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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4970 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 849 of 1702 23 March 2013 at 1:31am | IP Logged |
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I've been helping (more cheering on) my classmates to finish their speeches. Deadlines are coming up. Also, I got back into Potter today. I'm giving Rikai-sama a workout in the process. I finally am turning off the furigana though. I think that's a step in the right direction. What's good is that I'm enjoying the story again. I haven't gotten into Harry Potter books in a while so I didn't know if I would really enjoy it again or not.
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4970 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 850 of 1702 23 March 2013 at 6:03pm | IP Logged |
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I reviewed 100 flashcards in my SRS deck.. I still have 400 due cards. /sigh. I am thinking I'm bored of the flashcards and want to try something else for a change of pace like memrise or iknow. I got a happy text message from a friend in class - she said she was addicted to lang-8. I used to be hooked on that site too and so I think that's really cool. But I found that I wasn't able to post in Japanese myself very effectively and so I made myself stop until that changed. It's fun correcting people's English and meeting people but you have to balance it so you're learning too. Anyway I hope she keeps using it. Having real life friends language nerds to share with is cool.
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4970 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 851 of 1702 26 March 2013 at 4:38am | IP Logged |
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Another Japanese class. I'm kind of reaching a point with the class where I wonder if I'd be better off self studying. Although I study Japanese every day, I don't study for the class specifically. So I don't have the right answer every time he calls on me but the other students.. omg. They are far worse off. And it slows the class down a lot. It's not much fun when you're sitting there twiddling your thumbs getting nothing out of whatever he's trying to teach someone else because you grasped it ages ago.
I was playing on iknow.com. I previously only used the mobile versions of the software but I like it on my PC a lot more, even though I love the touch interface on my phone/ipad. On the PC I have rikai-sama going so I can instantly get tons of kanji info without it slowing down my studying. I like that. And also in the example sentences it's kind of nice to quickly look up a word you haven't seen. This didn't happen too much since I'm still reviewing step 2 and I know a lot of words from step 2 already anyway. But it's nice. I think I read a comment that the grammar difficulty doesn't go beyond JPLT 4 level with this website. That's such a shame. I was hoping it was just because the 1st 2000 words are sort of the basic ones.. especially the 1-1000. Oh also I'm really enjoying Bleach (the anime). I loved this anime for the 1st two seasons and then it somehow got boring. This was about a year and a half ago or so. I still kept watching periodically when there wasn't anything else. Now, for whatever reason, I'm really enjoying the episodes again. I don't know if it's me or the show got better. I'm on roughly episode 240. I watch on Crunchyroll. The video quality just got a little better with recent episodes - it went to widescreen and flirted with 720p but is back to 480p... anyway I'm looking forward to the higher quality video. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6406 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 852 of 1702 26 March 2013 at 8:09am | IP Logged |
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You probably know this, but just in case... On iKnow, you can click on a button next to the word to get kanji animation and stuff.
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| Hasi Diglot Senior Member Austria Joined 5902 days ago 120 posts - 133 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 853 of 1702 26 March 2013 at 9:01am | IP Logged |
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I am about 700 words into the Core deck, I am using the optimized version though, and so far I have really only
encountered easy sentence structures. In a way I think it is good because it makes you focus more on the vocab. That's why a lot of people have a grammar deck as well. speaking of: how is is going with you 8000+ sentence deck? are you still using it? and if so, would you recommend it? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4659 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 854 of 1702 26 March 2013 at 10:04am | IP Logged |
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Core has easy sentence structures all the way through, which is why I don't use
it...that and I don't like being told what to learn every day. You shouldn't have to learn your 6000th word in a beginner level sentence. If you are using it, you have to read other stuff to actually get some challenging grammar. Edited by stifa on 26 March 2013 at 10:05am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| betelgeuzah Diglot Groupie Finland Joined 4187 days ago 51 posts - 82 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: Japanese, Italian | Message 855 of 1702 26 March 2013 at 10:33am | IP Logged |
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Why make learning harder than needs to be? What's the merit of learning vocab with "harder" material?
Not seeing it. Not saying you don't need anything else to dive into native materials. Grammar deck goes a long way to practice both vocab and grammar. I'd go as far as to say it's better to learn them separately instead of stuffing every card with new grammar AND vocab. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4659 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 856 of 1702 26 March 2013 at 10:44am | IP Logged |
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You don't see the merit of learning the words you come across instead of in some
standardised list made by someone who didn't even use it? And I didn't mean that you have to stuff them with new grammar, but taking sentences from what you're reading and watching might be more enjoyable (=easier to learn). And the most useful words aren't necessarily the 6000 most common - I notice that I learn mostly common words, but a lot of the words I learn are not even among the 10k most common, despite being important words in whatever I'm reading, listening to, etc. at the time. And you use a gramamr deck? Do you use the grammar dictionay as well? Significanly different things might translate similarly into English to fit the context. However, have I started anew today, I would have used the Core2k while using my active study time on grammar and moving on after that. Edited by stifa on 26 March 2013 at 10:50am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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