sage74 Groupie United States Joined 5249 days ago 40 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 9 of 26 21 October 2010 at 4:15pm | IP Logged |
Up to frame 800 in RTK, Im going to focus on finishing it by next month!
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sage74 Groupie United States Joined 5249 days ago 40 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 10 of 26 25 October 2010 at 3:22pm | IP Logged |
Frame 900+ now, I will try incorporating more vocab into Anki soon.
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sage74 Groupie United States Joined 5249 days ago 40 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 11 of 26 27 October 2010 at 8:06pm | IP Logged |
At 1026 now. Half way through now.
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sage74 Groupie United States Joined 5249 days ago 40 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 12 of 26 02 November 2010 at 8:34pm | IP Logged |
Now I am at Frame 1125!
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sage74 Groupie United States Joined 5249 days ago 40 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 13 of 26 09 November 2010 at 9:52pm | IP Logged |
Now I have reached Frame 1427. I still want to keep pushing, and finish the book by next week friday.
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sage74 Groupie United States Joined 5249 days ago 40 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean
| Message 14 of 26 16 November 2010 at 9:57pm | IP Logged |
Up to Frame 1681, but I am slowing down a bit, this might take until thanksgiving to get done.
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polywannabe Newbie United States Joined 5126 days ago 35 posts - 43 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 15 of 26 18 November 2010 at 8:11pm | IP Logged |
Well done on your studies!!!
I do have a couple of suggestions for you:
After finishing RTK1, might be a good idea to learn the readings from Kanji Odyssey (KO), as oppose to RTK2. KO focuses both on colloquial usages as well as takes advantage of frequency - so you learn the most frequently used words first and can start reading magazines and books much quicker.
For Grammar I would recommend Tae Kim's grammar guide (free online here: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar). It will get you through the grammar in a very intuitive way. Also, it focuses on what I like to call 'true' Japanese grammar...which is basically casual Japanese. He also talks about polite Japanese but you should start with casual and then learn polite as just another form. Most other grammar guides use the polite form as the base...which would end up actually hurting you...down the road.
Keep it up!!
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divexo Groupie Australia Joined 5002 days ago 70 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Latin
| Message 16 of 26 21 November 2010 at 4:26pm | IP Logged |
Well done on doing so many Kanji's sage :) I assume this book is pretty good, guess I'll check it out once I'm ready
to learn them.
How does learning via this way help with reading Kanji like that from KO (thanks for links polywannabe +vote)? I've
heard it doesn't help too much as it only teaches how to read in a specific way..?
Also, did you learn kata/hira first? If so, how?
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