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2001 Kanji Odyssey & iKnow - terryspanky - 2011-07-14
Hello. What are the system/methods you use to study kanji?
I'm having a hard time in every kanji like for example 四
四 よん four
四つ よっつ four
四日 よっか 4th. of the month
四時 よじ 4:00
四 し four
四月 しがつ April
四国 しこく Shikoku
there are many readings in 四 and I have to memorize all the readings/meaning/stroke and study it in this order:
meaning(english meaning)
reading(furigana)
expression(kanji)
I put this words in a category 四 deck w/ pronunciation to anki.
But I just realize applying it to anki and assorting it with sounds are consuming a lot of my time than actually studying it...
It almost took me 1 month studying 一 to 四
From time to time I check iKnow and I take all of my time understanding the sentences. And on that day I only memorize 3 kanjis because I'm also memorizing all the words encountered in that sentence
Any suggestions to make my progress faster?
2001 Kanji Odyssey & iKnow - jishera - 2011-07-14
Are you trying to memorize all kinds of words/expressions that are associated with each kanji? For numbers, I think it would be much easier to see them in context in a textbook. They normally go over time, months, weeks, etc. with examples and practice. Knowing the "grammatical" part of these words might help you remember them better. You can also try to "divide and conquer" by learning the writing first, then the pronunciation. For example, April is made up of "four" and "month/moon" so that should be easy to remember. 4th day of the month is "four" and "day". 4:00 is "four" and "time". Once you have the written part down, then just memorize the pronunciation. "Four" is either "yo" "yon" or "shi" so that narrows things down. "Ji" is time, "gatsu" is month, etc.
You generally only want to add one new thing each time you learn something. So if you are trying to do sentences and there are multiple things in the sentence that you don't know, that's not good! Try the "i + 1" method, where you only add one new thing to learn on top of what you already know.
Unless you have to do it this way for a class, I would just look at a few example words for each kanji and then move on to another one. Otherwise you'll burn yourself out! Try to learn them in context instead of just stand-alone words. Either through a textbook, reading stories, etc. You'll probably remember them better.
2001 Kanji Odyssey & iKnow - PensukeD - 2011-07-14
Wow I've had the same problems as you over the past few months. There's so much vocab to learn and when you look up more example sentences to understand them, there's ever MORE new vocab.
I personally gave up learning from Sample sentences(for now) and just learn by making a simple vocab deck. (I think it was overture2112 who said that way, it's basically 0+1) It's not ideal because I lose context but I feel a lot more motivated now because I don't have to worry about grammar and irrelevant vocab.
Also, one thing that helped my studying immensely was to not learn new facts from anki directly. Before, I just added new cards to anki and turned on "x new cards per day" and left it at that. I failed a huge amount of cards and some cards are easily forgotten after a few days. Now, I suspend all my new cards and I study say 40 new vocab per day using pen and paper. (and recommended to me by Rich_f, the Iversen method) At the end of the day, I select all the vocab I learned that day (easy for me, because I learn in the order I add my vocab) and gave them a random tag. Then I just use anki to CRAM the cards with that tag. If I fail anything, I make a note to learn them like a new fact later.
I really hope I didn't confuse you. My use of my words are really poor in English despite it being my native language.