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Sorry for the slow reply, my definition of fluent is quite loose lol, I can get by doing everything by myself but I still lack the vocab to speak really intelligently and without needing to consult a dictionary for some things, but I don’t need to be startled by being spoken to in Japanese or find it tedious to speak to people in Japanese on LINE these days
I was living in Okayama until recently but moved to Tokyo for more job opportunities, got really lucky and have a nice job in IT and a good salary now with health insurance (most English teaching places use loopholes to avoid paying you shakai hoken), I rarely use Japanese at work so I try to use my commute, lunch breaks and an hour after I get home for studying, I do this every day so progress still gets made!
Honestly I wanted to move to Fukuoka City and could have got a much bigger apartment for cheaper than what I pay in Tokyo but you can’t beat Tokyo for jobs unfortunately, especially as a foreigner… I do like it here though, so I don’t want this to sound too negative :D
I was tempted by WaniKani but I’m already deep into the Core6k vocabulary with iKnow.jp so I’m not going to change to another service which is more or less the same thing but a different presentation
Hope all are well!
I haven’t posted on here for ages because I got tired of Koichi after he started launching other stuff instead of finishing what he started and realised TextFugu was pretty crap after all. The last few ‘seasons’ of TextFugu were obviously rushed out, I got a new Koichi email today which reminded me of this place. He can shove the wani up his kani.
Anyway since 2011 when I started learning Japanese, I’m now more or less fluent and live and work in Japan (no longer as an English teacher, thankfully) so this site helped, but also I’m not stepping near another Koichi project again lol.
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This reply was modified 6 years ago by
Luke.
Kana is super easy. Don’t do this, just keep trying to beat your high score on drag and drop games instead of resorting to romaji. I learnt my kana that way instead of flashcards, I think it actually works a lot better for kana.
I have a few books that all have romaji in addition, drives me nuts because my eyes naturally fixate what looks like English. The woes of being a native speaker.
I did almost all of RTK and called it quits around 1900 in, so boring and I don’t think it really helped that much. It’s hard to say. I think spending all the time I spent doing that on just doing Core decks would have been a better idea. I wish I just learnt vocab instead.
Nothing big, over halfway through Core 6000. Just taking it easy as I have 4 years of Japanese at university ahead, so I’m not that bothered about studying hardcore while I have other commitments. Was already accepted to Leeds University this year which means I’ll be living in Japan from 2014 to 2015. Excited to watch 2014′s 笑っていはいけないSP live in Japan with my Kansai friends.
I do erratic Japanese studying now because I start 4 years of it at university in 8 months, so I’m not that bothered about studying loads in my spare time, I still do it, but not as much as I used to because I have college work to do and then I want downtime between studying. I guess all the ガキの使い I watch refreshes me on certain things too. (mostly kanji and kansai ben)
Maybe around 100 reviews a day and dip into grammar here and there, I used to do loads more but like I said, I start it at university in 8 months so then I can really focus on it without neglecting other things.
I’m still a bit annoyed that I stopped using the site for around 3 months and come back to only 2 or so new lessons, which were really minor and kind of about things I picked up just from grinding out Core sentences.
Have a contingency plan because without my handbooks and Core I doubt I’d be able to say much of anything to be honest.
I stopped writing kanji because I saw no benefit, my recognition is pretty fine without doing that. I’m going to take the writing of kanji more seriously when I start university but until then it’s too big of a timesink, grammar and vocab are more important when you can only spend so much time on Japanese.
I think RTK was a mistake [for me] and haven’t really noticed any actual benefit. Wish I spent all of that time doing Core instead, I’ve nearly finished 3k but I could have done 6k by this point if I didn’t spend 2-4 months on RTK.
That’s million bucks.
Emperor – The Burning Shadows of Silence
I wish I didn’t do it personally, so I’m going with never. ;)
I’m also back. I have had the worst month.
Girls suck. (but not the ones on here!)
http:/iknow.jp or http://readthekanji.com
The latter focuses on kanji, both seem more beneficial than Wanikani to me.
edit: ooooer, beaten
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Yeah I’ll look into the stroke order stuff when I move to Japan in 3 years, until then I’d rather focus on things that benefit me, I don’t really need to look up kanji anymore so that benefit isn’t too handy.
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