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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 9 of 58 02 January 2012 at 8:37am | IP Logged | ||
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For learning the Hiragana, I found it useful to write them out. I learn better if I write things, than if I just try to learn to recognize them, though some people are fine with just recognition. I also tried to write out words and sentences and always wrote out exercises from my book. I learned it very quickly, just a day or two, so it worked well for me. And since I always wrote a lot of exercises and things when I was studying, they stuck well and I never forgot them again, even in the times when I went several years without studying Japanese.
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| Takato Tetraglot Senior Member HungaryRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5046 days ago 249 posts - 276 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, EnglishB2, GermanB2, Japanese | Message 10 of 58 02 January 2012 at 10:13pm | IP Logged | ||
I wrote them out once, but for some reason I didn't learn it. I'll try it tomorrow again, since you mentioned it, though. I learned today:
 2 hours relearning the first four lessons of Remembering the Kanji 1
 2 hours of Spanish words on memrise.com
watched 55 minutes of anime in Spanish dub. (First Stike)
Now that's better compared to yesterday. I'm kinda satisfied now. Edited by Takato on 03 January 2012 at 11:59am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 11 of 58 03 January 2012 at 8:40am | IP Logged | ||
Once is not likely to be enough. You have to do it many times. But, you don't have to just keep writing out the kana in order like we did with the alphabet in kindergarten. Try copying out some sentences from your book. Then try writing down the words and phrases you've learned without looking in the book and check them afterward. I wrote a lot since I wrote out most of my exercises. That's probably what helped me. Of course, the first week or so, I would forget how one of the hiragana was written now and then and would have to check against my chart, but that got better fairly quickly. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Takato Tetraglot Senior Member HungaryRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5046 days ago 249 posts - 276 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, EnglishB2, GermanB2, Japanese | Message 12 of 58 03 January 2012 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the idea, Brun Ugle. Then I'll try to do it for many hours tomorrow. Nihongo Notes 1 contains some dozens of sentences in hiragana. It'll be enough, you think? (I'll write every sentence many times, of course, because it wouldn't even take one hour to write them once.) Or should I search for my Japanese Phrasebook? I intend to do it for six hours.
The fact that g-bod picked up French seems to be a proof that one is allowed to pick up some new languages, so I picked up Esperanto to see how much time does it take me to learn it. And I'll taste some Mandarin. I learned today: 1 hour 40 minutes from Nihongo Notes 1
 1 hour 15 minutes from the Free Esperanto Course
 30 minutes of tone training.
The postman gave the Spanish Pokemon Blue cartridge today at 10 AM. :D I only have to buy a Gameboy Color... -_-" Edited by Takato on 04 January 2012 at 3:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 13 of 58 03 January 2012 at 10:37pm | IP Logged | ||
I second that! Even N3 would be a tough goal, I think. Give it your best! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 14 of 58 04 January 2012 at 11:55am | IP Logged | ||
I really don't know how much time I used on it since it was many years ago, but I think what was important was that I wrote a little every day. I find writing always helps me to remember things. In college, I used to take notes, but almost never read them again, just writing it don't made it stick in my memory. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4795 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 15 of 58 04 January 2012 at 2:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good luck with your N2 goal! You've certainly got your work cut out for you! I think you'll get there, though.
Like you said, aim high and you'll finish high. It's my philosophy too, as I have similar goals. Even though I can recognize characters by sight easily, I still like to write them out, and not just for the stroke order. In addition to recognition, they make writing Japanese seem much more natural, and faster. Writing will never go out of style, methinketh :) Best of luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fortheo Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 187 posts - 222 votes Studies: French | Message 16 of 58 05 January 2012 at 2:14am | IP Logged | ||
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Learning the Kana is best done in chunks. For example learn five, write them out, then review and repeat till you finish all of them. Also, if you want more practice just copy some of the sentences from your book :)
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