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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 441 of 1702 28 July 2012 at 10:40pm | IP Logged |
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Well I started studying Heisig last night about midnight and then stayed up all night to finish it off. I thought I
would rest easier having finally finished it. It's good to be "done" with it. I have a lot of reviews though in my SR deck for it. Almost all of them lol. It's kind of neat that my app gives me credit for getting it right after several months of not looking at the card - the next interval is ovef 60 days for some of the cards (if I get them right on the 1st try). That's a bit rewarding. But pretty much any kanji I've seen used in a word I've studied I remember thanks to Heisig. So another good way to keep them fresh is to just learn more vocabulary. With that in mind I might be getting back to book 2 which I started a couple of months ago but got distracted from. I'll use it to learn the vocabulary as well as the sounds of the kanji. I'm not sure how to best integrate this in with my other goals in the language at the moment though. I also want to focus vocabulary for the JPLT N3 (there's tons of it that I don't know yet) and I like just learning lots of words that I lookup myself from anime or online or from Harry Potter. And then there's the grammar I'm trying to learn ahead of time for the fall when I start my course. And I kind of wanted to do Rosetta Stone and get it done. A lot on the plate lol. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| 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 442 of 1702 28 July 2012 at 11:59pm | IP Logged |
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I might start in on RTK 3 sooner than later. I've started making a separate deck of cards for new kanji that I
have in my new vocab that aren't in RTK 1 (most words just use RTK 1 kanji but it happens that you get others). Previously I just added the kanji's meaning to the vocab card and moved on but now I'm making a little story for it and adding it to the new deck for reviewing with the RTK deck.. I just started doing this this afternoon. Somehow, since I hadn't finished RTK 1, it didn't occur to me to be adding new kanji from vocab to the deck complete with stories. That said I'd like to use the meanings that Heisig created along with any primitives etc. I'm going to have to at least skim RTK 3 I think. However, embarking on 1000 new kanji at this point seems like a lot of extra work if I haven't learned vocabulary for all of the RTK 1 kanji yet. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5641 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 443 of 1702 29 July 2012 at 1:22am | IP Logged |
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I'd say wait on RTK 3. Enjoy finally finishing RTK 1 (I only ever got to like 1850 when I was studying Japanese) now that you're finally done with that part of Japanese. Take a break from learning kanji, solidify the ones you know (since they are the important ones), learn some new words, and months later start on RTK 3.
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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 444 of 1702 29 July 2012 at 2:33am | IP Logged |
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That makes sense. I think I will skim it. I'm not going to sit down and try to learn 1000 new kanji though.
Especially since they come up so infrequently. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| 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 445 of 1702 06 August 2012 at 6:33pm | IP Logged |
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So I wonder if the sit is actually fixed..l typed a rather long entry over the weekend and then the site went
back down and it's gone... Well to be brief I'm making my focus RTK 2 for the rest of August. As my course approaches I may switch to something more in line for the course ie speaking and or reviewing grammar. For now I think it would cool to know the pronunciations of as many kanji as possible. Edited by kraemder on 06 August 2012 at 6:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5218 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 446 of 1702 06 August 2012 at 6:49pm | IP Logged |
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The site underwent a database back-roll (unnecessarily I think, but I may be wrong about that) to get it up and running so everything posted in the last few days has gone poof. Unil the site is definitely fixed it may well happen again, so I'd wait for a few days or an official 'green light' post from the admin or moderators before posting anything you wouldn't want to vanish.
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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 447 of 1702 06 August 2012 at 6:51pm | IP Logged |
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I don't want anything to vanish lol. I'm not home but I'll probably back up what I write then at home. And
maybe just keep things short. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| 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 448 of 1702 07 August 2012 at 1:02am | IP Logged |
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This is kinda silly but to be honest I have to say that I'm still not completely convinced that Japanese "works" as a language. Stupid right? It's just so backwards.. and the vocabulary.. the way they make words.. just combining kanji etc.. with so few sounds in the language. I think I went through this with other languages too but it's been a while. For example, Spanish just doesn't use a subject hardly ever. And when reading a book my brain just didn't want to come to terms with that. It's fine now. But it wasn't before. With Japanese it's the vocabulary and kanji and how they seem to get their words just combining kanji arbitrarily or something. I'm sure it'll make sense eventually. I just need more exposure to the language.
New word for me I just got from watching Nodame Cantible. I'm sure I've heard it before but I'm getting better at picking out new words: 悪夢(あくむ)or nightmare (or evil dream) Which reminds me of 悪魔. Which reminds me of 悪人 So just take あく and combine it with something to get it's evil version right. Except that あく can mean other things too like 開く. Ugh. Oh well. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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