benzionisrael Triglot Groupie Spain Joined 4670 days ago 79 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, SpanishB2
| Message 9 of 12 27 April 2012 at 6:28pm | IP Logged |
zerrubabbel wrote:
Thanks a million! ... I think for now, im going to have the basic kanji books shipped to
me Just as soon as possible... (I cant describe how motivated I feel right now ^.^) |
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That´s just awesome!
I really hope you enjoy studying Japanese and I desire that you enjoy a lot of success in your new language learning persuit.
If you ever want any help or advice with your Japanese learning, don´t hesitate to ask for help on this forum. many people who have learned Japanese will help you, myself included.
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TK--F Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 4685 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French
| Message 10 of 12 15 May 2012 at 4:51am | IP Logged |
Good luck.
My favorite dictionary by far is the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary. But really, I find the best way to learn is to find things you enjoy reading that aren't too far above your level, then use rikai chan to create lists of words for review in a program like Anki, or just as a word list. It has a great (but well-hidden) feature: when it is displaying a character if you press C the dictionary entry will be copied to your clipboard. Take it from there and paste it into Anki for review.
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Travod Newbie United States Joined 4591 days ago 17 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese
| Message 11 of 12 10 July 2012 at 11:11pm | IP Logged |
I recently bought "Japanese Kanji and Kana: A Complete Guide to the Japanese Writing System" which
has all 2,136 joyo kanji and I'm learning five a day by just writing them down repeatedly :P It's working!
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=33014&PN=1
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Umin Triglot Newbie Germany despairedreading.worRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4552 days ago 37 posts - 52 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Japanese Studies: French, Mandarin
| Message 12 of 12 11 July 2012 at 4:55am | IP Logged |
Apart from the books recommended here, which I think are really helpful, I'd also recommend just reading some
Japanese books, and Manga without(!) Furigana, as soon as you have some 300, 400 Kanji together. I started
reading
Manga that had no Furigana after my 1st Semester of Japanese at university (we had done ca. 300 Kanji) and it
proved really helpful. It's much easier to remember new Kanji (and words) if you see them in a context you're
actually interested in.
You may want to start out with children's books (e.g. Aoi Tori Bunko) or light novels (Dengeki Bunko, MediaWorks
Bunko, Famitsu Bunko,...) since they have some Furigana to rarer Readings or Kanji that are learnt in Middle School,
but it's definitely worth a try. There also seem to be some children's versions of popular novels read by young
adults, e.g. I've seen a children's book version of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yûutsu in a bookstore once. In case the
books are really the same in terms of expressions, and just the Furigana are different, that might also be great to
test if and how much you've improved.
Edited by Umin on 11 July 2012 at 5:00am
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