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| aokoye Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5533 days ago 235 posts - 453 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese | Message 1 of 3 27 April 2011 at 1:40am | IP Logged |
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I've decided to learn Japanese again - or at least attempt it. I studied it for a semester in college before I took a
year and a half of leave and off and on in short bursts for a little bit. I decided to pick up Genki again and see how far I can go with this (obviously not only relying on Genki). I have already relearned the kana so that's not an issue but the real question is how to go about doing this. I want to go through the book and after learning X amount of words (and sentence structures obviously as I'll be learning from a textbook) start reading the Japanese Graded Reader series that is published by ASK. My birthday is coming up and they are available at my local Kinokuniya I will also be adding other things such as grammar books as I go and see fit. In regards to speaking I plan on finding a language partner on Skype in the next few weeks, when I feel confident in my abilities as far as vocab goes - somewhere around 300-400 words which will happen very quickly so really I should start looking now as opposed to in the next few weeks. In regards to kanji I really like the approach that Genki uses so I'm probably going to stick to that for now. There is also a book called Power Up your Kanji which looks like it also may be good. I've learned that for me, I need to learn kanji in context while not introducing too much new material at a time. Thus delving right into "regular" books for native speakers who aren't young children wouldn't be a good idea. In regards to writing I'll be doing a little extra writing in addition to the exercises in the Genki textbook everyday (hopefully) and posting them on lang-8 and possibly finding an email partner though I am notorious for being bad about replying so I probably won't do that. Now the real question is, what else do other people think I should be doing? Can anyone offer any critiques? I think the real challenge is keeping myself motivated. Not so much because I don't want to learn the language but because my depression makes it very easy to loose motivation in things. I do plan on doing 2-3 chapters a week with more in the beginning as it'll be a review. I also want to incorporate a bit of "immersion" (as much as one can do without being in Japan) into the process but am not all quite sure how to. I don't want to do anything even close to AJATT but I think some immersion would be beneficial. My whole goal here is to test into the third year Japanese classes at my university so I'll be able to minor in the language without going through the first to years as I can't stand the book they use (and having spoken to a friend who is a professor in the foreign language department, she says a lot of people concur with me). There are 23 chapters in the Genki series of two books (at least the first volume - they just came out with a second printing). If I do 2 chapters a week (which I think is realistic for me) I should be able to get done with the two books in 11 and a half weeks or around 3 months. I think it also would be logical to realize that I will probably have some weeks where I only go through one chapter though, as I stated above, I'll probably be doing at least three chapters this week. Either way it's not something I'm going to beat myself up for or lose sleep over. Again, I welcome any advice, critiques, or suggestions. I will probably also be posting on a language log here or possibly just starting a new blog expressly for the purpose of tracking my progress. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6651 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 2 of 3 27 April 2011 at 2:16pm | IP Logged |
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If you do want to use SRS I’d reccomend that you put the example sentences from Genki’s grammar explanations
therein. They all come with an English translation. As for vocabulary there are already made Genki decks that can easily be downloaded from withing the programme called Anki. A little tip is to put the Genki audio on your phone/mp3-player and listen to it often. It might not be enough, but it’s something that you know and you can reinforce to your brain. If you like to learn kanji in context and do not need mnemonics I’d say: learn the kanji from the lessons in Genki. And now I mean the regular lessons, and not the kanji lessons. Look them up in a dictionary to get the stroke order, and then do the ‹Scriptorium› of the lessons and the exercised, writing out every word with kanji (thus 勉強す る and not べんきょうする — even though these kanji are not taught in the kanji section fo the Genki I book). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| aokoye Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5533 days ago 235 posts - 453 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, Norwegian, Japanese | Message 3 of 3 27 April 2011 at 5:40pm | IP Logged |
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That's a good idea about the sentences and the kanji - I hadn't thought of either of them so I will definitely incorporate that into my studies - especially the kanji bit. I also have been listening to the Genki audio as much as I
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