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Yeah, I’m at level 2 now. I like it a lot better than the TF Anki stuff.
I’m trying to ignore the Kanji content on TF and stick to WaniKani, but it’s a bit annoying when Koichi throws Kanji I haven’t seen yet on WaniKani into the sentences decks.
Welcome to TF!
I used to live close to Richmond, now I live in Australia! @_@
Check out this thread for some tips on organizing Anki 2 with the early chapters of TextFugu:
http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/anki-2-guide-for-the-ocded/
You can also use the following thread to track your progress and share your ideas/concerns when you finish a season (gain a level ^_^):
http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/textfugu-season-completions-for-great-motivation-of-heart/
がんばって！
What I would actually suggest is that you skip Kanji on TextFugu and use WaniKani instead. It makes it much easier to know which you should be learning and when. It’s by Koichi and based on what was done here with the Kanji. The drawback is after the first two levels you have to pay for it as it’s a separate program. I believe it is $50 a year or $5 a month for TextFugu subscribers.
http://www.textfugu.com/dashboard/
Otherwise best bet is to simply focus on your Anki decks and what you need to remember for them.
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Was just looking through things and I noticed there is a Sentences 3 deck here:
This seems to be skipped in the lessons, so if you want to be complete, you should add this to your TextFugu Sentences deck.
And of course if this is done, no need to change sentences4 to Sentences 3, as it wasn’t a numbering problem it was simply skipped.
Yes you do have the latest version. You are using Anki 2, where as TF shows Anki 1.
Another way to merge decks is to simply click and drag one into another from the decks viewer.
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Aikibujin.
Try downloading it from here and let me know how it goes.
I just tried it and it worked for me.
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Depending on what browser you are using it will be slightly different but the following will look given you have some basic computer knowledge.
First make a folder somewhere that you want to store your Anki files.
Next when you see a link in TextFugu for Anki files right click it and choose save as (save link as) or whatever it’s called in your browser, this should allow you to choose what folder to save it to. Find the folder you made and save it to that location.
Then open the folder and you should find a .zip file with the same name that you just downloaded. You need to unzip that file. Once it’s unzipped there should be a file with the Anki logo on it (gray square with two blue stars), if you open up Anki first, all you need to do is double click that file and it will import it into Anki.
Let me know if you have any trouble with any of those directions. I’ll be back on a few hours from now.
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Welcome to TF!
LOL, that’s one hell of a trip. You definitely have the passion part down pat. ^_^
It seems like you know quite a bit of Japanese already. As such I would suggest that you might want to skip the Kanji sections here on TextFugu and have a look at WaniKani instead. You can find a link to it on the dashboard. Koichi is behind that as well, and it was created from what he did with the Kanji here, but greatly expanded upon and improved.
Also check out this thread for some tips on organizing Anki 2 with the early chapters of TextFugu:
http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/anki-2-guide-for-the-ocded/
You can also use the following thread to track your progress and share your ideas/concerns when you finish a season (gain a level ^_^):
http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/textfugu-season-completions-for-great-motivation-of-heart/
がんばって！
Welcome to TF!
Good luck with the job. ^_^
Check out this thread for some tips on organizing Anki 2 with the early chapters of TextFugu:
http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/anki-2-guide-for-the-ocded/
You can also use the following thread to track your progress and share your ideas/concerns when you finish a season (gain a level ^_^):
http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/textfugu-season-completions-for-great-motivation-of-heart/
がんばって！
Yeah the next day I was sent an invite for it. They should make it a bit more clear what is happening with it.
It was kinda like hearing about a club that some say you need an invite to and others say you simply have to pay to get into. Then rocking up to the club and the secret door has a sign on it that it won’t be open until January, so you go home and then get a message that you can come back and get in.
@_@
It looks pretty cool. As long as it isn’t too expensive I’ll definitely continue using it. I don’t know what the pricing is as I don’t see anywhere that lists it. I imagine it will pop up once I complete level 2, as I currently have access to the first two levels.
It’s taking forever for them to introduce the actual Kanji as they keep drilling me on the first radicals, which I already learned from TextFugu.
Welcome to TextFugu!
Yeah it seems like a lot of us start learning due to anime/manga. ^_^
You can use the following thread to track your progress and share your ideas/concerns when you finish a season (gain a level ^_^):
http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/textfugu-season-completions-for-great-motivation-of-heart/
がんばって！
Welcome to TextFugu!
Sounds like a very worldly life.
You can use the following thread to track your progress and share your ideas/concerns when you finish a season (gain a level ^_^):
http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/textfugu-season-completions-for-great-motivation-of-heart/
がんばって！
Welcome to TextFugu!
Not so sad, teens/early twenties can really be the hardest parts of your life as you are only just getting to know who you are and how you fit into things, which is often completely different than the way 20+ different people are trying to steer you in.
Once I left those type of people in my life behind things got a lot better. You’d be amazed at how much a change in scenery can open your eyes to the bigger picture and show how insignificant a lot of what was dragging you down really is. I moved to the other side of the planet to accomplish it, but I don’t think most would have to go THAT far. @_@
Anyhoo, welcome again! ^_^
If you would like to post updates on your season progress, I’ve made a thread for it here:
http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/textfugu-season-completions-for-great-motivation-of-heart/
The only real benefit that I see between courses and self study is that in official courses with Japanese instructors you have someone who speaks the language and has a basic idea of what they are doing and thus you can practice by actually talking with them and get them to check any work you are doing for mistakes.
The only other thing is accountability, being forced to study for tests and what not, but at the same time that can be detrimental if it’s going at a pace the learner isn’t comfortable with.
I tend to find Japanese 1 too simple, Japanese 2 just right, and Japanese 3 too fast.
Oh I only took “conversational” because that was the only thing offered. I was originally going to go into Japanese 4 by doing an exchange program to Japan. But alas life struck and it never happened.
Personally I think it would be insane to spend all that time learning a language and not learn how to read in it. I suppose it would be different for a Jack of all languages type of person, but if your focus is Japanese you have to learn those Kanji (as painful as it may be @_@)
As for the courses, I made a post about it on this forum about a year ago. Here’s the relevant parts:
For Japanese 1 and 2 we used Japanese for Busy People. For Japanese 3 I had a different teacher and he used Youkoso, and we were working on completely different things.
For our Japanese 2 final, it was mostly conversation based. She had only showed us a very basic number of kanji like: day, rice, person, water, mountain, etc and we weren’t really even expected to use them, but we needed to recognize them. We did of course know Hiragana and Katakana at that point, and we had a paper where we had to read a bunch of questions and answer in Japanese, and I think there was also a bit at the end where we read a little story and answered questions about it.
I do remember that the majority of our grade was based on the conversation part though.
The following are the different types of conversations we had during Japanese 1 and 2:
Basic Introduction
Day and Time
Buying something in a shop and talking about items, their positions, prices, and counting their numbers.
Talking about taking a trip
Buying a ticket for a trip
Giving directions to a taxi
Talking on a telephone
Going out to see a show
Ordering something from a restaurant
Being invited to a party
Exchanging gifts
She then started up a conversation with a random subject selected from above and you had to keep going for the alloted amount of time, probably 5-10 mins, can’t remember the exact time. She also blended the subjects together, but I kinda cheated on mine and kept steering her back to the subject I wanted to talk about. :D
I’ve recently taken the first 3 levels of Japanese at a TAFE institute (think cross between a community college and trade school) in Australia, and it covered much the same things, but she was using the same book (Japanese for Busy People, much to my surprise).
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I had a really difficult time with Japanese 3 as we changed teachers and books and thus didn’t really have the proper foundations for what we were studying. I ended up moving to Australia before the semester was over, but I was pretty close to the end.
Now that I think about it though, I remember the new teacher actually had us use a separate book for Kanji that had blanks for us to practice writing them, but I think he ended up having to focus so much on getting us on track with the new material that we didn’t have time to focus on it much. So I imagine we would have covered a lot if we had him from the beginning.
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