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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4665 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 145 of 256 10 December 2013 at 9:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Somehow I'm a few weeks behind with my updates again.
W/E 2013-12-01 26h09m Audio: 13:31 Vocab: 6:07 Reading: 4:59 Grammar: 1:52 W/E 2013-12-08 28h02m Audio: 12:17 Vocab: 5:20 Reading: 9:16 Grammar: 0:00 Over the last few weeks I've been focussing more on reading. I'm working my way through A Homestay in Japan during my tutorials. In addition I've tidied up my Anki decks and I'm now focussing on Kanji vocabulary. I've made sure that I've prioritised the AHIJ kanji vocabulary to start with and I've also reviewed all of the the kanji vocab from the memrise N5 course that I've imported into Anki. This time I've not disabled any of the kanji vocab unless it was marked as "usually written using kana alone" in tangorin.com. memrise.com is now (seemingly) back on an even keel after a week or two of slowness. I've not dived back into it yet as I was concentrating on keeping the Anki decks under control. Last time I looked I was ~700 words behind on the memrise N3 course. I think I'll have to catch up again in bursts. I've set myself a target of just a bit less than one NHK EasyNews article per day, on average. So here we are on the 10th day of December but I've only managed 5 articles so far. So I'll push on with some more of those tonight. Luckily the available archive goes back as far as about one month, so there are plenty from which to choose. I've also set myself a target of watching all the episodes of 日本人の知らない日本語, and I've so far managed precisely none of them. I think I need to give myself a bit of a kick in the pants and just get on with it. No grammar study at all this last week as I've been focussing on reading. I'm still reviewing the odd grammar point as needed when reading, and I'm updating the notes I've made, but I'm not doing any intensive grammar study right now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4665 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 146 of 256 16 December 2013 at 11:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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W/E 2013-12-15 28h48m
Audio: 12:03 Vocab: 5:27 Reading: 5:21 Grammar: 0:00 Other: 5:57 No grammar again. Well, no explicit grammar study, but I am looking up grammar points on an "as needed" basis. There's plenty of reading going on as I'm still working through AHIJ with my tutor. When that's finished (in January I think) then I'll start on the intermediate books of みんなの日本語: so there's be plenty of grammar then! In the meantime the reading lessons are helping me to improve my listening speed and also my comprehension (as she's now worked out how to tell when I've misunderstood something, so I'm not allowed to get away with anything :-)). Lots of 日本人の知らない日本語 this week, the whole series in fact. I can follow some parts without subtitles, but not very much. I think Japanese subtitles would be grand, but I've only found one set for episode 1 and they didn't work with VLC (although they were readable in an editor, so I don't know what's wrong there). I've been pushing to try and get my rejigged Anki decks back under control. I'm finding that my kanji recognition is better than I expected. I've reviewed all the N5 vocabulary as kanji and it has mostly stuck. I'll try to get the N4 kanji vocabulary started as soon as I have some time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4632 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 147 of 256 16 December 2013 at 11:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you'd like, the whole series is on youtube with chinese and japanese subtitles in the
video ;) Too bad you've already seen all of them ^^ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4665 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 148 of 256 17 December 2013 at 12:48am | IP Logged | ||
OK. Now I feel silly :-) But thanks for pointing them out - I'll try watching a few and see how it goes. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4665 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 149 of 256 27 December 2013 at 1:12am | IP Logged | ||
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W/E 2013-12-22 36h05m
Audio: 15:05 Vocab: 9:54 Reading: 10:51 Grammar: 0:15 Nothing terribly exciting this week. Audio continued as usual. I've also kept Anki up to date and left memrise alone. I've started to work through the JPOD101 LI S4 lessons, adding vocab and sentences to anki. I read through 12 articles on NHK EasyNews. I added all of the unknown vocab to anki, although some of the more obscure government departments became suspended pretty quickly! If I'm wrong and they're not that obscure, they'll show up as duplicates in when another article mentions them and I try to add them again: then I'll un-suspend them and pay more attention! I found someone else at work who is learning Japanese. He brought in JfBP3 and I spent 15m reading through it one lunch time. From that brief look it seems that it gets you about as far as Minna no Nihongo II. Apparently it doesn't cover very much (if any) 敬 語, so I'm still quite happy with my choice of MNN as my main text book. I'd still happily work through JfBP3 if one came my way for a while. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4665 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 150 of 256 30 December 2013 at 12:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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W/E 2013-12-29 21h20m
Audio: 3:25 Vocab: 9:42 Reading: 6:15 Grammar: 1:58 Well it's Christmas, so as expected I didn't get that much done. In particular I didn't commute much and so I didn't listen to very much audio. I've managed to review most of the non-N2 vocabulary and N5+N4 kanji in Anki. I keep adding vocabulary from NHK EasyNews so that's why it's "most" and not "all". I looked back at my goals and realised that I wanted to make start on the N2 vocabulary, so I've done that. As my initial source was memrise, I'm finding that ~10% of the words are not what I'd consider to be N2 level at all, but that's OK: there are ~4000 of them so some of them are bound to be new :-) Looking back at my goals I also realised that I was supposed to listen intensively to JPOD LI S3, so I've just started that, somewhat belatedly. I listened to the first 7 last night, so I need to work my way through another 17 today and tomorrow. That's doable, I just need to prioritise the listening. I've read though 13 MHK EasyNews articles this week. It seems that when I sit down to do them I manage 3 or 4 in one go, but obviously on several days I didn't read any at all. I should try to read at least one a day to see if I can form a habit here. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4665 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 151 of 256 01 January 2014 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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To finish off 2013 and allow 2014 to start on 1-JAN-2014, I'll log the last two days of
2013 separately. Year ending 2013-12-31 4h31m Audio: 2:19 Vocab: 1:41 Reading: 0:31 The audio here is all finishing off the JPOD101 LI S3 intensive listening. The rest of the work was RTK and Anki. All just bits and pieces fitted in as a few moments became available at various points during the year-end festivities. 明けましておめでとうございます!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4665 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 152 of 256 07 January 2014 at 12:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Starting 2014:
W/E 2014-01-05 (but starting 2014-01-01): 21h52m Audio: 7:02 Vocab: 7:06 Reading: 3:16 Grammar: 2:56 Video: 1:32 The video section this week has been 仁保人の知らない日本語, this time without subtitles. I've worked through one full NHK News article each day, and a few NHK EasyNews ones when they've been available. I've reviewed 350 new words in my vocabulary deck and I've finished SRSing JPOD101 LI S4. I've worked through the first three days of 日本語総まとめ N3 文法. Once again the distinction between らしい and みたい reared its nasty little head but this time I think I may have cracked it. I've been trying out some Upper Intermediate lessons rather than Lower Intermediate dialogues on my commute. The Upper Intermediate lessons do have an English explanation but it's more of an afterthought for the laggards at the back of the class like me who don't understand Japanese. So it's maybe 80% Japanese. I think I'll stick with these for a while as there's lots of Japanese meat for me to get stuck into. I've kept Anki up to date but I've not yet re-started memrise. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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