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I feel like this will only work if you can read hiragana and katakana already.

Not being able to pronounce or hear the words is a problem. Associating the words just with the symbols seems very taxing to the visual parts of the brain. Also using the voice/vocal/speaking parts of the brain seems advantageous.

Not to mention, even if you could manage to remember the symbols that way, it would still be next to useless, since you still couldn't SPEAK Japanese at all.

The site creator has stated elsewhere though that the site is intended for people who already know hiragana/katakana (the phonetic parts of the Japanese writing system). If you do know those, it could help as practice for kanji and phrases.

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