kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese
| Message 433 of 1702 22 July 2012 at 6:56pm | IP Logged |
Yeah, I will post here. In terms of making the flash cards it's a bit more time consuming this way but I think it
should be about the same when I review. We"ll see. Obviiously I'm hopeful this will help me learn faster heh.
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kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese
| Message 434 of 1702 24 July 2012 at 1:22pm | IP Logged |
The sentence deck is neat. Depending on the sentence it can be kind of hard - if a sentence is long and
includes a lot of new words it's a bit of a pain to learn to read. It doesn't seem like this will speed up
vocabulary aquisition but it's helping me with grammar and just better exposure to the language. Since I'm
not reading Japanse regularly and often will just do flashcards and watch an anime the sentence deck is
really good. I'm thinking I'm going to just add slowly to the sentence deck though - it's slower than straight up
vocab decks. I'm not going to stop doing plain old vocab decks altogether. Not sure how to balance it yet.
Also I still haven't finished off Heisig. I have like 100 more to go. It's not too often I see a kanji in that 100 but
it's really getting annoying when I see one and it's Heisig and I don't have a story for it... ugh.
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kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4839 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese
| Message 435 of 1702 24 July 2012 at 2:15pm | IP Logged |
Yeah, probably a good balance is the best way. I think my vocabulary is solid at the intermediate level, but my vocabulary is way behind, so it's a vocab deck for me, with sentences for any grammar points.
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kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese
| Message 436 of 1702 25 July 2012 at 6:06am | IP Logged |
Well, I just came across this vocabulary word and it has me taken aback a bit... Kanji can sort of show a
culture's prejudice I guess.
痴漢
So apparently a molester means a stupid Chinese person if you're Japanese.
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ZombieKing Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4519 days ago 247 posts - 324 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*
| Message 437 of 1702 25 July 2012 at 7:31am | IP Logged |
kraemder wrote:
Well, I just came across this vocabulary word and it has me taken aback a bit... Kanji can sort of show a
culture's prejudice I guess.
痴漢
So apparently a molester means a stupid Chinese person if you're Japanese. |
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xD How nice
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kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese
| Message 438 of 1702 26 July 2012 at 7:02pm | IP Logged |
I'm not going to be doing sentences as the primary method of learning new vocab. I'm gonna have it as a
secondary one. The reason being that it's a bit harder and takes more discipline and mental energy to sit
down and do as well as making the cards. Learning vocab really should be done every day if at all possible I
think and if that means doing words in isolation then much better than a couple times a week.
Right now I'm adding words from the anime I'm watching. Well trying to. If I can hear a word well enough to
spell it then that's great but sometimes I am just looking at the dub and typing in the English and then trying to
pick it out from the results. I'm adding other words that look useful too when I do that. I think it's adding up
fast.
Edited by kraemder on 26 July 2012 at 7:02pm
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kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese
| Message 439 of 1702 28 July 2012 at 1:01am | IP Logged |
It's more than a little frustrating how few sound combinations Japanese has and how despite this they have so much vocabulary. For example.. かし (kashi) means...
loan; lending
song lyrics; words of a song; libretto
pastry; confectionery
the legs; lower extremities
asphyxiation; apparent death
visibility
evergreen oak
flaw; defect; blemish;
noncommissioned officer
grant; bestowal;
false tooth
(flower's) filament
degrees Fahrenheit
Damn that's a lot for just two syllables. And they're all like that.
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kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese
| Message 440 of 1702 28 July 2012 at 2:40pm | IP Logged |
Finished off RTK 1 tonight. I've had 100 to go for ages. And I've been neglecting my reviews doing other stuff instead. I am gonna get on top of that I think. I don't think it's too bad since it's really easy to re-learn kanji when I see it in an actual word but any of those 100 that I hadn't studied yet were a real pain. Should be a lot easier now. I'm wondering if I'll do RTK 3 now. I'm pretty sure it will include some more primitives and that would be very helpful. Kanji that aren't in book 1 but use primitives I already know are pretty easy.
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