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| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5983 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 89 of 292 10 June 2012 at 2:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am still undecided as to how important I think writing kanji is too. Most of the time I write and take notes on the computer because it is so much quicker and easier, however it is also very helpful at times to be able to take notes by hand. It is also very helpful to be able to reproduce an unfamiliar character you have just seen without too much effort.
To start with I found that writing out the characters helped me to remember them well enough to recognise them, but as I have grown more used to them I am finding I can recognise a lot which I have no way of remembering how to write. I think I would like to make sure that I have a good knowledge, including reading and writing, of the 1006 elementary school characters. Beyond that I may find I am content with recognition only. I'm very excited that you are brushing off your Japanese again though! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6086 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 90 of 292 11 June 2012 at 9:57am | IP Logged | ||
I'm excited too :) Now that I know I'm not going to be tested in french anytime soon I can relax! I'm currently working on the weather. So for the "recognition" part of the day I've got some kanji to work on. I've only begun to try to recognize them -- they're new -- and even when I break them apart, some are not so easy to develop stories for. Let's see what the forcast is for this week! 霧 きり, fog mist, spray, (rain, festival float, winter, power) 洪水, こうずい flood 湿度, しつど level of humidity 気圧, きあつ atmospheric pressure 小雨, こあめ light rain, drizzle 夕立, ゆうだち evening shower 土砂降り, どしゃぶり, pelting rain (ground, sand, fall) 梅雨, つゆ rainy season (plum, rain) 雷, かみなり thunder 稲光, いなびかり lightning (rice plant, ray) 嵐, あらし, storm 吹雪, ふぶき blizzard 大雪, おおゆき major snow 霙, みぞれ sleet (rain, legs, silver, big/dog) 霰, あられ graupel (rain, 1,2, moon, hit) 霜, しも, frost (rain, tree, eye) For my "read-but-can't-write" kanji I have these to practice: 晴れです 曇りです 雪です 風が強いです 暑いです 寒いです 気候 天気予報 天気図 良い天気 悪い天気 晴れる 曇る 雨が降る 雪が降る 気温度 Edited by Sunja on 11 June 2012 at 10:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6621 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 91 of 292 11 June 2012 at 7:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I had to look up graupel. Actually, it's something we have a lot of here in Norway. But here they call it "hagl" (hail). I always say to them,"You can't call those tiny things 'hail.' It's got to be at least pea-sized to be worthy of the name hail."
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| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5983 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 92 of 292 11 June 2012 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I had never heard of graupel either! I would have just translated あられ as hail. There is another Japanese word for larger hail stones, I've been told it at least three times and I still can't remember it!
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| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6086 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 93 of 292 11 June 2012 at 8:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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German has all the words for all the different forms that water takes coming from the sky, so I feel like I'm prepared. Graupelregen, Hagel, Schneeregen are the first three that come to mind. Until I looked it up I didn't know there was a difference. Hagel is round, clear and hard and Graupel is closer to matted snow. We were getting Hagel a few weeks ago. Short cloudbursts of it -- weird. Maybe this new meteorological insight can help me develop a story for this complicated kanji? 霰
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| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6086 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 94 of 292 14 June 2012 at 11:50am | IP Logged | ||
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I was digging through my old forum logs this morning (man, they're embarrassing) and I found some useful reading, great for those interested in the Super Challenge (hint, hint!). These are fictional ghost stories and I have to say thanks again to UNZUM for providing me with the link to this site, many moons ago. I had to delete the audio links, they're too old, but I'll try to re-link later if I have time.
1. 人形Puppet text 2. 記念撮影photographic memory text 3. 黒い影dark shadow text 4. 取り憑く possession text I'll be using the 'ol, trusty FURIGANIZER to read this stuff. Edited by Sunja on 14 June 2012 at 11:52am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Axystos Pentaglot Newbie Antarctica Joined 6834 days ago 20 posts - 43 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French, Russian Studies: Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Japanese, Czech, Polish | Message 95 of 292 14 June 2012 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | ||
Hey, thanks for that link! It looks quite useful. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fortheo Senior Member United States Joined 5037 days ago 187 posts - 222 votes Studies: French | Message 96 of 292 16 June 2012 at 9:02am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for the useful links! you might also likeTHIS SITE to convert to furigana, or whatever...I find it has more options. Those weather vocabulary were useful :) keep up the good work teammate! Edited by fortheo on 16 June 2012 at 9:05am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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