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| ladybenko Triglot Newbie Spain ladybenko.net Joined 3685 days ago 9 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Catalan, Spanish*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 1 of 8 24 October 2014 at 9:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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I took some Japanese lessons while in uni, but stopped to study the language. A few months ago I decided to re-
start my studies seriously and get to the point where I'll have some basic fluency. What I'm doing: - Studying JALUP's Anki decks (1000 sentences Jap-Eng + 1000 Sentences Jap-Jap). I've finished the first 1000 cards batch, I'm struggling with the Japanese-only cards but I hope to get used to them. - Read Yotsuba&! (comic) - Watch some tv-series that I've already seen with subtitles, this time with no subtitles. I'm not understanding everything, of course, but I manage to remember enough from previous viewings to be able to follow along and still have fun. - Studying kanji on WaniKani. So far I'm struggling to do my reviews both in Anki and WaniKani. The moment I focus on one, I lose traction on the other… Wish there would be a way to manage this. I've also signed up for the 6 Week challenge. See you along the way :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5981 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 2 of 8 28 October 2014 at 6:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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As a Japanese learner, I look forward to following your progress!
I'm a big fan of Yotsuba&! and think it should be essential reading for all Japanese students. I'd be interested to know more about WaniKani, although I think maybe I'm too deep into the intermediate zone for it to be much use to me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ladybenko Triglot Newbie Spain ladybenko.net Joined 3685 days ago 9 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Catalan, Spanish*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 3 of 8 28 October 2014 at 10:40pm | IP Logged | ||
There's a WaniKani review at JALUP (can't post a link because I'm a new member, but if you google "wanikani review jalup" you will find it). If you're at a intermediate level and keep a good pace of kanji learning, I don't think it's worth it. In WaniKani you learn kanji meanings and at least a reading for each one of them. And on top of that, you learn vocabulary (my current stats for about 5 months are ~475 kanji and ~1200 words learnt). There are many vocabulary words, and since I'm a beginner I'm learning quite a lot, but if you already know most of them... then you would be wasting time because there is no way to skip those kanji or vocabulary words that you know already. That's why I think WaniKani is good for beginners, but possibly not a good choice for intermediate learners, or those that want to learn kanji ASAP. Completing WaniKani takes about 2 years. I hope it helped :) Edited by ladybenko on 28 October 2014 at 10:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ladybenko Triglot Newbie Spain ladybenko.net Joined 3685 days ago 9 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Catalan, Spanish*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 4 of 8 02 November 2014 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | ||
Weekly update:
I was a bit worried with my move to Barcelona, because I these weeks I couldn't find any original Japanese material (comics, magazines, etc.), while this was something "normal" I could get in London. However, I've tried buying something on Amazon Japan, which has a global shipping option that pre-pays the customs, so you don't have to pay extra handling fees (only custom taxes). I'm very happy! :) I knew in advance how much I had to pay, Correos didn't charge me any extra (they usually take 14€) for clearing customs, and the comics arrived within a week. I bought the first two volumes of Dragon Ball SD, which is a summary of Dragon Ball, in SD style and with a language aimed to younger children (or in my case, beginner students). I find Yotsuba&! easier to understand, but I can still more or less follow what's going on. My guess is that this could be a good feed for Anki... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ladybenko Triglot Newbie Spain ladybenko.net Joined 3685 days ago 9 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Catalan, Spanish*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 5 of 8 09 November 2014 at 9:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Weekly update:
- WaniKani stats: level 16, with 516 kanji learnt (+30 from last week). - I couldn't manage to do much Anki studying... Went down from 330 pending reviews from last week to 221. - Watched 3 episodes of anime with no subtitles - Finished Dragon Ball SD #1 and started volume #2 (6 chapters in total) - So far, I've put more than 10 hours of study in the 6 weeks challenge! The 6 weeks challenge is being fun. Besides, having stats about how / what I study is nice. I'll wait until the end of the challenge to analyse my stats, but so far I'm seeing that most of my study time comes from sessions shorter than half an hour. And that I'm spending about half of my time reading manga. The Dragon Ball SD manga is awesome, but it's a pity they haven't released more volumes yet :( I still don't know which manga I'll get next. I'll either re-read some Yotsuba, or maybe start with Sukitte ii na yo, which I don't know if I'll be able to understand it. My current goal for the November challenge is to put 60 hours into it. Although I'd be happy with 40-50 too! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ladybenko Triglot Newbie Spain ladybenko.net Joined 3685 days ago 9 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Catalan, Spanish*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 6 of 8 16 November 2014 at 6:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Another weekly update!
- WaniKani stats: level 16, with 529 kanji learnt (+13 from last week) - Watched 1 episode of anime with no subtitles - Read a 15-pages one-shot manga - Had a 30 mins conversation on italki - Put ~4 hours of study time in the 6 weeks challenge Now that I have a decent internet connection, I started to look for italki teachers to practise speaking. So far I only took one 30-minutes lesson, but I think i'll try to take two 30-minutes lessons per week. I had some friends visiting from abroad at the end of the week and that took a dent on my study time… However I had a really nice time. Will have to catch up next week. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ladybenko Triglot Newbie Spain ladybenko.net Joined 3685 days ago 9 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Catalan, Spanish*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 7 of 8 23 November 2014 at 10:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi again, another update :)
- WaniKani stats: level 17, with 555 kanji learnt (+26 from last week) - Watched 2 episodes of anime with no subtitles - Had a 30 minutes conversation on italki - Put ~4.5h of study time in the 6 weeks challenge I tried a new italki teacher this week and I didn't like it. Next Wednesday I'll have a 30- minutes session with last week's teacher, and I'll keep looking – I'd like to have at least two different tutors/teachers on italki. Next week I'll have to watch 7 episodes of anime if I want to reach my November goals… 大変ですね 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5134 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 8 of 8 22 September 2016 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | ||
Dai...koi... desu ne? Is that how to read it? What does it mean? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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