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Keyhole is great. I mostly listen to TBS Radio 954. It’s mostly chatting… and can be pretty entertaining too. :D
Ahhh, I knew it had to just be me trying to be too literal, or thinking too much.
derp.
Well, I never liked that expression anyways…
Okay.
This HAS to be wrong. I am not mad (am I?)…
明日の百より今日の五十 translating to “A bird in a hand is worth two in a bush”
Why… and HOW? When I break it up, I come up with nothing like that. Am I missing something?
Jisho and Rikaichan translate it the same way, leaving me confused and wondering.
^ what crumb said.
hot?
Thanks for that. I think I will slow down a bit, so my brain doesn’t explode. ^_^ I actually have fun doing it, but I think if I keep adding too many it will get old too fast. I’ll probably stick with 50/day. I have to keep reminding myself that I’m not in a hurry to get it done.
I usually get 90% or above. The ones I get wrong I usually have to change the story, then it feels better. Tonight was bad though. :/ I think I’ll slow down. Retention was 76% because I think I was reading through them too fast.
Some quick questions regarding this: How many new Kanji do you (usually) learn per day? Does it vary depending on difficulty? I’m trying to do 100 ~ ish per day, but wondering if that would be more difficult the deeper I get into it.
So late! You’re fired!
Thanks for the tips. I guess I’ll start on い today and resist the urge to review early.. :D
Well, since everybody else is starting to.. I’ll bite. :D
I understand what you mean by getting used to seeing it. I recognize all of the Kanji (in between the BLACK MASS OF SCARY SQUIGGLIES) I’ve learned so far when I’m looking at Japanese on Twitter; I’ve followed some Japanese bands that I keep up with and look at everyday. It helps, even though I don’t know a lot of what they’re saying without mousing over the words.
Actually, I’ve learned quite a few words just by doing that because a lot of what they say is repeated (places in Japan, days, months and such), so I get used to seeing it in posts. Makes me feel good to be able to read some words and confident enough to know what they are without having to mouseover. So it does make a lot of sense.
Bah.. I wish I hadn’t of stopped. I could probably be so far right now. T_T
I think I kind of knew the answer already… but it helps to see someone tell me to do it, somehow. Kind of like.. a push, I guess? I’ll take your word for it, buckle down and do it then. :P
You’re right about the kanji section here. I guess Koichi isn’t a robot, after all. (damn) …
Thank you for the push! And thank you despite answering it 50 billion times.
I have a question about RTK. I’ve been reading different peoples’ views on using this; some positive, some negative, but I’d like to ask you people here since a lot of you seem to use it.
Is it really the best/quickest way to learn Kanji? I assume it’s strictly for being able to write kanji from memory and basically know what it means? I’m hesitant on this method because it doesn’t teach you the readings… and that’s really why I like Koichi’s approach to teaching Kanji, because I get all (or most) of the readings along with the meaning.
I’ll admit I started on it probably a month ago, but not knowing the readings to the kanji I was learning really bugged me a lot.. so I stopped.
Do you use any other methods alongside RTK that helps with learning readings (besides this website, of course)? I’ve tried looking up various things, but I never can tell what would be reliable or not a complete waste of time.
Oh, I guess that was two questions.
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