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  • in reply to: How long do you study each day? #40473

    Wasif Asif
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    @Michael: Nah, about 30 minutes, it’s the first thing I do when I wake up :). Sometimes a little longer if I’ve just loaded a new deck from TextFugu or added some extra vocab into my own decks. In fact I’m just about to start the next batch of Kanji so it looks like I will be using Anki a bit more :P

    in reply to: How long do you study each day? #40446

    Wasif Asif
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    I’m only midway through season 4 of Text Fugu. I average about 2 hours on days that I work and maybe about 3 hours when I’m off. A fair amount of time is spend reviewing Anki. My brain leaks like a sieve when it comes to retaining what I have learned.


    Wasif Asif
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    @ Xalphenos, Nice :) I was pretty much the same with regards to the verbs.

    Season 4 hit me harder than expected, the adjectives confused the heck out of me :(  I honestly wonder how some folks get as far as they do when studying the Japanese language. I always feel like I’m banging my head against the wall. Oh, I’ll break the wall eventually through repetition but it takes a toll on ones mind -_-’.

    Time for bed :)


    Wasif Asif
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    Long time no see folks!

     

    Well I hit a brief patch of “burning out” hence my absence for about a month or so. Luckily I stuck to going through the Anki decks whenever the opportunity arose and it only took about 2 days to quickly refresh where I left off. So I dove in head first and I’ve almost finished Season 3 :)

     

    After reading through this thread again I just felt compelled to carry on.

    in reply to: Learning numbers useless? #38991

    Wasif Asif
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    Well I just finished Season 2 and didn’t spend an insane amount of time on numbers. I just made sure to learn those annoying exceptions when dealing with certain numbers and from there I was set. However my speed at saying a number in Japanese is slow as heck, hopefully I will get that problem ironed out soon enough with a little practice :)

    in reply to: Anki 2 Import Issue #38861

    Wasif Asif
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    Ah Kanhiman beat me to!

    This was driving me crazy a few days ago when I was trying to do the same thing, I kinda found out by a total fluke :)

    in reply to: TextFugu Season Completions for Great Motivation of Heart! #38851

    Wasif Asif
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    @hey, thank you :)

    I’ve just started watching Missing’s vids. If I stumble or succeed you’ll hear about it soon enough, thanks for the help folks. Muffin baskets for everyone!

    in reply to: TextFugu Season Completions for Great Motivation of Heart! #38841

    Wasif Asif
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    I followed the links provided and my brain totally exploded. I do appreciate the info shared thus far and I’ll be sure to read over what you’ve told me once more but I think I won’t fully understand this until I start actually making use of Kanji in an actual sentence. I’ll try to memorize what I can with the Anki Decks provided by Text-Fugu and take it one step at a time.

    For now though some of the characters are actually being retained by this sieve of a brain I have. It’s immensely infuriating when you can’t understand something when people are trying to assist you, but thanks for the advice :). Hopefully these next few days won’t result in me having an aneurysm through sheer frustration :P

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    in reply to: TextFugu Season Completions for Great Motivation of Heart! #38827

    Wasif Asif
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    Thanks for the detailed reply, hey. That’s cleared up some of the confusion (At least I hope so). Sticking with the same example I used before, these below:

    入る = As soon as I see the Kanji at the start I know the word “Enter” comes into my mind but the Hiragana character at the end is an immediate clue that it has a different meaning. (So I’m okay with this one, in fact your mnemonic made it easy to remember )

    入れる = Same thing with this one, Kanji at the start followed by 2 Hiragana characters afterwards. The Kanji triggers the word “Enter” but the Hiragana hints at the fact that it’s meaning is different, so I’m okay with this as well).

    But what about “にゅう”, when exactly does this come into the mix? The page states that it’s the “Reading”, so does “にゅう” also mean “Enter”? Or am I losing my marbles here?

    Sorry if I’m beating a dead horse here but if I don’t fully grasp something it’s going to gnaw away at me.

    in reply to: TextFugu Season Completions for Great Motivation of Heart! #38819

    Wasif Asif
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    I’m still awake, barely. After this post I’ll be sleeping like the dead so if you respond I won’t see it till tomorrow, sorry! Well with regards to Kanji what tends to cause the confusion are the multiple meanings. I’m using the following page when referring to the example below:  http://www.textfugu.com/kanji/%E5%85%A5/#top

    (For the record I can’t explain things well to save my life so I hope my concerns make sense)

    So I see this “入” and the word “Enter” pops into my mind, that’s the easy part. What’s causing the confusion is when the “Meaning”, “Reading” and “Vocabulary” part all come together into the equation. So I find myself having to memorize:

    にゅう

    入る(はいる)

    入れる(いれる)

    I’ve got a nasty tendency to get them all mixed up. I think what’s confusing me is how the 3 examples above are going to be used in an actual sentence. Gah I just can’t explain this properly sorry, I’m officially drained for tonight. Hopefully after I get some sleep I’ll able to do a better job of explaining myself, to be continued :)

    in reply to: TextFugu Season Completions for Great Motivation of Heart! #38816

    Wasif Asif
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    Well one of my major flaws in the past when learning Japanese was burning out, by far my greatest enemy….that and impatience.

    I signed up to Text-Fugu 2 weeks ago and I’ve been going strong cramming in about 2-3 hours on the days I have to be at work and about 4-6 hours on a weekend. Today is “Day 14″ and it’s the first time I actually felt the sense of burning out but that’s just mainly down to my inability to wrap my head around the starting Kanji (It’s the first time I hit a mental road-block when going through the Text-Fugu lessons).

    The plan for now is to go through the Anki Decks I have at the moment until the info sinks into this thick skull of mine. I refuse to burn out, this is the first time I’ve stuck to a consistent pattern when learning Japanese and it’s actually starting to become a natural part of my day and night cycle.

    Grrr, feeling sleepy now. But cheers for the info, hey. Always good to have someone poking you with a stick to nudge you along and keep you motivated :3.

    in reply to: TextFugu Season Completions for Great Motivation of Heart! #38814

    Wasif Asif
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    I’m still clawing my way through season 2 (Damn you Kanji!) So for anyone who’s having a hard time sticking to studying remember to persevere!

    Just out of curiosity how many hours a day do you dedicate to your studies of the Japanese language? (I’m curious to see how much of a slacker I am!)

    in reply to: TextFugu Season Completions for Great Motivation of Heart! #38763

    Wasif Asif
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    Finally finished Season 1 which went smoother than expected and I’ve got Hiragana down fairly well. Season 2 started off nicely but the Kanji part has got me extremely frustrated with all this “Radicals” and multiple meaning’s waffle. I think what got me really vexed was trying to import the decks into Anki as the steps laid out from the lessons don’t seem to play out well in reality (Can’t seem to import additional content into an existing deck, all it does is just import the deck as a new one).

    With regards to Kanji the Radicals are easy to remember (At least the first few that are presented). What confuses me are the multiple meanings -_-’

    Fortunately season 2 is moving back towards Hiragana again and the current focus is on ”
    “でした”.

    Unfortunately I get the feeling my confusion with Kanji is going to cause some serious issues later down the line. Grrrr. I feel kinda stupid from not being able to follow Kanji at such a basic stage!

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    in reply to: Hello everyone! #38747

    Wasif Asif
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    Welcome Rowen :) I’ve only been around these boards just under two weeks so it’s great to see another newcomer!

    in reply to: TextFugu Season Completions for Great Motivation of Heart! #38649

    Wasif Asif
    Member

    @ hey,

    Well that’s a bit of a relief to hear. I’ve finally reached day 7 and I still haven’t experienced any sense of burning out so I must be doing something right. Finally managed to get the bulk of  Hiragana into my head (All the characters!).

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