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Using Japanese websites for remembering kanji - Jericho - 2006-12-02

A method I've recently started using to help myself not only remember, but also pronounce the kanji, is visiting japanese websites and reading as much as I can. The kanji that are new to me or that I don't know how to pronounce, I use Rikaichan to help me. Although I believe this to be somewhat in contrast to the teachings of RtK, it still gives me a lot of satisfaction when I find myself able to read a section of a page entirely without help after spending some time using this method.

You are free to try out both the program, if you haven't already, and the method described above and tell me what you think the pros and cons are.

The actual reason for my posting, however, is that I'm looking for more suitable sites than the one I'm currently visiting. That website is http://www.4gamer.net/
It's a games site with news and reviews for pc games of both japanese and american origin. The site provides a good balance between learning kanji, and enjoying what you read.
However, I'm now looking for some alternatives, possibly easier ones. For although it's entertaining enough to read kanji-ridden articles in japanese, I believe it would be more productive if I started with something more easy.
Does anyone of you have a suggestion for a site with more or less easy (or at least easier) kanji? If so, I'd be glad to hear about it.

Thanks in advance.

Using Japanese websites for remembering kanji - Piitaa - 2006-12-02

Well, don't know about websites with easy Kanji, but you could try looking for children's stories online. Although those can still have some deceptively tricky language, at least they'll have easier kanji.

The site I'm using myself is the Asahi newspaper's website, but can't say that it has easy kanji... rather the opposite XD

Using Japanese websites for remembering kanji - ファブリス - 2006-12-03

http://anime.goo.ne.jp/polamelu/pc/book.html

The Reading Tutor is pretty good, it's got vocabulary on a side frame.
http://contest.thinkquest.gr.jp/tqj1999/20190/

Bilingual Okinawan Folktales
http://soasato.at.infoseek.co.jp/OkinawanFolktales.html

Using Japanese websites for remembering kanji - Jericho - 2006-12-04

Holy crap, those sites are all awesome! Exactly what I've been looking for, and more. Especially that reading tutor!

Come to think of it, that reading tutor looks a bit familiar. I might have encountered it in the past when I wasn't yet seriously interested in learning the kanji. Now that I've found it to be an exhilerating journey (even without the use of RtK, heavens forgive me), I'll put this site to really good use.

If nobody else has been using this site yet, I highly recommend it to everyone! I've yet to reach a conclusive verdict on the other two, though.

Thanks a bunch, ファブリス!

And yeah, Piitaa, I'd been using the Asahi site for a while, too, but it's just too exhausting and complex. I'm definitely better off with simpler materials like those offered in the above posted sites. =D

Using Japanese websites for remembering kanji - watashimo - 2007-08-06

This is an excellent idea. This probably works best, when you're on some Japanese websites about your favourite topics, something that you're passionate about. At least, that's how I learnt English (reading books about films, browsing the internet to find interviews, reviews, message boards etc.)

So, can anybody recommend me some Japanese websites with film reviews?

Using Japanese websites for remembering kanji - Chadokoro_K - 2007-08-06

After reading this thread I decided to use Fabrice's Kanji sight-reading practice tool on an article from the Asahi newspaper website (http://www.asahi.com). I am happy to report that since finishing RTK 1 ALL of the kanji in this article turned blue! The only thing that remained black were the kana. Yeah! Although my rusty Japanese allowed me to understand about 80% of the content, I still need to learn to pronounce and understand all of those compound words.

Using Japanese websites for remembering kanji - Megaqwerty - 2007-08-06

Jericho Wrote:That website is http://www.4gamer.net/ It's a games site with news and reviews for pc games of both japanese and american origin.
Ha, that strikes me as terribly funny as I always thought PC games, at least the good ol' American kind with, you know, guns, were quite unpopular in the land of the rising sun (presumably in lieu of visual novels or something to that effect). Anyway, site noted, bookmarked. I'll peruse it when I'm more awesome and able to read a little more than just the titles of the games in question.