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I like the word ときどき / 時々 a lot, so name one of them that!
Well to make up for the lack of a teacher/lecturer getting on my case (until I start university) my strategy was to tell pretty much everyone I know that I am learning Japanese and won’t give up, I wasn’t going to give up anyway BUT if I really found myself hating the language all of a sudden then I’d still be too stubborn to give up regardless of my own feelings, I’d feel really dumb too because I’ve spent quite a lot on learning subscriptions and books now.
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Luke.
I’ve heard native speaker pronounce it more than a few times
Weird I don’t remember that, I guess it has changed a fair bit since I did that stuff though.
It’s difficult to get anywhere near a 50/50 correction/corrected ratio because I get on average 4 corrections per post, I would have to correct a hell of a lot to get anywhere near that with 23+ or so journals posted myself.
I don’t remember any decks having only Japanese -> English, have you checked if there’s any more you can enable in the deck settings?
I haven’t studied too much in the last 2 days because I installed an SSD in my PC which then had to be set to AHCI mode, after that there was a problem with 1 of my hard drives no longer working and in general Windows was just being very temperamental. Now it’s all sorted and working dandy, aside from my optical drive not working under AHCI, oh well, I don’t see the point in DVD drives on computers anymore. Unless you have a really bad Internet connection or want to pirate 360 games.
But yes, back to studying, doing roughly 1 lesson a day on RTK and now I’m at 16/56, should definitely have this finished by the middle of February which is the goal I set. Will be free of RTK by the time Mass Effect 3 comes out, that’s the important thing!
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Immortal – Frozen by Icewinds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8atC39ODns
I love some of the production in early 90s metal.
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Immortal – Pure Holocaust: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPS9uZDMwSQ
I skipped the passion list and just chose 20 common words instead, that feels like it was so long ago
I tried to post this thread two days ago but it never appeared after I hit submit, so I gave up and came back a few hours later and posted a cut down version in another thread, now this has turned up…weird.
Anyway glad it ended up helping someone!
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Zelda on DS, uhm….Phantom Hourglass is the one uses furigana, so if you don’t know a kanji you can just hit it on the touchscreen and it changes to kana, which is really neat!
The only problem is I really hated that game haha.
If you have a DS then this is quite cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALGBCKKpJXw
I’m sure you can acquire it somehow, read into that how you like!
If you have a DS, or a 3DS then there’s some pretty neat titles you can acquire which may help with Japanese, one that is particularly interesting is Beautiful Letter Training which uses the DS’ bottom screen to draw kana and kanji. Video of it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALGBCKKpJXw
Full list: http://thejapanesepage.com/fun/nintendo_ds_study_japanese
Also some games use Furigana, like Zelda in the link above which is useful if there’s a kanji you don’t recognise.
Well it has been a few days and I’m more positive on RTK now, I am retaining these meanings better, doesn’t seem as daunting either. I asked the designers of Read the Kanji if they will be adding a way to learn kanji on their own instead of compounds and they told me they’ll look into it, if they had that implemented before I’d definitely be using that instead, but hey RTK isn’t all that bad so I’m happy to keep at it.
I just need to figure out how to split my time between RTK and doing other stuff, I always do my reviews on Koohii and Anki, but I do need to finish off TextFugu as well. I meant to do that after I finished the ultimate lists. I’m doing around 1 lesson a day on RTK now, this can be a bit dumb because some lessons are really long and others really short, I’ll probably settle at 30-50 kanji a day to keep the reviews somewhat manageable, I have around 1600 left to learn I would estimate so it shouldn’t take me that long to finish. It can’t come fast enough!
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