Day 4/10: hiragana loses out to Legos
Written on 2024-03-05
Hi, I'm Chris Dawson a dad and writer from Portland, OR, now living in Florida. My book is Building Tools with GitHub from O'Reilly. I'm an inventor, have started several companies and worked for several non-startups like Apple and eBay. I am sometimes available for hire as a consultant or part time contributor.

(I’m documenting teaching my kids to write Japanese hiragana in ten days. The entire series can be found here #10days4hiragana and this is the last post, and the kana project at kana.public.do)

Today my goal was to get the girls to continue on to the next row: the ha (は) characters.

But, they really didn’t want to practice. I did manage to get Norah to work on the ha row. It was a struggle.

To help them find a reason to keep going, I wrote out the words neko (ねこ), inu (いぬ) and sushi (すし). They had fun (maybe?), reviewing those words. I was hoping that would get my son interested as well, but I’m not sure.

Today felt like a step backwards. One of the problems was that the context was not good for them to learn. They had just gotten off their screens, so the adrenaline was flowing, and they were not in a mode to learn.

But, also, I wanted this to be a spaced-repetition practice, and haven’t done anything with that yet. They didn’t yet have time to review the things they have done so far. Tomorrow I’m going to try to introduce some of the prior characters to see if that review helps them learn, and helps them get into a learning more.

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