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Hi Ivan! Welcome! Four languages, huh? Wow! What are your others?
Good luck with your studies!
CassandraHi Mike! Welcome from another Seattle member. :)
How cool that you’ve taught in Thailand and now get to go to Japan. I’m so jealous. I hope to travel to Taiwan next summer but it will only be for a week. I’m hoping we can schedule a long layover in Tokyo to have time to dash out of the airport for some food. ;)
Good luck with your studies!
CassandraHi Sid, welcome to the forums and to the Japanese language! Good luck with all of your studies. :)
CassandraI think RTK will help. Kiera and I were sitting down one day with some of my kanji sheets. She quizzed me on a number of them, asking me about the meanings in Japanese. Her response was a lot of “yup, same in Chinese. Yup, same in Chinese.”
I don’t know if I want to do RTH, though… Since I’m learning the language to help a child transition into our home, I think I’m going to concentrate on spoken Mandarin. If necessary, I can write kanji to help her understand what I am talking about, but conversation would be more beneficial for both of us. If I was learning the language to be fluent, I would concentrate on written and spoken, but I think I’m going to concentrate on spoken Mandarin with some reading thrown in to help with Anki/vocabulary retention.
Thanks for the good luck wishes!
Yeah, I do want to stick around the forums a bit more than I have been. I enjoy seeing how people are progressing in their studies. I have no intention of giving up on Japanese as it is my favorite language but want to make things easier for our daughter when she arrives. I know she’s being taught English in school but, based on what my Chinese friend says, the English classes are a joke and our girl will probably only know a couple words.
Cool graphs! I’m working on the tones already. I listened to one lesson that gave the vocabulary and said “this one is second tone. This one is third tone.” I quickly realized I needed to back up a step and learn those tones first! Otherwise my vocab will be really messed up.
I’ve been around longer than Missing. ;)
Welcome and good luck with your studies! I enjoy learning languages as well. :)
Cassandra
Hi Sara! Welcome! What is your other language?
Good luck with your studies!
CassandraI had that problem as well. Here’s what I did to fix it -
Click on Browse
Find the adjectives deck
Find an i-or-na card
Click on Fields…
Click on Type and select Rename
Call it NewType
Click Close
Click the Cards… button
For the back template – paste this:{{FrontSide}}
<hr id=answer>
<span>{{NewType}}</span>I’m not sure that’s the best way to fix it but it worked for me! Good luck!
P.S. There is no search option for the forum. :(
Hi Amy,
Welcome! It sounds like you have great motivation to learn Japanese! Please feel free to post if you have any questions about study methods or grammar or if you just want to chat. I wish you all the best! :)
Cassandra
Hi Jack – Your plan sounds awesome! Good luck with your studies!
Cassandra
Sparky – welcome! How fun that you’ll get to experience Japan with your son this time! I hope you have a great trip!!
Good luck with your studies!
CassandraHi! Hiking around Japan sounds like fun. Good luck with your studies!
Cassandra
PS. I’m from WA. LOL
Keith, definitely no excuses! :) Best of luck to you!
Cassandra
Hi Nicholas – The earlier seasons have been revised way more than the newer ones so the new ones do have issues. I was bummed about the lack of practice as well.
I would recommend either finishing TextFugu or finding another resource to study. Don’t wait around for updates as they are few and far between. :) If you wait for updates, you’ll be wishing you hadn’t because you could have progressed in the time you wait.
Good luck!
CassandraHang in there! The Lang-8 entries get easier with time. :D
