The Study Thread

[kanjiman8Member]

@ kiai
I’d imagine a few of those books are hard to find outside of Japan or importing them to be quite expensive. Still a great collection.

@ kyle
Nice. Where abouts are you staying in Japan?

@ クリス
A few of the Amazon reviews have also said that about Genki. Nothing too major to make the book unusable though. The price of some of these books are very hight. Genki 1 and 2 new editions are £60 each here in the UK. Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar is £35 and the next two in the series, Intermediate and Advanced also go upto £60.

[thisiskyleMember]

@kanjiman – Kofu-cho in Tottori-ken, south of Yonago-shi near the border with Okayama-ken.

[kanjiman8Member]

@ thisiskyle
Looks like a great place to live. When you go back to Japan, would you stay there again or try somewhere else?

[NeilMember]

Just finished season 2, it’s surprising that just a few weeks ago I didn’t understand a word of Japanese, apart from picking out the odd word in anime, but now I’m able to read and speak some sentences, even if they are very basic ones.

• This reply was modified 12 years, 4 months ago by  Neil.

[Michael LowreyMember]

Jason:
Working on the last bit of い adjective vocab and learning how to conjugate them.

Doing the same. I also need to get back to my genki textbook, I can tell that I am forgetting some vocab.

Speaking of which has anyone made a anki deck out of the second edition or one with first and second edition vocab? Sure could save me a lot of time.

[kanjiman8Member]

Michael Lowrey: Doing the same.I also need to get back to my genki textbook, I can tell that I am forgetting some vocab.

Speaking of which has anyone made a anki deck out of the second edition or one with first and second edition vocab?Sure could save me a lot of time.

Open up Anki, click File > Download > Shared Deck. Type Genki in the search bar and you’ll find loads of decks with Genki 1 & 2 Kanji, Vocab, etc.

[CarlosMember]

I’m about to start the “What do you want” part of the 4th season… thought I’m not sure if I should review the previous chapters instead because I think I might be going too fast … ( I just started about 6 weeks ago so I fear that all I’ve “learned” isn’t in my long term memory yet <.< )

[kanjiman8Member]

@ Carlos
It might be a good idea to do that. You should take notes on each chapter though. That way you can pull out the most important bits and condense it into a page or so. Makes reviewing and jogging your memory easier and better use of time.

[winterpromise31Moderator]

I didn’t do so hot on my studying today. I worked on Anki for a bit. I also studied two lessons on Jpod101. But I didn’t read anything in Japanese or write a Lang-8 post. Gotta work on that…

I did watch three episodes of a new-to-me anime, though! Has anyone seen Peach Girl?

[winterpromise31Moderator]

Today I worked on Anki, studied two lessons on Jpod101, and reviewed a lesson on TextFugu that I’m really weak on. Someone mentioned going through and manually adding the rest of the sentences past Season 3. I’ve been tossing that idea around, though I would want to convert the kana into kanji. Not sure it’s worth the effort.

Now I’m headed back to working on Anki for a bit more tonight. Still trying to dig myself out of the monster hole. At least I’m down to 704 overdue cards! I think I was over 1,100 when I started working through the back log.

[kanjiman8Member]

@ Cassandra
Anki does it automatically for you. All you need to do is type the sentence out or copy and paste it.

[winterpromise31Moderator]

It will convert to kanji if you copy and paste? Cool! I just didn’t want to type them all out…

[kanjiman8Member]

Apologies, I misread your question. As far as I know, Anki can’t convert kana to kanji but it does give the reading automatically when you type or copy and paste kanji. I initially thought that’s what you meant. My bad.

[Anonymous]

Calling out Missing (and/or anyone who knows)

Give me a good grammar book. N3-N2 level. Preferably an actual workbook to go through, not just read.

[missingno15Member]

I just bought whatever book I could afford and seemed reasonable. I don’t really know much about workbooks

the one i got its called 日本語能力試験２０日で合格：　N2文字・語彙・文法 (but not listening as listening parts cost more than what I could buy at the time of purchase)

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