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Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - mezbup - 2015-04-28
I finished reading 阪急電車！ Awesome novel btw if anyone is looking for a recommendation. It's a novel that takes place (almost) entirely on a train. Each chapter is from the perspective of a passenger listening to and observing other passengers on the train and reflecting on their own lives and occasionally interacting with the other passengers, then the next chapter is from the perspective of the passenger who was being observed in the previous one and so it goes on. Great book.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - EratiK - 2015-05-10
I guess it's time for my yearly achievement post.
I wrote my first message to a Japanese person last week, making my own eyes bleed. Well I'll correct that in due time.
I got through about 50 hours of J-subbed anime material (10 movies and 105 episodes). Progress is steady but slow. I'm starting to think the goal of 100 hours of drama + 100 hours of anime before december for N2 might be too high. I still haven't read a LN. Not sure I'll even have the time to study properly for the test, and if I'm not ready I won't take it.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - TurtleBear - 2015-06-03
Great job, EratiK. 105 episodes sounds like a lot of work. If you don't mind my asking, what kind of anime did you watch?
I have two rather big milestone achievements as of today. Last night, I finished playing Tales of Zestiria in Japanese. It took me two almost two months of playing at least a few hours every day to complete. Of course, most of that time was used looking up new words, kanji, and grammar and then putting all of those things together to find out what on earth the characters were actually saying. It was a great experience, though, and I feel like I understand Japanese so much better than when I began.
Also, I now have 5780 words added in my Core deck with 67% of those words matured and a 97% accuracy rate on matured cards. I should finish the deck in the next week or so before moving onto more reading.
Now I'm wondering if I should study RTK3 a little bit each day or just add kanji to my deck as I encounter them.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - EratiK - 2015-06-03
It's not much really, I'm positive a lot of people here have clocked hundreds of hours of drama.
I watched the kind that I could find with J-subs, that didn't seem too hard, too uninteresting and too unrealistic. Slam Dunk, Kinda'ichi, Servant x Service, Magic Kaito.
For the next chunk of 50 hours I had Fairy Tail planned but it's probably a bad idea. I feel like trying something new and I've been wanting to play old J-rpgs for awhile (typically the DQ/FF franchises), a translator I know told me it's a good exercice and it seems it worked out for you.
About RTK3, the more I think about it, the more someone should do a RTK3 Lite list someday (with like 500 kanji), there's such a gap between things you have a good chance to meet and stuff I've never encountered outside of the book.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - Raulsen - 2015-06-03
TurtleBear Wrote:Great job, EratiK. 105 episodes sounds like a lot of work. If you don't mind my asking, what kind of anime did you watch?Niiiiice! I'm doing something similar with Vesperia ATM! Out of curiosity, how did you handle the material from the game and incorporate it into your studies? Specifically, did you make any attempt to transcribe the cutscenes? Or, for your Anki deck, did you try and write out example sentences to accompany the words you found?
I have two rather big milestone achievements as of today. Last night, I finished playing Tales of Zestiria in Japanese. It took me two almost two months of playing at least a few hours every day to complete. Of course, most of that time was used looking up new words, kanji, and grammar and then putting all of those things together to find out what on earth the characters were actually saying. It was a great experience, though, and I feel like I understand Japanese so much better than when I began.
Also, I now have 5780 words added in my Core deck with 67% of those words matured and a 97% accuracy rate on matured cards. I should finish the deck in the next week or so before moving onto more reading.
Now I'm wondering if I should study RTK3 a little bit each day or just add kanji to my deck as I encounter them.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - TurtleBear - 2015-06-04
EratiK: That sounds interesting. I'd like to go back and re-watch some of my favorite anime with J-subs eventually, but it seems hard to find them. Maybe I just don't have the right resources.
I'm assuming a JRPG script will would be more challenging than most anime taking place in the modern world, but at least the interactivity can make studying a bit more interesting.
I've heard that about RTK 3, particularly that Heisig might have included too many kanji related to religion. But in Tales of Zestiria, two kanji I encountered a lot were 祀 and 祓, which don't seem like they'd be too helpful in the real world but might appear in fantasy settings.
Raulsen: To be honest, other than playing the game and trying to understand the dialogue, I didn't incorporate anything other than new kanji into my studies. If you've played any of the more recent Tales games, you'll know they've moved away from the text bubbles and now do a movie format with subtitles. So each time a character spoke, I would pause the game and try to read the sentence. If there were any words I didn't know, I would look them up and try reading the sentence again. Most of the time, I'd read the sentence at least a few times or until I felt I understood it well enough to move on.
Basically, while knowing 5000 words sounds like a lot, it isn't, especially in a fantasy or sci-fi setting. Almost every conversation had at least a dozen words I didn't know, and trying to turn those all into flash cards would have been, in my opinion, an inefficient use of time. Either way, many of the words I looked up several times I now understand just because of actual usage. I want there to come a day where I no longer have to use Anki and can learn Japanese words as I do English—through repetition and context. I've decided that 6000 will be a good enough base.
Anyway, I love the Tales series, and playing Vesperia a few years ago was what eventually led me to studying Japanese. Maybe I should pick up a copy of that in Japanese one of these days.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - anotherjohn - 2015-06-06
I just encountered the word 油断大敵 in the wild for the first time
Of course, being a koohii regular it was one of the first words I learnt
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - Splatted - 2015-06-07
I actually never made that connection. Always wondered what it meant though.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - john555 - 2015-06-24
Today I finished reading a complete short story (eight pages long) in Japanese. This is the first complete piece of real Japanese I've read. This is a short story in a real book (hardcover), meant for native Japanese adults, which I borrowed from the public library. So yes it's an achievement (for me).
Parts of it nearly made my brain explode while slogging through it, but I got through the whole thing.
Hopefully from here it gets easier....
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - sholum - 2015-06-24
Finished the last week of 日本語総まとめN1読解. I couldn't finish the test (seventh day) in the prescribed time, only six of ten questions. And after answering all the questions, I found I had missed four of them. This was definitely the most difficult part of the book.
I also read some Wikipedia articles about electrical resistance and conductance in Japanese; though frequently taking links to relevant articles describing words I didn't know (荷電, 伝導率, などなど), I understood quite a bit of it (though it helps that I already know the concepts from my studies). I even learned an equation that describes the amount of resistance a resistor will have.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - muteki99 - 2015-06-26
I finished Core10k today. What a relief.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - dtcamero - 2015-06-28
muteki99 Wrote:I finished Core10k today. What a relief.well done. it's a bitch but totally worth it. you now have everything you need to coast to fluency by just consuming media. the hard work is over. cheers.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - datrukup - 2015-06-30
I finally have 1,000 subs2srs cards that I am actively reviewing. I hope to add 2k more this month.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - muteki99 - 2015-06-30
dtcamero Wrote:If only it were that simple, but it's progressmuteki99 Wrote:I finished Core10k today. What a relief.well done. it's a bitch but totally worth it. you now have everything you need to coast to fluency by just consuming media. the hard work is over. cheers.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - klloud - 2015-07-06
I just completed 3000 cards on my Core 6k today. After 241 days, having 226 days studied, I have 1718 Mature cards and 1282 Young+Learn. With an average of 12 new cards per day, I am pretty satisfied with how far I have gone. I if had doubled my pace from the start, I would be finishing the whole deck today, but I don't believe that my retention wouldn't be any good. I'm currently with 88.47% of retention, but I will do my best to bring that to 90%.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - sparky14 - 2015-07-16
Lately, I've been reading some pretty difficult stuff and not understanding it at all. I felt like I wasn't improving, so I decided to go back and play a Jap game that I played months ago. When I began playing it, I could pretty much understand everything. It's funny, when I played it back then, I had to slave through it, but now, I think I'll be able to understand the story and not just get the gist of it.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - cophnia61 - 2015-07-20
Finally today I went back to kanji production, I studied 1671 cards in 265 mins, all in a rush (thank you caffeine ._. ):
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I failed 10% of the cards but I must say I reviewed them in RtK order and I think this was a huge help! But it's ok considering it's from a very long time that I don't write kanji anymore.
I must add I didn't actually wrote them phisically on paper, but I just visualized them on my head.
This was more or less a test to find problematic kanji. As for now I will re-start my RtK production deck for those 10% failed cards only, and I will keep the other cards suspended. Then I will finish RtK with the 500 remaining kanji (I did RtK lite at that time). And when reviews will be low enough I will eventually unsuspend the other kanji and put them on long starting interval.
Also the 10% I failed were most of the time little details, distraction and so on.
I am tired as f**k but I'm happy I've done this and I felt the need to share this little success with you all
PS: I have multiple japanese words beside the heisig keyword, and I suggest everyone to at least try this if you have problem with heisig keywords (too generic, too similar, too abstact and so on)!
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - TurtleBear - 2015-09-23
It looks as though this thread has died, so I'll be the one to resurrect it. I like nothing better than hearing about others' achievements. (:
A little over a week ago, I finished reading my first untranslated visual novel—穢翼のユースティア. It took me over three months to complete, and, although I didn't time myself, I'd wager somewhere between 200~300 hours. Honestly, I didn't enjoy the experience as much as I'd hoped. By the third month, I was ready to be done, and I only managed to keep reading out of sheer resilience. Nevertheless, my reading comprehension improved a lot, which has led to Japanese feeling a lot less overwhelming than before. And to tack on a bit of bragging at the end, I did this without a text hooker or parser.
Maybe not as important of an achievement, but I've matured over 90% of my Core6K deck. I know I said earlier in this thread that I didn't plan on continuing with vocabulary flashcards, but for lack of anything better to do, I've decided to carry on with 10K. I'm planning on spacing this one out over a much longer period of time, though. In any case, I've come to the realization that SRS works well for me, so continuing seems like a good idea.
Next on my list of things to do is play よるのないくに when it's released. Amazing soundtrack, awesome looking game play, and cute anime girls? I'm in.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - EratiK - 2015-09-23
TurtleBear Wrote:It looks as though this thread has died, so I'll be the one to resurrect it. I like nothing better than hearing about others' achievements. (:I feel for you, I'm going through my first raw VN right now. But I purposely picked something short: 月面のアヌビス on SNES emulator. Most VNs there are horror but they are few, so it beats browsing the endless sea of recent titles on VNDB to find something interesting.
A little over a week ago, I finished reading my first untranslated visual novel—穢翼のユースティア. It took me over three months to complete, and, although I didn't time myself, I'd wager somewhere between 200~300 hours. Honestly, I didn't enjoy the experience as much as I'd hoped. By the third month, I was ready to be done, and I only managed to keep reading out of sheer resilience. Nevertheless, my reading comprehension improved a lot, which has led to Japanese feeling a lot less overwhelming than before. And to tack on a bit of bragging at the end, I did this without a text hooker or parser.
As for achievements, I recently finished my first raw JRPG, FFV. A good experience as what you have to read is more an environment than a text (so a plus for future irl interactions), but the end game (a quarter of the game) had a lot more gaming than reading since you know the environment and less and less plot points are developed. So not bad but I'm seeing the appeal of VNs now considering how time-cost effective they are (in terms of pure reading).
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - TurtleBear - 2015-09-24
EratiK: I'd never heard of that title until now. I wasn't even aware that the SNES had VNs. Are you enjoying the story so far? How's the reading difficulty?
My problem is that I know exactly which VNs I want to read. There's Baldr Sky, which is 4.6 MB of text in total and Muramasa, which is supposedly one of the most difficult within the medium to read. I'm afraid if I attempted either of those right now, I'd end up suffering burnout. I tend to get stressed, so I already know that would be more detrimental in the long run than taking a break and doing something easier for awhile.
Reading FFV, what do you mean "what you have to read is more of an environment"? I've never played the game.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - EratiK - 2015-09-24
TurtleBear Wrote:EratiK: I'd never heard of that title until now. I wasn't even aware that the SNES had VNs. Are you enjoying the story so far? How's the reading difficulty?The story isn't captivating unfortunately, it's your standard parasitic alien infiltrating an isolated community story. But it was the only science-fiction one so I started by that (the other VNs are about deaths in highschools or in remote villages). The difficulty isn't great but I still learn a ton, like I never knew 振り- had so many compounds: 振り回す、振り向く、振り切る、振り返る...
About FFV:
I was just comparing reading experiences within different media. Basically books are big walls narrative of text, VNs are small walls of text with limited interaction, manga have a lot of visual context so infering is easier.
But FFV -- and possibly JRPGs in general -- everything is more... intricate. There's a story with regular dialogues, there are pieces of lore that are normal texts, there's tutorials, and then there are menus: the action menu, the item menu, the magic menu, the job/ability menu, the config menu. You spend a lot of time reading the descriptions of things so you know when to use which spell, what piece of accessory gives you the best 魔防衛, what item boosts your 素早さ, etc.
You interact on a lot of levels and meta-levels and that's just like an environment to me.
Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - EratiK - 2015-11-14
Read my first thousand pages of manga (ボールルームへようこそ a very good title btw). Interesting but reading vertically is really slow, hence not very efficient, so I'm going to stop for now. I have a few vertical VNs and LNs, I'll get more practice eventually but it can't hurt to up my horizontal reading speed first.
RE: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - Zeina - 2015-11-15
I just hit 1000 kanji, and while that's not a lot, I feel awesome. I'm not surrounded by many Japanese learners, so this thread is a life-line.
It makes me happy because I know I'm that much closer to my goal.
*munches on cookie*
RE: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - sholum - 2015-11-15
I've now read the first 22 chapters of 盾の勇者の成り上がり (the web novel). I've been reading a chapter in thirty or forty minutes. While it's nothing too difficult, it's my first real experience with this kind of writing style (and I'm finding a number of phrases and words I don't know). I mean, I've read VNs before, but being able to read this kind of story without much difficulty (my only lapses in understanding being because of previously mentioned phrases and vocabulary) is really encouraging; I'm even able to imagine the scenes instead of just reading them!
My reading speed is still pretty slow, though...
RE: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here - Dudeist - 2015-11-16
(2015-11-15, 8:58 pm)Zeina Wrote: I just hit 1000 kanji, and while that's not a lot, I feel awesome. I'm not surrounded by many Japanese learners, so this thread is a life-line.
It makes me happy because I know I'm that much closer to my goal.
*munches on cookie*
Lets test new forum feature... and have a cookie, zen style.
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