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| tryllid Groupie United States Joined 6045 days ago 58 posts - 60 votes  Studies: Japanese | Message 1 of 4 25 July 2008 at 3:20pm | IP Logged |
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Greetings.
I am at Kanji 1048 and am struggling to maintain my enthusiasm. I know it takes time to become fluent in a language, but I'm experiencing a bit of burnout. I've been RTKing for several months, but I still can't read. To try to find my inspiration again I am going to take some advice I read in a blog today: http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/stay-motivated/ 1) watch anime 2) listen to music 3) create a vision file and a vision movie - why I wanted to study Japanese to begin with and why I love the language. 4) watch more j-drama! The relentless march of kanji across the screen is difficult to stay positive. Tryllid. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6077 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 2 of 4 25 July 2008 at 3:33pm | IP Logged |
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I'd cut out the flashcards for now and start reading. Have you tried intermediate Japanese readers? I've got number 6 on the list, by the way ;)
My book has 9 short stories from a Japanese weekly magazine and they're a lot of fun. It will give you kanji in a context. You can try another search which will give you manga, but in my experience the books where you learn kanji from manga don't yield you much in terms of volume. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| neonqwerty Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6155 days ago 229 posts - 239 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 4 25 July 2008 at 3:54pm | IP Logged |
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When's the last time you took over 3 days off from studying? If it's been over two months, I suggest that you do so. People take suggestions of taking time off to be attacks on their motivation or character, but that's not what I mean when I suggest it. Rather, I think that our brains need time to assimilate the information, make links, and generally recover from the beating it takes via relentless study.
Something to think about. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Thuan Triglot Senior Member GermanyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6922 days ago 133 posts - 156 votes Speaks: Vietnamese, German*, English Studies: French, Japanese, Romanian, Swedish, Mandarin | Message 4 of 4 25 July 2008 at 5:35pm | IP Logged |
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Keep up the reviews and do something to boost your motivation. Don't forget, you actually want to know all these kanji. Read Kato Lomb's book, or Harry Farber's. Or browse through some of the articles on AJATT (very motivating). Or watch a J-Drama like Dragonzakura (for some reason this drama boosted my motivation immensely).
But keep up the reviews. Timebox. Set a timer, just 15 minutes. Just review the kanji for 15 minutes. And watch an anime afterwards. Or J-Drama. Kanji are cool. I stopped Heisig at 1900 and had to regret it later on. Now I've finally made my way through Heisig. And I'm reading mangas in Japanese! And working on novels and magazines in Japanese. All this is only possible because I've finished Heisig. It's like working out. Or practising Martial Arts. It's not always fun going to the dojo working on your katas and such. If you've been doing this for awhile, you know that these feelings don't last. Because you actually love what you're doing. There is a reason why you're learning kanji with RTK. You want to master Japanese. You want to read mangas and novels that were written for native Japanese. You want to read and write better Japanese than that dude from MY BOSS MY HERO. (Okay, Nagase Tomoya's actually a cool guy). At least, I do. And I guess and hope that you and everybody else that has bought RTK shares this dream and passion of mine. Listen to your favourite Japanese songs (what are your favourites, btw?), watch some Japanese TV shows (Music station, you can read along when they're performing their songs and recognize most of the kanjis), go to AJATT or ReTK to meet like-minded people, relax, chill out, take a walk, practise some Karate katas, eat some sushi, come back and do your reviews. If 15 minutes are too long, just do reviews for ten minutes. I can assure you that nothing beats the experience of finishing RTK. I have dozens of mangas and novels lying around. All in Japanese. Not that I can read the novels yet, but I just love open up a random page and recognize 100% of the kanji in most of the times. And read a few pages. Now I'm just waiting to finish the first novel in Japanese. That might feel better than the experience of graduating from RTK1. Good luck. Ganbatte! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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