文法の勉強、久しぶりだな．．．こんな上達感を忘れるところだった！

Sure I guess…I don’t know if they will be in the zoo though. Some came creeping out of the river in my town because of the rain.

マーク・ウェーバー: Edit; kyle does actually say “As long as what you are learning is not functionally irreverent” So I guess there was no reason to make this argument lol

Haha, typo…”irrelevant”.

I was on the iKnow bandwagon a while back but I fell off for a few reasons.
1 – it’s slow – I think the number of reviews per word per session is too high and there is a lot of loading time.
2 – it cost’s money
3 – I was having a lot of trouble with the mobile app
4 – (this is for the core series in general) Learning words that are not related to each other in any real way has proven (more than once) to be very difficult (boring) for me. I had much better success with learning from native material or with methods like ReadtheKanji.com which present the new vocab by words containing the same kanji.

I want to add a note about what lowercasej said about his primary goal being communicating with people. If your goal is to say something (anything) to a native Japanese speaker as soon as possible, I would agree that skipping dedicated kanji study makes sense, as does learning words in order of frequency of use. However, if your goal is long term fluency, I think it’s a good idea to study in a way that puts the most information into your head the fastest and with the least resistance even if it’s not the most common information. As long as what you are learning is not functionally irreverent, even if it’s not common, you’ll have to learn it eventually anyway. I think it’s worth it to put in the overhead and delay short term progress a bit. This goes for RTK as well as learning vocabulary using a certain kanji together even if some of the words are less frequently used.

• This reply was modified 12 years, 5 months ago by  thisiskyle.

I am (regrettably) reminded of Git-R-Done.

It’s useful but big and clunky…HASHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII…onegai

Perhaps due to the smaller number of sounds and the fact that sentences end in verbs, rhyming is very easy in Japanese and happens so often that it doesn’t carry the same weight as in English. I’ve asked a few people about assonance and alliteration as well and they don’t seem to know what I’m talking about.

@missing – I don’t know that what you said is necessarily true. There are many ways to say things in English as well. (no less than~, ~or more) Which reminds me that it always bothers me when I here things like “at least 3-5″…