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| MultipackCan Newbie Ireland Joined 4096 days ago 20 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Esperanto | Message 1 of 14 04 March 2013 at 8:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey everyone, I'm a long time lurker but first time poster. I've been reading the site
for a while but have finally registered as being part of such an active community can only be good for my language learning :) I'm a 19 year old student in the west of Ireland, Japanese is the first of what I hope will be a few languages I'm going to study. I studied Japanese to a beginner level about a year ago but stopped to focus on exams, I've been meaning to get back into studying ever since but just didn't get around to it. I had a solid grasp of the kana and basic vocab/grammar. I tested myself on the kana today and while I couldn't write them all out from memory I'm sure it'll come back to me over the next couple of days. I've decided to focus on Heisig's first book and try to study it intensely over the next few weeks. I'm also going to start Pimsleur or Michel Thomas tomorrow, although more I won't be studying too intensely a lesson or so per day. I have accumulated some books and here and there but not sure what I'm going to continue with after I finish RTK, but I'll be sure to keep you posted with whatever resources I choose to use and of course I'd love to hear any recommendations. Thanks :) Edited by MultipackCan on 04 March 2013 at 8:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6432 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 2 of 14 04 March 2013 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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I recommend Reviewing the Kanji for reviewing the Heisig kanji. It's also a good place to find stories if you get stuck.
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| Waylon Newbie United States Joined 4096 days ago 10 posts - 14 votes Studies: French, Georgian, Persian | Message 3 of 14 04 March 2013 at 10:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm not sure how much time you'll have, but if you're okay with watching very corny Japanese videos, I would recommend Irasshai. They're about twenty six minutes and very interesting (I'm not sure when they were made, but I'm guessing late 90s-early 2000s).
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| MultipackCan Newbie Ireland Joined 4096 days ago 20 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Esperanto | Message 4 of 14 05 March 2013 at 1:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks! @Brun Ugle I'm going to be using RememberingtheKanji everyday, it seems like a
great resource. @Waylon I'll definitely check the videos out anyway :) Cheers. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| MultipackCan Newbie Ireland Joined 4096 days ago 20 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Esperanto | Message 5 of 14 07 March 2013 at 10:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Upto around 425~ Kanji today. Reviewing using both Anki and reviewingthekanji.com. I've
been watching an episode of Irasshai everyday as suggested and also listening to a Pimsleur per day. I tried the Erin.ne.jp video lessons, studying the scripts in the morning and then watching the episode, but I didn't understand much of the grammar and found it frustrating. I will go back to them though in a couple of months once I have completed RTK and begin to focus on speaking and grammar. I started seperate Anki decks for sentences and vocabulary today. Not much in them yet though but I'll try add a little daily. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hasi Diglot Senior Member Austria Joined 5928 days ago 120 posts - 133 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 6 of 14 08 March 2013 at 8:58am | IP Logged | ||
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A fellow RTKer :) Best of luck. I have noticed that it get a lot harder after around 700 kanji or so, I don't know but I
at least had times when I felt that I just couldn't be bothered with doing my reviews. But breaking up the task into smaller ones, like just studying for 5 minutes really helped me. Also: are you actively using Anki and RevTK to review? I have read that this might not be such a good idea because it will screw up the SRS because there are times when you might only know a kanji in Anki because you have just seen it 5 minutes ago in RevTK, and the other way around, rather than e.g. 5 days ago as the SRS assumes you have. That is also the reason why I am only using Anki to review and RevTK to get my stories from. Particularly once Heisig doesn't provide and stories or hints it becomes tough. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| MultipackCan Newbie Ireland Joined 4096 days ago 20 posts - 28 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Esperanto | Message 7 of 14 08 March 2013 at 10:11am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks, that does make sense. I'll just stick to Anki from today onwards for SRS. Can't wait to get it done! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bubblyworld Newbie South Africa http:/ Joined 4098 days ago 7 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Xhosa, French, Japanese | Message 8 of 14 08 March 2013 at 4:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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RTK is indeed a great resource for learning the kanji! If you every find yourself lacking a bit of motivation, a couple of sites I've found useful to kickstart me back into gear are:
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/ - A crazy, fun site. Love the posts there. http://www.asahi.com/ - 朝日新聞, a major Japanese newspaper. http://www.tofugu.com/ - Very amusing tales of Japanese culture =). 頑張っているね！ 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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