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  • in reply to: Kanji before Katakana – Home come? :) #27140

    Joel makes a good point, actually.

    in reply to: Let's play a game! #27139

    六本木 (ろっぽんぎ) – Are we allowed place names? :P
    浪人 (ろうにん) – If we’re not allowed them haha.

    in reply to: The Study Thread #27138

    @Hattori: It’s taken you 3 months to do C1k? It’s taken me *6* months and I ended up knowing around half of them XD Going pretty slowly, I guess. However, last night I did 50 new cards – I wouldn’t normally do so many, but around 30 of them were ones I already knew :D

    It’s actually quite nice seeing how many words I remember just from having seen them in various places (usually my textbook), as opposed to specifically “studying” them :)

    @Gigatron: Wait, so are you giving up with Japanese then? :/

    in reply to: The Study Thread #27115

    @Hattori: I started Core2k last summer I think, but I was going kinda slow after starting uni and being busy all the time. Plus I wait for reviews to die down before I do new cards. I’m picking up the pace a little this semester though, doing new cards slightly more often. I’m at 1100 now, 900 to go. Though once I’ve finished those 900 left, I’ll just go straight on to the Core 6k ones, so it’s more like “1100 down, 4900 to go!” :D Probably won’t finish Core 6k for another couple of years at least.

    @Elenkis: How long have you been doing the Core series, do you think?

    in reply to: The Study Thread #27108

    @Hattori: Hey, I’m around the 1k mark as well :) Though my ordering is different, I think.

    Some of the Core xK sentences are just terrible. Quite a few I’ve seen are just 「彼は[vocab]です」or 「彼はとても[vocab]ですね」 or 「[vocab]が大好きです」, which is pretty pointless haha. Not great examples of the words in question.
    I just add new words once my reviews drop down a bit. I don’t do x per day or x per week, just whenever I feel I’m able.
    One thing I don’t like about the Core deck/s is the amount of business-/politics-related words. I don’t think I’m at the stage where I’ll actually need to know them. I just learn them anyway, I guess, but I think I’ll need to filter a lot of the 6k deck for usefulness (I’ve heard there is a lot of guff in there).

    OT: http://oi42.tinypic.com/35mgq36.jpg
    One year ago today/yesterday, February the 24th, I finished the main body of RTK 1 (minus the supplement kanji). These are my stats on koohii now :) Feels weird thinking how long ago it was…

    in reply to: Kanji before Katakana – Home come? :) #27107

    Katakana is also used for scientific words – including plant and animal names, even ones that already have associated kanji – emphasis (like italics), stylistic choice, and some words even have some kind of cultural significance when katakanised in certain places, or so I’ve heard. Katakana is reasonably important, and I just went straight onto it after doing hiragana, but it’s not necessary. It’s certainly nowhere near as important as kanji anyway. You’re going to be learning kanji for a while, so no matter which you start first, you’re going to finish katakana first. I think the reason for starting kanji before katakana is that it’s best to start kanji as soon as possible, really, just because it’s so important. But if you choose to get katakana “out of the way” first, it’d be fine.

    Basically, it’s your choice which you start first :) It’s been more than a year since I was at that stage with TextFugu, and the lessons are all different now, but I imagine there’s only a very short gap in-between the lesson where you start kanji and the lesson where you start/finish katakana.

    in reply to: Woah! Slow-down! #27092

    RTK to learn how to write; vocab to learn how to read. Don’t worry about how a word *looks* like it *should* be read, just learn how it *is* read and everything should be fine. You’re probably not going to figure how to read 今日 on your own just from learning a few readings, so just learn it as a single entity. I’m not really sure why you find the on-yomi fine but the kun-yomi somehow much harder – if you took away the names “on” and “kun”, and just lumped them all under “pronunciations”, you’d still be learning the same things, nothing would change.

    in reply to: The Coffee House #27084

    D’awwww :3

    in reply to: Let's play a game! #27083

    以上 (いじょう)

    in reply to: The Coffee House #27026

    @missingno15: Ah, that was hilarious! :D Was there something in particular about the video that spurred you on to try learning Japanese?

    The video that got me thinking about Japanese was this one: http://youtu.be/V2wzUuGm7yw
    He advertises TextFugu at the end, so I had a look at it and thought “Hey, this sounds kinda cool! :)”.
    (Actually, events may have played out in a slightly different order; maybe the video didn’t come first, I can’t remember what happened actually haha. It lead me on to the textbook at least.)

    in reply to: My Pronunciation #27024

    It seems kinda silly getting pronunciation tips from other learners, no? :P The best way to work on your pronunciation is to imitate native Japanese speakers whenever you can. That’s just my feeling anyway :)

    in reply to: The Study Thread #27023

    @winterpromise: Next time you see that card, you’ll be at least semi-fluent, right? ;D I’d actually imagine that you’d wanna stop reviewing that deck before 2.7 years are up – you’ll be at a stage where you won’t need it any more long before then, I think :) Just out of curiosity, which kanji was it? It’s coming up for a year since I finished the main body of RTK now (minus the supplement), and I’ve *still* not go every card in the last box on koohii XD I finished on my birthday last year, and it’s my birthday on Friday – 2 things to celebrate I guess :P

    OT: I watched an episode of The Simpsons in Japanese over on ニコニコ動画, and while I can’t understand 98.742% of it, because the show uses a lot of visual comedy (and I can remember the gist from watching it in English) it was still pretty good :D Bart and Lisa’s voice actors sound pretty close to the English ones :)

    Also, I’m about halfway through Japanese for Busy People III and have 926 “fresh” cards to review in the Core 2000 deck on Anki :D Will still be a while before I make it on to Harry Potter, but I’m getting there :)

    in reply to: Let's play a game! #27022


    みどり

    “Normally you would use the を particle with a verb” – don’t think of it as the “verb” particle, think of it as the “object” marker (or something similar). You’re right that it’s used along with verbs, but so are は and が and so forth. Generalising though, I’d say を is used for transitive verbs while が is the main particle for intransitive verbs. Compare「かれ を おこします」(I woke him up) and「かれ が おきます」(He woke up).

    in reply to: The Study Thread #26728

    @missingno15: How long does it take to make those cards? Do you include audio? I’m way off making J-J cards, but I’m just curious. And finally, just as a general question, how many Japanese words do you think you know by now? :D You’ve been sentence mining as long as I can remember.

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