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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4836 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 1 of 256 28 April 2012 at 10:26pm | IP Logged |
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I've been reading a few other logs here lately and I've decided to start my own, mostly
so I can track my own progress (or lack thereof :-)). I decided to learn Japanese late last year and spent some time in November and December solidifying the hiragana and skimming one or two Japanese language books from the library. By Christmas I decided that I was really going to have a go at learning Japanese and became (relatively) serious. I've used my daily commute to get through the Michel Thomas Foundation course (which I found at the library). I'm now working my way through Pimsleur. I've done the Japanese I and 25/30 of Japanese II. I'll probably work through Japanese III and then start going over it all again. For the Kanji, I've recently started using Reviewing the Kanji (http://kanji.koohii.com/) and I've now seen just over 200 kanji. For vocabulary I've been using Memrise (http://www.memrise.com/). I've harvested all the vocabulary in the N5 course and I've added a few other more focussed courses to improve coverage (Adverbs, Dates etc.). I have a few books as well. I've read "Making Sense of Japanese", which was interesting, and will no doubt come in handy when I learn a bit more. "All About Particles" had good reviews and has lived up to them all. The only grammar book I have right now is "Japanese Step by Step". It seems to be quite helpful. However, when I bought it at the start of the year, the Japanese writing system looked daunting. Now I it's use of romaji to be quaint. I feel that it's not going to be long before "quaint" becomes "annoying". Still, there's plenty of grammar to get to grips with in the meantime. I have a Penguin parallel text, "Short Stories in Japanese". I spent about an hour with it 2-3 months ago and it was obviously way too early. It'll be waiting for me, when I'm ready. Finally I have a Japanese picture dictionary that covers about 1500 words or so. I've not used it much yet, but I bought it because my daughter found similar French, Spanish and Italian picture books quite handy when she was working through here GCSEs. If I'd found Memrise earlier, then I would probably not have bothered with this. For grammar, I've started to work through Tae Kim (http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar). So far everything I've learned has been the "polite" form, whereas this starts off with the "plain" form and then introduces the "polite" style later on. Should be interesting. I don't have much free time at home - I can generally manage an hour or two at most for memrise + RTK + Tae Kim. The commute, however, gives me about another 90 minutes of audio to add. Overall that means I'm managing about 18 hours of Japanese a week. I feel I work best if I have a target to aim for. So I've decided that I'm going to work towards the JLPT N5. I don't really know what's involved there, or how many hours of study would be expected for that. Anyone have any suggestions? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4872 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes Speaks: German*, English, Japanese | Message 2 of 256 29 April 2012 at 3:43am | IP Logged |
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I think you're already well on your way. Keep it up! :)
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