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I’ve just started on Season 2, and have just gotten to the part about Kanji. However, the information is unclear and inconsistent. First, he says, “For now, all you need to do is learn the Level 1 radicals. There aren’t many, and it’ll start getting you used to both more complicated radicals and kanji.” Then he says something about “Know the meanings of approximately 50% of the 1 stroke radicals (and have gone through all of them).” which seems odd, seeing as how there’s only 3 (including the deck). Then he says this:
“Also, don’t forget to keep practicing your 1-2 stroke kanji radicals, too! We’ll be moving on to the next stage in kanji here pretty soon!”
What 2 stroke radicals? Blah. I’m confused.
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Lazarus.
Yeah, he got halfway through an overhaul of all the kanji pages, and didn’t get so far as propagating those changes out to the rest of the site. I reckon start learning the Radicals 2 group – no harm in getting ahead. =)
I’m getting those down quite quickly, but he has things like 二つ which have had no explanation thus far. :-/ I know it means two things (I think), but there’s no breaking it up or anything as to why つ next to it suddenly means “things” and the pronunciation somehow changes on 二.
It’s largely etymological. The つ “counter” word (though it’s not a true counter by the usual sense of the term) goes with the original Japanese readings (i.e. the kun’yomi) for the numbers from one to ten to form a generic way to count things – basically a holdout from Ye Olde Japan, from before Chinese characters and culture got introduced. It doesn’t extend past ten, though, so you’re going to need to learn the regular counter words if you want to start asking for eleven things.
For example, if you wanted to buy six carrots from a shop, 六本 (=ろっぽん) and 六つ (=むっつ) will both work, but if you need sixteen, it’s gotta be 十六本. Or 二キロ.
Just be glad he’s not mentioning the 日 counter (for days of the month) yet. That one’s got some fun readings. =P
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