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Originally Posted by forsberg
The kanji I have no problems with because I'm chinese. Katakana is ok as well because that's just english. It's the hiragana that's killing me. I've having difficulty figuring out whether the hiragana is part of a conjugation, a particle, or a beginning of a new word that's only written in hiragana.
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Ah I see, sorry I assumed you were having problems reading the Kanji (Just because that's what a lot of people have trouble with)
I started to be able to tell words apart after I learned a lot more grammar (Well actually I learned to at least recognise all of the grammar, even if I didn't understand it when I first started learning).
After that, if I didn't recognise something as grammar then I assumed it to be a normal word.
If there were for whatever reason, two or more words in hiragana stuck together, my confusion would disappear after looking up the words (That is all I could do to solve that problem)
And verb conjugations are easy to tell if you get used to seeing the conjugation patterns.
For example, negative conjugations always either completely cut off the okurigana or change the left most okurigana into the -a sound and end in ない.
So if you have seen the verb 漏れる before, then you see 漏れない you know that the ない is part of the verb conjugation.
The last thing I did to help me learn to read, was to read... A lot.
This is how I did it anyway, but someone else might have better advice
