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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5181 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1145 of 1702 11 November 2013 at 8:14am | IP Logged | ||
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I had my Sunday listening lesson on JOI. I aced every question (yay). It's funny how I feel like I'm getting better from week to week doing this thing. I wouldn't think that a week is long enough to notice an improvement but it seems like I am noticing it. The 2nd week, technically, I think I got more wrong but I totally felt I was understanding and hearing it better but the difficulty of the questions was kind of tough. And had some technicalities involved which is hard on a learner. Anyway, getting a perfect score is heartening for sure.
I'm watching a series called Guilty Crown right now. I'm not sure when it was published but it's not brand new. Probably a couple of years ago. It's an action sci fi / fantasy series about 24 episodes long and I'm getting towards the finish. Addictive. I started a flashcard deck for episode 1 but haven't added audio from the actual episode yet. It is seriously a pain to make these stupid cards with real audio but I love studying them so much. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5181 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1146 of 1702 16 November 2013 at 2:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm looking at Skritter and their study method. It
seems like the ultimate kanji flashcard deck that I'm too lazy to make. It apparently does vocabulary too which is interesting. I'm not sure how I feel yet about the way it takes what you write and warps it into a corrected paint brush looking kanji. If you haven't seen their website you kind if have to see this for yourself. You write your kanji and if it's passable it re does your stroke for you but perfectly. It's kind of neat but also hard for you to critically look at how you're writing the kanji. Do your kanji look like a 3 year old wrote it? Who knows. But I've only used this site for 20 minutes. Actually I'm using the iPad version. The website has you drawing kanji with a mouse which is crazy I think. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5181 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1147 of 1702 17 November 2013 at 1:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't think I'll be doing Skritter after the trial runs out. It has a lot of pluses but
basically you have to pay and I can't use sentence audio which is something I'm getting used to. It's a good site though and I think the tool is neat. If it were free or really cheap then that would be one thing... But 15$ per month is kind of expensive. And it's really not better than my own flashcard program. It has a sort of Leitner method that seems good though. When you're learning new words it doesn't just make you get it right once and then wait until tomorrow. It really drills it into you. Which can also be annoying if the word isn't really new to you but just new to your Skritter list. I can't find a way to get around it even ranking the word easy it still pops up a few minutes later. I'm guessing it would stop eventually and since you are writing the word out in its kanji glory there does seem to be some benefit. The site got me thinking about stroke order again. It's something that I think us nice but I'm not going to kill myself studying it. I downloaded the kanji stroke order font and have it going in my flashcard app and it's really helpful. There's plenty of stupid kanji whose stroke order I long forgot and didn't think about it. 王 is a good example. Not that myou king looks terrible but I had the 2nd stroke and 3rd stroke mixed up. No more. Anyway. 眠い。 Edited by kraemder on 17 November 2013 at 1:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5181 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1148 of 1702 19 November 2013 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Anyone know this offhand? On the JUST is it ok to
get a head start on the reading section say if you finish the 1st section early or is that cheating? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4662 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 1149 of 1702 20 November 2013 at 12:32am | IP Logged | ||
When you say "JUST" do you mean "JLPT" but damn-you-auto-correct mangled it? If you did, then, on each paper, you can do anything in any order. (Except Listening, obviously). If you really did mean JUST then I have no idea what that even is (and google didn't help). Sorry. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5181 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1150 of 1702 21 November 2013 at 10:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Haha good catch with the just. Yes I meant JLPT. As
I look carefully my phone wants to say just. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4662 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 1151 of 1702 21 November 2013 at 11:29am | IP Logged | ||
In which case you can definitely tackle the questions in any order you like. If you read through the travails of MAC at JLPT BootCamp you'll see that he's tried various techniques in his quest to beat N1. So far as N5 and N4 go, I've never considered working through the harder (and therefore presumably more valuable) questions first. If I had considered it I'd probably would have rejected the idea. I think I need the initial few pages of easier stuff to "warm up" so to speak. I'd also worry about not keeping track of which answers go where on the answer sheet. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4662 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 1152 of 1702 21 November 2013 at 11:31am | IP Logged | ||
I do write out my kanji and I find that helpful for remembering. I did start off learning the general principles of stroke order but I thin decided that I wasn't going to sweat over it too much. I'm wondering whether that was a good decision or not. Are you finding working on stroke- order helpful in remembering the kanji? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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