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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 225 of 1702 27 January 2012 at 6:11am | IP Logged |
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It's my Friday (yeah!). I'll be getting as much Japanese in as possible. The class is going well. I'm learning a lot of grammar. It's not without pain. My brain seems to want to fight me regarding speaking Japanese with new grammar concepts. But it's going to anyway. I am just going to make it suffer until it yields.
Today's class was ok. We have a take home kanji test. Studying Heisig doesn't necessarily help me know the furigana for kanji (but it does if I already knew what the Japanese was). However, I did not study any Japanese kanji names whatsoever before. It was one of many things I thought were less important and well in Japanese 101 they do teach some basic ones. I don't have them learned yet so that's a bit annoying when I get called on in class to do exercises and I'm stumbling over the names of all things. It doesn't help. I hope to rectify this soon. When I say easy I do mean easy Japanese names - like 山口 for example. But I never saw it before in my life and I didn't learn it. I'm going to go back and add these names to my vocab decks. Ugh. A little embarrassing. Did about 400 vocab cards in my spaced repetition decks. I'd gotten *slightly* behind in them. Just thinking how nice it would be if I could actually get through 400 cards in a couple hours for my Heisig deck. That deck takes me much longer to get through cards. I sit and think about the stories and stuff (and draw the kanji). I think my mind wanders a bit more when I do that deck too. I'm lucky if I can get through 100 per day of that thing. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6612 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 226 of 1702 27 January 2012 at 8:29am | IP Logged |
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Ah, the ubiquitous 山口さん。I think he is in almost every Japanese textbook. They mostly choose the same names because they want ones with easy kanji. Here are a few other common ones:
中村：なかむら 山本：やまもと 本田：ほんだ 田中：たなか 山田：やまだ 山中：やまなか 木村：きむら 石田：いしだ 上田：うえだ Basically, they use the same few kanji again and again in different combinations. Here are two with slightly more difficult kanji, but because they are such common names, I’ve seen them in a few textbooks. 加藤：かとう 佐藤：さとう 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5974 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 227 of 1702 27 January 2012 at 1:41pm | IP Logged |
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鈴木 すずき and 佐々木 ささき seem to crop up a lot as well. If you are watching a lot of Japanese movies and TV shows the credits offer a great opportunity to practice your name reading!
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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 228 of 1702 27 January 2012 at 5:36pm | IP Logged |
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Awesome. Thank you! I'll get those names added in asap.
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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 229 of 1702 28 January 2012 at 6:22pm | IP Logged |
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I was thinking about talking about Heisig to my classmates at this Japanese course at the junior college.
Obviously I'm really happy with the method and find it's helping me a lot and I think the way the text book teaches Kanji is a bit backwards. I haven't seen them even mention the word radical with respect to kanji - they pretty much just give you the whole thing and you have to learn every kanji as a new and individual whole. Not surprising the goal is really just recognition of the kanji and they don't test your ability to write the kanji on any of the tests (although the professor does give extra points if you do so). Anyway, so I was going to talk to some of my classmates about it and well obviously show them my Heisig deck as an example. The only thing is that some of the stories are well a little adult rated so to speak. My stories were all PGish until Heisig went and gave me a primitive and told me to call it "crotch." It got more fun to make my stories but now I don't know about sharing them with any girls heh. I'm guessing I'm not the only one who had this happen to them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fortheo Senior Member United States Joined 5028 days ago 187 posts - 222 votes Studies: French | Message 230 of 1702 28 January 2012 at 11:37pm | IP Logged |
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haha, not only that but the kanji for " guy " has the keywords woman and crotch in it, so its real easy to get some dirty stories in there.
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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6612 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 231 of 1702 29 January 2012 at 9:53am | IP Logged |
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Maybe you should just show them the book it does have stories in the beginning at least.
I agree that the stories can easily become x-rated. The site I use where people can contribute their own stories has quite a few rather racy ones. Some people can make a dirty story even out of the most innocent sounding primitives. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5820 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 232 of 1702 30 January 2012 at 3:50am | IP Logged |
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I have my fair share of dirty kanji stories too. There's one I got from the RTK site that was so silly and gross I didn't
want to use it, but lo and behold it popped into my mind every time I saw the kanji so I just went with it. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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