurse is a master of kung-fu (kangofu).
So, have you visualized the above?
Now ask yourself. What is the Japanese word for newspaper? For fish? For nurse? How about for samurai sword?
After an hour try to see if you still remember. Try also tomorrow morning.
This is but a sample. I haven’t given all the tips yet in doing the visualizations and how to make the images stick even more. That would be in the next post. ‘Til then. Enjoy!
