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Merhaba! My name is Arda and I am a second year high school student that just joined the community with a burning ambition of learning a decent grammar and Jouyou kanji before going to a University. From now on I have two years and six months for it, and since I have other exams as well, it is going to be quite a challenge. In Turkey’s educational system, I am a student that focuses on learning languages(English and German) and foreign cultures, and I have been looking for a good source to start learning my fourth language, Japanese and it’s common on-kun yomi readings of the Kanji. The text books here tries to teach Kanji using strokes, which I find unnecessary, and assuming I don’t have years to spare, time wasting. (I don’t know if it’s the most effective path but some complicated Kanji have way too many strokes to memorize, and I recently realized that most of the Kanji are made out of other little Kanji’s, also I don’t know if that’s true but it looks like those little kanji’s meanings combine and make the bigger meaning, or something like that.) I first came across Textfugu while surfing the internet ran$domly, and after completing free season one I couldn’t waste time to buy a month. I will continue if I find textfugu helpful since I can’t afford a lifetime membership, but I already feel honored to be a part of this site. Umm, let’s see.. よろしく お願いします (Hope I wrote that correctly)
Note: My apologies about grammar mistakes. As you can see, I am also mastering English at this state.ようこそ！
Yes, the complex kanjis are made of simple kanjis. All kanji is made up by something called radicals, which is something that looks simpler than kanji. The way TextFugu will teach you kanjis is by first teaching you the radicals, then the common kanjis made up of those radicals.
If you want to learn stroke order too (many people (including me) choose to omit this, because they only rarely write something by hand), then just learn the stroke order for the radicals instead of stroke order for kanjis.When I’ve talked about languages with a Turkish friend of mine, I’ve found out that Turkish grammar is much closer to Japanese grammar than English grammar is. E.g. there’s nothing called “definite nouns” in Japanese.
The community here is super nice, so don’t worry too much about grammar mistakes. My English grammar is bad too.
幸運を祈ります。
Hello Arda, I am from Turkey as well and it’s a surprising fact that I also joined this community with a burning ambition during my 2nd year of high school. If you don’t plan on continuing your college education in Japan, I believe you don’t have to limit yourself with 2y 6m.Because in my situation, I was able to find very useful dictionaries, text books and classes in college that I did not come across before. Keep the passion alive and have fun with your japanese journey :)
Hello Arda, I am from Turkey as well and it’s a surprising fact that I also joined this community with a burning ambition during my 2nd year of high school. If you don’t plan on continuing your college education in Japan, I believe you don’t have to limit yourself with 2y 6m.Because in my situation, I was able to find very useful dictionaries, text books and classes in college that I did not come across before. Keep the passion alive and have fun with your japanese journey :)
Thank you, it’s motivating to see those kinds of messages. About the education, I am uncertain about what to do about college. Going to Japan for it sounds interesting, but as far as I know they require a JLPT N1 Level Japanese and it is way too challenging for me. I mean, if I prepare years and actually master the language enough to pass it, I won’t be prepared for YGS-LYS exams and my future would be at risk if something goes wrong, because N1 doesn’t guarantee one a safe place. You see, I am not eager about going to a college in Japan because of these reasons so learning Japanese is just a hobby at this state.
When I’ve talked about languages with a Turkish friend of mine, I’ve found out that Turkish grammar is much closer to Japanese grammar than English grammar is. E.g. there’s nothing called “definite nouns” in Japanese.
Ah, you are certainly right about that. Both are ural-altaic languages so the similarities about the grammar and pronunciations saves me from a lot of trouble.
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