aerozeplyn Senior Member United States Joined 5140 days ago 141 posts - 202 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin
| Message 17 of 20 18 December 2010 at 3:57am | IP Logged |
@g-bod
"I would be interested to find out some success stories that don't involve regular flashcard-style reviews." This is a good question.
Although I would say that these methods DO work without the need of SRS software. I have used mnemonic methods, general repetition, and 8-4-2-1. I managed to remember a good chunk of Chinese characters, and this was before I discovered ANKI--and before I discovered this great site :D
I really like ANKI, especially how I can use it for other studies on my mobile phone :) And because of this I now use ANKI (at home with a sheet of paper) to remind me to write out a phrase or a new character.
Edited by aerozeplyn on 18 December 2010 at 3:58am
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Victor Berrjod Diglot Groupie Norway no.vvb.no/ Joined 5101 days ago 62 posts - 110 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese, Korean, Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Mandarin, Cantonese
| Message 18 of 20 18 December 2010 at 5:36pm | IP Logged |
I use Anki. On the question side, I have the keyword with my mnemonic, and on the answer side, I have the character. Actually, since I'm modifying a downloaded deck, I don't have one keyword, but lots of them, and the answer side includes the readings.
I'm not done making the flash cards yet – fortunately all I have to do is to copy-paste them from Reviewing the Kanji (that site is gold) into my deck. I estimate I'll need about a week of efficient timeboxing before all the stories are in place.
I'm also making mnemonics for 3000 hanzi at the moment, and intend to use the same method there, except that I'll go in order of reading this time (since I already know most of the radicals). I've already discovered a lot of phonetic elements without checking the dictionary. :)
Before I learned the method described in RtK, I hated the kanji, but now I like them a lot. They are very interesting. I'd say you don't really need RtK, though. You have the Internet to help you find an order now. I use Wiktionary a lot, because it's so versatile, but I'm sure there are more specialized dictionaries too.
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leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6542 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog
| Message 19 of 20 19 December 2010 at 3:41am | IP Logged |
Desertbandit wrote:
people who did NOT use remember the Kanji how did you do it? |
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I used Heisig, but a lot of people who don't like it really like
Kanji ABC
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taqseem Newbie Switzerland Joined 5686 days ago 34 posts - 47 votes Studies: English
| Message 20 of 20 26 December 2010 at 12:28pm | IP Logged |
you can use so called chain method devised by V.Smolensky. follow the link below for details
http://www.susi.ru/kanji/ChMethod.html
Edited by taqseem on 26 December 2010 at 12:29pm
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