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I renamed the deck after downloading it and can’t remember what the real name was. Tried to find it among shared decks again, but couldn’t. Although it has so many facts it’s only 5 MB in size, so I can mail it to you if you’d like.
Great topic! I was just browsing through plugins and shared decks a few days ago. Just as you said, finding a useful deck can really be hard.
I have only Japanese plugin installed, and only four decks:
- One deck with sentences and one with vocabulary (from those sentences). I made both of them myself. Sentences deck has a sentence on front, furigana and audio on back. Vocab deck has audio (or hiragana) on front, kanji on back.
- RTK1+3 deck with keywords linked to Reviewing the Kanji, which is very useful, because I don’t have to copy-paste stories into Anki.
- Katakana deck <- this is the deck I stumbled upon while browsing. It has 4500 cards! I use it for katakana reading practice. I just wish it had romaji field :(I'm at Season 4 now, but I'm also using iKnow, going through Core 1000 at the moment (this is where my sentences deck comes from).
Also, I've read the pdf on Birkenbihl method. It's really interesting. Section on passive listening and shaddow speaking gave me a few new ideas I will implement in my studies. Thanks!
Hello and welcome!
I think the name of the fish is Fugu… or at least that’s what I call it. Studio Ghibli works are also among my favorites, I became really interested in anime only after I’ve seen Princess Mononoke.
As far as Japanese goes, I think that with TextFugu and RTK you are well on your way to success. Not to mention you have a friend to practice with and, eventually, travel to Japan. Lucky you!
Good luck with studying!
に has a bit wider use than へ, which is used only for locations. You can compare it with “to” and “at” in English (but it’s not a literal translation of those particles, just a comparison of usage).
For example, you can use に in sentences like:
Go to Tokyo.
Give book to someone.But へ is only used for locations:
Go at a restaurant.Also, へ is read え, not the way it’s supposed to be read.
2000! O_O
Wow! My rough estimate was around 500 members, forever and monthly combined. This place is far more popular than I ever imagined (^-^)b
As for the active members count, maybe you could count the number of page views per month for certain pages; e.g. in the beginning, middle and the end of each season. It would be interesting indeed to know those numbers.
Yup, I just looked into one of the books intended for beginners, but could only read the first sentence (made me feel a bit proud, though). I think I’ll skip this round and try again in April or whenever the second round starts. Thanks for sharing this!
I was most interested in reading material resources, but it’s password protected -.-
Is it safe now to post my goals without being accused of having New Year resolutions? XD
I plan to:
- Finish Core 1000
- Be able to read katakana fluently. Hiragana and kanji (yay!) are not the problem, but there is not much opportunity to read katakana, so I’m still struggling with every word in I come across.
- Listen to more of Japanese radio. I know it would be the best to keep it running in background all the time, but it really messes up my concentration while doing… well, anything except playing Tetris :S But I will try it for a month to see if I can get used to it.@ Mister: Method is quite simple – learn the kanji with RTK, review it through vocab. I finished RTK in September, I won’t delete any kanji I learned just “yesterday”. I wouldn’t be doing this if I were still going through RTK, that’s why I asked a question “for those who are done with RTK”. But with time everyone has to be able to write down kanji from vocab and not from keyword, so it’s better to start practicing that sooner than later.
@ Mister: I’m definitely deleting them, I was just wondering if someone else did it. Maybe I’m overseeing something, but since my vocab reviews include writing down kanji, it should be the same… Also, now I’m curious as to how long will it take me to completely delete the RTK deck :)) So far I have 386 unique kanji in my vocab deck.
A question for those who are done with RTK: do you delete a kanji from RTK Anki deck when you learn the same kanji as a part of vocab in another deck?
Like every teacher in the world, after I fail all my students this semester, I’ll be spending holidays thinking of the ways I can make their lives hell next semester.
Nah, actually I’ll tie some loose ends I had after finishing RTK, pick up my pace with iKnow sentences etc.Good luck with finding the job ラリサ and Joel!
Try RTK first. If you don’t like it, you can always switch back to TextFugu. If you do like it, you’ll end up learning 2000+ kanji, which is not a bad thing at all :))
As far as the method goes, TF and RTK are pretty much the same, they break kanji apart into radicals (TF) or primitives (RTK) and invent stories to “glue” them back together. So, you won’t be damaged if you try TF first XD
“Thi” was a suggestion from Japanese friend. He says its’ a “rule for writing”, even gave me a chart: http://www.hachinohe.ed.jp/hens/ad/keyboard/keyboard05.htm
There are “dhi” and “twi” combinations in the chart, so I guess “thi” has little to do with pronunciation, it’s more like all other logical combinations (ti, tei) are already taken.
Thank you all!
“texi” and “thi” are combinations that work.Joel, I mentioned the site, because I think this is site specific setting. I practice at my workplace sometimes, and it doesn’t have any IME (let alone Japanese) installed. Sites like RealKana, iKnow, ReadTheKanji and such don’t require Japanese IME to work, only the correct letter combination. What they think is “correct combination”, that is XD
