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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 457 of 1702 10 August 2012 at 7:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Heh. I quit before Nodame was even introduced as a character when I was watching the jdrama for the 1st time. The flashbacks to him being in Europe and wanting to conduct as a child and being in an airplane were just too much for me.
Just reviewing what I know from RTK 2 so far... I know 1 chinese reading for 537 kanji. Heck not bad at all. Of course this is because you get 4 for 1 and then 3 for 1 and then 2 for 1 up until now but still, I'm happy. I'm adding the next chapter to my deck now - 1 time Chinese readings. No more freebies. Thankfully I find it much easier to learn sounds to kanji than I did learning hiragana and katakana. The fact that these characters have a meaning (and a story of sorts) to associate it with helps a lot. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 458 of 1702 11 August 2012 at 4:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm throwing out (or putting on hold anyway) my vocab deck that's grown to about 1000 cards. There's a lot of words in there that aren't sticking so well. I think I mentioned I was looking up words in the dictionary based on English subtitles while watching anime. Well I added way too many synonyms etc that looked interesting but really aren't used so often and I don't need to learn that many words for the same concept all at once.
I'm starting a new vocab deck based on this N3 vocab book I ordered from Japan. I started chapter 1. In the 1st section it gives 71 words so I made a deck for that. I think I know about 5 to 10% of the words already which is hardly any at all so I just added all of them. I was pleased that all of them have Rikai-sama audio. So I have this new deck. I'm using the "leitner" method of my app for this deck - I want to try this instead of the spaced repetition. I'm even thinking of trying other flashcard apps - I would like to get a flashcard app going that uses a really nice Leitner method instead of spaced repetition. So the plan is to "master" all the cards testing Japanese to English and then switch it up to do English to Japanese. I think all of these N3 words are close enough to everyday words that's it worth making an attempt to become fluent in them as opposed to just passive recognition. The reason why I like Leitner better - at least for learning new words - is that I can study the same words 10 minutes later, then an hour later, and a few hours later the same day. With spaced repetition it just puts it off for the next day at the earliest pretty much. For learning new words I don't think that really cuts it. I think you need to drill it again sooner (if you can make the time). Oh yeah. I'm really getting back into classical music at the moment thanks to Nodame Cantibile. I got Boston Pops, London Symphony Orchestra, and Mozart playing on my Pandora as I study. Been a while since I listened to Classical music I'm enjoying that. Edited by kraemder on 11 August 2012 at 4:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4583 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 459 of 1702 11 August 2012 at 11:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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I know this might not be classical music, but did you watch the anime, Fate/Zero? The
soundtrack is just so beautiful. I can't find the words, actually. I found some tracks on Youtube, here's a link so you can check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ4Uy7N54IY&feature=relmfu Kajiura Yuki (梶浦 由記) is a great music composer, in my opinion. Her music is so touching. Edited by Woodsei on 11 August 2012 at 11:17am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 460 of 1702 11 August 2012 at 4:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I did watch the anime Fate Zero a little bit a while back and it's on my queue to watch again. I'll pay attention
to the music when I do. I've been meaning to download the music to animes that I like but haven't gotten around to it yet. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 461 of 1702 11 August 2012 at 4:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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New idea for learning kanji sounds. Probably something people do anyway but I haven't heh. Make a
separate kanji deck to go with a vocabulary deck to study the kanji I'm working on.. hmm I could even just add the new kanji cards to the same vocabulary deck. The key here is to test the sounds of the kanji separately from the words (since I want to know the sounds for the kanji on their own too). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Takato Tetraglot Senior Member HungaryRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4834 days ago 249 posts - 276 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, EnglishB2, GermanB2, Japanese | Message 462 of 1702 11 August 2012 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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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 463 of 1702 11 August 2012 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
Mostly for reading. Knowing how a kanji is pronounced gives me a lot of confidence while reading. If I'm reading printed material there won't always be furigana to remind how to say a word. I've found times where I knew the meaning of what I was looking at but not how to say it and that was pretty lame. I also think it will help with learning new vocabulary. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| 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 464 of 1702 11 August 2012 at 9:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I made a set of kanji cards to go with my latest vocabulary deck I made for chapter 1 of this N3 book.. 104 in all. Some of it is review. One kanji wasn't in Heisig's 1st book. It includes all the sounds they use in the vocabulary (almost exclusively Chinese sounds too). And I threw on some additional meanings to the kanji to the Heisig one's. I used to think those additional meanings would confuse me but they don't at all. That was silly.
Making flashcards burns me out so much. I want to make cards for the next section too but I really do not have the energy. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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