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Just ordered that book missing, thanks. Looks really good from reviews and looking at pictures of a few pages.
I don’t like the whole mnemonics thing so I’m not going to be buying Remembering the Kanji, I’m just going to do all levels of JLPT with Read the Kanji instead. I’ll check out Gakuu but I think I’ll just look over Tae Kim’s grammar guide for a while first. Human Japanese might be worth checking out too.
Make friends on Lang-8, a few people on there are teaching me bits of Japanese, one person keeps giving me complex sentences then goes over each major grammar point, she also gives the English version to help break it down.
Bit of a thread resurrection but I’ve been using Read the Kanji lately and have been really enjoying the site.
I prioritise the on’yomi reading in most cases since kun’yomi can (usually) be learned through vocab.Although I felt really dumb because I was thinking “Why is this so hard?” then I realised JLPT1 was the hardest, and JLPT4 was the easiest. Guess what I had it set to…and this went on for a few weeks before I realised. :P
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Luke.
I use Evernote mostly and take notes on grammar points, I have a little notebook as well that I practice writing in and keep some notes in too.
I try not to write too much on paper because if it’s lost, it’s gone forever. I mostly write because writing new words can aid your memory I believe.
I don’t really review my notes much, mostly when I start writing and I’m unsure about a certain grammar point I’ll go back and make sure I’m thinking right.
I think 切る is used as a way of saying you are going to cut something, where as 切れる is saying you are going to cut something off. I think one of the decks specifically has 切れる as “to be cut off” but I could be wrong
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Nice, it’s so much cheaper to go to Japan than I thought it was, and the flight time isn’t 20 hours like I originally thought. :P (it’s 12)
Thinking of going early next year, I need to ask if I can lodge with my friend for a week or two, maybe longer if I wouldn’t be outstaying my welcome too much. I wanted to go next month but it’s going to clash with too many things. @_@
I’m pretty excited because I will be spending a few hours with 5 native Japanese speakers later this month, I think it’s a guy and 4 girls but I’m not too sure, they are all studying at a university quite close to me. Will be speaking to them in both English and Japanese, since they want help with English too!
If I get on with them all well then I might try and make it a regular thing, especially if they want me to help them with English more.
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and twice one of them wouldn’t go in the box! Although at this amount of time it really is all luck based, if you get a bunch of them appear at the bottom right next to where they are meant to go it easily takes a few seconds off
I increase the leech limit and only use English –> Japanese, I also make use of the syncing stuff for multiple devices, that’s one of my favourite features.
1:12 too: http://i.imgur.com/Qg2aV.jpg
What annoyed me is one of them got put in the right box but I guess I very slightly missed the area so it reset back to the bottom and it cost me 2 seconds or so on the clock!
Katakana is around 1:30
Oh I totally missed the part where it says you are meant to do the ultimate lists while going through the chapters. I think that might cause information overload so I’m just going to focus on the lists like I have been today.
Lately I’m focusing on the ultimate adjectives, nouns and verb lists, reviewing all decks on Anki and making some progress on Read the Kanji’s JLPT1 decks. Have been writing series of random sentences every 2 days and sticking them on Lang-8 which is really helpful, got an awesome explanation about sentence structure from someone on there.
I really want to get the ultimate lists down so I can focus on grammar a lot more, and kanji. Kanji is amazing.
Don’t worry too much, as long as it doesn’t sound like a really strong “ra” as if you’re about to say “rapunzel” I don’t think many Japanese people will have a tough time understanding it. I’ve heard quite a lot of Japanese people pronounce it with more of an “r” sound than others too.
Plus it’s probably one of those things that you will slowly adapt to once you listen to more and more Japanese media.
Yeah but in time you will know the words, and if you practice writing by using Lang-8 you’ll eventually get used to seeing the kanji version pop up on your IME, which is another way to learn the kanji for a word in a way. On Lang-8 people sometimes correct you by changing your hiragana stuff to kanji too, so that’s another way to remember the kanji for a given word or phrase.
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