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Haha, oops. I copied the text because I had no IME on the computer I posted from, then forgot to remove the お, doh.
Only downside about the SNES is that I think the Japanese units use a different voltage, it’ll likely fry if you use it in the UK. If you have a voltage converter you should be okay, but they are kinda expensive if I recall right. It’s possible you could buy a different adaptor that would work with it (and in the UK) I can’t remember if the SNES has its own built in power supply or not, if it gets all its power from just the plug adaptor you should be able to just buy a spare, if its the former there’s not really much you can do unless you have a converter.
I am studying the kanji and vocab for JLPT4, but I’m not taking it in two weeks, I’ll do it next year instead.
The JLPT website has some sample questions on there, maybe that can give you an idea of what you need to study for.
If it is just Windows that is giving you grief and not a problem with your computers hardware you could put a bootable version of Linux on a pen drive and use Anki from there, it won’t help you get your decks back but at least your computer would be usable. Although…if you are going to do that you might as well just reinstall Windows entirely, you could use Linux to rescue any files off your computer, then wipe everything and re-install Windows.
Whenever somebody says greetings and salutations I have flashbacks of Demolition Man.
That can’t be good.
and welcome!
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Luke.
Oh yeah that おおいしい was a typo, oops!
Just keeping up with Anki reviews, doing a fair amount on Read the Kanji and have been making up new sentences ready to post on Lang-8, it’s all stuff I’ve gone over in the book missingno recommended, here’s a few of them:
おおしいパイや葡萄あります。
ひこうきの後ろに車があります。
図書館の中にだれかいますか？
学校の中にだれがいますか？生徒か？It’s nice being able to write more descriptive sentences now!
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Done with the JLPT4 deck on Read the Kanji now, but only halfway through the actual kanji vocab. Think I’ll have that mostly finished by next week, then I’m gonna enable the JLPT3 deck in addition.
I prefer using Read the Kanji over Anki (for kanji) because it’s a bit more involving since you have to type the reading of each word/kanji, although some of the Anki decks have required you to type too.
…I also really enjoy the colourful charts it gives you to show your strength for each kanji and kanji word.
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I wouldn’t say it’s that basic, it sets you up to start making more complex sentences such as:
Please ask [person] to translate this article into English.
That person who just got out of the car is our new department head.
It covers some pretty intermediate stuff once you get past the first or so chapters. I think basic is more along the lines of “It is a big red car”, so sentences that only have a single topic and don’t go into much detail.
Haha, this word was so easy to remember for me because I hate playing against the character Oni (who is all demon like) on Street Fighter IV. >:)
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@MisterM2402 That sounds fair, I might try it out when I finish the bulk of TextFugu content
Yep there’s Anki decks, I missed some of them too and had to go back to them which was a pain! Definitely start using those.
Alternatively, are you a fan of statistics? Ways of seeing how you are improving? If so, give Read the Kanji a try, I find the way it charts your progress really motivating because you can track your progress, yummy bars, colour indication and percentages! It costs $20 a year but you can study the kanji from JLPT4 for free. Why not give it a try?
I promise I don’t work for the site, but I started using it recently and it’s really hitting the right notes here. Kanji made my mind melt at first, I really enjoy it now, though.
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Indeed it is. It’s also compact, more like a handbook than a traditional A4 bulky textbook which is nice. It feels like I learnt a lot and I’m not even finished with the first part of the book yet!
The last textbook I bought was Japanese for Busy People…which soon turned into a doorstop, something about that book just really didn’t grab me. This one is definitely impressive, if you like grammar and want to really dive into sentence structure and learning how a bunch of different things work then I don’t think you can go wrong with it. A tip of the hat to missingno for this one.
Read around 20 pages of the book missingno recommended. It’s so good, I wanted to start working on more advanced sentences so the book is really grabbing me. Also did Anki reviews and still working towards finishing the kanji for jLPT4, nearly there now…nearly
Read the Kanji has JLPT1-4 decks. I like it a lot. I think most people are referring to Remembering the Kanji when they say RTK, that’s the mnemonic approach right? I really don’t like that way of doing things.
and the book missingno recommended is fantastic. I would pick that up ASAP.
Started the kanji/vocab from JLPT3 today and still slugging away at the ultimate verbs list.
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