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Did mainly RTK today, I’ve gotten through 1793 kanji of the 2200 in the book (obviously doing anki reviews too). Also have a lang-8, feel free to correction-bomb my only entry:
http://lang-8.com/324124Your avatar….
Hi Index – Would you please be so kind as to change your avatar to something more family-friendly? Thanks!
Cassandra
forum modいいんじゃない。どうせネットだから。
ホリーファック、 I forgot to change the email when I uploaded this gravatar for another site. ｗｗｗｗ
Heh, and what site might that be….. :P
Thank you, Index!! :D:D
Anyone care to say what Index’s old avatar was? :P Missed it…
I finished reading the first issue of Mangajin. One unexpected challenge has been the handwritten kana and kanji. Fortunately there are romaji transliterations of the dialogue and even sound effects.
Another thing I noticed is that some of the stories have a distinctly foreign sensibility. One of them is apparently about some hotel staff who do a really good job. That just isn’t the kind of story an American writer would write. American culture is more concerned with social mobility, so stories are usually about people on the way up or on the way down.
There are “procedural” dramas on TV, which tell stories about people doing their jobs well, but those are almost always about doctors or cops. Compared to catching the bad guys or saving the lives of patients, the world of ordinary workers seems mundane. There are shows about office workers, but those tend to be comedies where people screw around instead of working.
@Mister
I am curious about that as well :p@Joel: Yeah, the handwritten kanji and kana in manga can be a challenge sometimes!
I think that one of the nice things about Mangajin is the variety. Issue 5 is a fun one as that’s the first one to feature a manga with an Edo period setting (IIRC) and it has pretty fun casual/rough dialogue. Then issue 6 has a sci-fi manga.
copy and paste from my facebook:
やっとこの携帯小説を読み終わることができました。
もちろん、内容は全部細かく理解できなかったが、大事なポイントはだいたいわかることができることと頭の中に場面を想像することなんです。何かたいしたことをしたということを感じて、小さい一歩でも少し上達できた感じです。読めるからといって、まだ日本語がしゃべれない状態ですｗ。でも挑戦してよかったと思います。次の挑戦したい小説は、@????? ??????からもらった奥田 英朗の家日和。「通学電車」より何倍も難しいですけどｗ。この調子で頑張っていきます！@????? ???????読み終わったから、貸すよ
300 pages (x.X)
Still doing RTK, glad that I am soon done with it, because I am getting tired of doing kanji and only kanji…
Today I started my core 2k deck just for a change, and couldn’t stop, so now I am almost halfway through step 1 xD Most of it was pretty easy though, and by tomorrow I will have forgotten half of the words, because there is no way to retain 500(I think only 1/4 are new facts, the rest are other versions of the same card) cards in memory after 1 day :P
Also did some studying, and polishing on grammar, and I think I will make a lang-8 entry. Overall most productive day I have had in a long time, but it is also the first time that I have had some time on my hands to do other things than RTK and studying ^^.RTK countdown: 14 days ^^ – just in time for my winter vacation :D
if any of you ever see ‘OL’ in a japanese sentence, be aware that it can be an abbreviation for ‘office lady’…
Not quite sure if this goes here, but just a quick question for those who are leaning kanji.
I’ve tried studying kanji from here and I’ve read a book on it. It seems to me like the method taught here should be the best way for me to learn kanji. However, I can’t understand the radicals very well, and I forget the actual radical meaning but I remember the stories for them…I ended up learning the grade one Kanji’s from a chart I printed out for myself at home and studying them from there line by line. I don’t think this is a great way to be learning them. What suggestions do you have for a method of learning them? How did you learn kanji, also?I started the 日本語総まとめ series yesterday for for the JLPT N3. I bought all the books; kanji, vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension and listening comprehension as well as a book with two sample tests. Each book is supposed to take six weeks but I decided to do kanji and vocabulary together first, then grammar, then listening and reading comprehension together. It should take 18 weeks meaning I finish around the middle of June. I imagine I’ll miss some time for various things and will give myself to the end of June to get through everything and then take the practice tests in July. Then look into starting some sort of intermediate textbook from there. My plan is to take N3 in December and I’d like to be able to breeze though them easily.
So any intermediate text suggestions?
I’m leaning towards Tobira.
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