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Can someone enlighten me (On / Kun readings) - kaz03 - 2014-02-01
Hi I'm new to the site though I have been lurking for a while, researching other member's methodologies on learning japanese. As of now, I'm about halfway to RTK 1 and I wanna ask to those who have already finished RTK1 since if I remember it right, on and kun readings aren't introduced until RTK2.
So after finishing RTK1 do you guys re-study the on and kun reading of the kanjis you learned from RTK1? Or should I start early on learning the on/kun readings while I'm still halfway on the book.
Also I'm quite confused on how core2k works. Correct me if I'm wrong, it contains 2000 words or phrases which are common to the language right? So should I compliment it with my current study of RTK1 or wait and start it when I finish RTK1?
Can someone enlighten me (On / Kun readings) - Aikynaro - 2014-02-01
It's up to you. If you have the time and the motivation whatever you do is unlikely to hurt. If you think a way of doing things is worthwhile, try it.
That said, sitting around and learning on and kun readings is probably a waste of time. It's never too early to start learning words, IMO - but learning readings divorced from words is essentially worthless. But I am sure someone else disagrees (and, uh - I never finished RTK, so I guess you're not even asking me - but whatever).
If you have the time to start core2k or anything else that teaches you some actual Japanese while doing RTK, I think there's no reason not to. RTK is a painfully long slog with very little feeling of reward along the way, so getting into some actual Japanese is a good thing and gives some feeling of accomplishment. But it's up to you. You could invest that time into finishing RTK earlier if you're feeling motivated.
Can someone enlighten me (On / Kun readings) - kaz03 - 2014-02-01
Thanks for the input, you do have a point there.
I was already quite leaning in dropping the on/kun until I reach RTK2 before I posted here so it kinda helped me on making a firm decision and based from what I've skimmed through the topics here and with your suggestion it would benefit me much if I start core2k now as just studying RTK alone kinda bores me off.
Actually I took up learning japanese because I love reading light novels, mangas and movies. As childish as it seems, it really drove and motivated me to learn the language in because I don't wanna wait for translations which can be painstakingly long.
As for the light novel part how much jlpt proficiency would you people think requires for me to properly read one?
Can someone enlighten me (On / Kun readings) - Linval - 2014-02-01
kaz03 Wrote:As childish as it seems, it really drove and motivated me to learn the language in because I don't wanna wait for translations which can be painstakingly long.What better reason is there ?
As for the light novel part how much jlpt proficiency would you people think requires for me to properly read one?
Your JLPT score grades your ability to pass the text, not to read a light novel. Do as I did ; buy one and see how it goes from there. I started up japanese (partially) for the same reasons as you, so I got mangas / video games / novels very early in the process. Even though I couldn't understand much back then, it was (still is) a real motivator for me to pick one of them up every now and again and marvel at how many new kanjis / words / phrases / sentences I can recognize and understand.
Can someone enlighten me (On / Kun readings) - riogray - 2014-02-01
I would love to have some enlightenment as well. I thought I'd use the rather broad topic for my question. So far I have been studying RtK in German, but now I am at the point where I have to invent my own stories. The problem is, that I am utterly bored when I make up my own stories. I can't use the ones on this website, because they are in English and the keywords and/or the primitives have a different meaning. I did find an Anki deck, which has stories, but (my opinion, no offense to the creator) they just don't stick with me.
So now I have a few option:
1. Switch to English. I would prefer not having to do this. It's a lot of unnecessary work. Has anyone done it and can give me an opinion on how hard this was?
2. Keep on boring myself with inventing my own stories. Here I would like to know: Does making the stories up get much easier and less boring?
3. Find another story set online. Anyone here who has his stories in German and who would be willing to share them with me and/or knows of someone else who would do so?
Can someone enlighten me (On / Kun readings) - riogray - 2014-02-01
Wow I just realized that there are German stories on this website. I feel rather stupid for not having noticed before. That's a huge help.