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Like the impending threat of alien invasion.
“More or less everything” isn’t good enough, get back to work!
Tae Kim’s Guide to Japanese Grammar is all the rage among the Japanese learning community; have a look in to it. It’s a free website that covers a whole lot of beginner-intermediate grammar, with lots of example sentences, great explanations (especially in regards to differences in meaning or nuance between several similar constructions), and mouse-over reading/translations for all Japanese words on each page. It’s really pretty great :D
guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar
Maybe have a look at Remembering the Kanji by James Heisig. It’s a completely different method to TextFugu, but you might find you like its approach more. You have to find the method that suits you best.
Ooh, that’s a lot of corrections. But then it’s a lot of writing, and the second guy said he was specifically correcting heavily. How long did it take to write? And how come you’ve been slacking off? AKB48 aren’t going to learn English for YOU, you know ;)
Haven’t got around to watching Densha Otoko yet (are the episodes an hour each or just half?). However I did start listening to the Lower Intermediate series of JPod101 and they’ve been pretty good so far – listened to about 7 or 8 lessons already today :D I walk to and from Uni at least a couple of times a day: each journey’s about 10-15 minutes, so that’s ample time to listen to a lesson (though some lessons are a bit longer). While I already pretty much knew the grammar covered, I learned some new vocab and enjoyed listening to the dialogues and how they are broken down; they have a TON of lessons, so that’s a TON of listening practice :D Actually had to bite my tongue to save laughing or plain grinning like an idiot at some parts; unfortunately it didn’t really work, no idea what people were thinking seeing me :P Would recommend.
I just noticed: this is supposed to be a sticky thread, yet it was on page 5 o.0
Well, there actually is an RTK deck on Anki (I’m assuming it was ported to Anki 2). The Reviewing the Kanji site have their own flashcard system, but it only works in one direction (i.e. seeing the English keyword and answering with the kanji). I used RevTK’s site for reviewing for a while at first, then I used both it and Anki, but I don’t use either for that deck any more – I actually have 2172 cards due right now because I haven’t used it in so long :D
Before discovering RTK, I went through TextFugu’s kanji section, up until about halfway through the 4-stroke section (that’s all there was at the time, I think). It was ok, but I much prefer the method of getting all the writing part done first (through RTK) then learning readings through just normal vocabulary learning. There can be slight benefits from studying kanji readings on their own, but I don’t feel it’s enough to warrant doing it that way. If you ask someone else, they will tell you the complete opposite :P Really, you have to determine which way you prefer, maybe even a mixture of both (not sure how that would work haha).
「こんいちわ」*shudder* >.<
Not sure if you’re not used to using an IME or if you just didn’t know how to spell it, but that should be「こんにちは」, where the “wa” part is the particle は. Don’t worry, lots of people get it wrong at the start, it’s just that I cringe every time I see it :P
Aren’t the correctors usually natives? Are you saying you’re better than a native speaker, Joel? ;)
It’s a book by a guy called James Heisig. It’s a course that teaches you how to remember kanji through mnemonics. The first book is concerned with remembering how to write all the jouyou kanji + a few extra (a total of 2200). The second book deals with readings, but it’s widely regarded as not very good (I haven’t used it personally). The third book deals with the writing and reading of a further 1000 or so kanji – I feel it’s unnecessary for beginners because a lot of the characters aren’t commonly used, and by the time you’ve finished the first book you should be able to use those techniques on your own.
Opinion is heavily divided on the series, but I thought it was pretty useful. It’s more a process of familiarising yourself with kanji and how they are comprised of different radicals than it is about “knowing” them. It really takes the edge off the “scariness” of kanji, and it’s an immense feeling after completing it :D I could go on and on about it (as I have done in the past), but I’m sure you can find out more about it yourself :P
There’s also a site called Reviewing the Kanji that is fantastic for mnemonics in place of Heisig’s own ones, so make sure to check it out if you do start on the book :D
RTK also refers to a website called Read the Kanji, which is apparently pretty good as well, but I don’t know much about it.
Edit: http://www.fluentin3months.com/2k-kanji/
I was just reading this blog post, and some of the comments infuriate me (specifically Vamp898) XD He’s talking so much shit about learning kanji, I just… grrr…
Like I said, opinion is highly divided on the matter :P-
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MisterM2402 [Michael].
Even though the bottom part of 点 does look a bit like a fish tail, to me it also looks like a camp fire, which probably lends itself to mnemonic creation a bit better.
What I’ve never really understood is why that radical is said to be a different form of 火 – it has the same number of strokes, but doesn’t look *that* much like it. Same goes for the side radical of 汗 – it looks nothing like 水 and doesn’t even have the same number of strokes, but is said to be another form of 水; they’re even LESS related than the other two :D
Yeah, that’s why I’m going to watch it subtitled – I’d probably only understand about 2% without :P
That definitely makes more sense. I think it was the placement of the comma that threw me, and the function of て in 決めて. Thanks :D
A practice question in 完全マスター:
「社長じゃないのに、そんな大切なことを私が決めていいはずがない。」「私が決めていいはずがない」is the part I’m not sure about. Is it something along the lines of “if I’m the one who decides, I don’t expect it will be good”? However, the first part of the whole sentence is “Even though I’m not the company president” (right?), which doesn’t seem to fit together with the second part (if my understanding is correct): surely if you’re not the president, you shouldn’t expect to be good at making important decisions, and so the “even though” should be “because”.
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