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Thread: When You Become Fluent In Japanese.... Post: When You Become Fluent In Japanese.... Kanjiiz Wrote:What will you do such that will make all the hard work worth it? For me it's using all Japanese resources, from people to articles! Living there for a while would be great too, but if ... |
meiko452 | General discussion | 124 | 24,829 | 2011-05-02, 9:08 am | ||
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Thread: The 漢字 And Their Readings? Post: The 漢字 And Their Readings? Katsuo Wrote:Here is a list of ateji (government-approved assigned readings). By the way, Denshi Jisho, like many others, uses KANJIDIC as its source of data. KANJIDIC lists many readings including ... |
meiko452 | The Japanese language | 10 | 4,346 | 2011-05-02, 8:34 am | ||
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Thread: The 漢字 And Their Readings? Post: The 漢字 And Their Readings? chamcham Wrote:I think it's better to learn readings from actual words that you've seen. Otherwise, if you've never seen a kanji used in a word, there's no reason to memorize any readings for it. But... |
meiko452 | The Japanese language | 10 | 4,346 | 2011-05-02, 8:32 am | ||
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Thread: The 漢字 And Their Readings? Post: The 漢字 And Their Readings? Hashiriya Wrote:Special readings! Surprise! This is why you should study vocabulary based around a particular kanji you are trying to learn instead of just studying the actual kanji itself. This is m... |
meiko452 | The Japanese language | 10 | 4,346 | 2011-05-02, 8:25 am | ||
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Thread: The 漢字 And Their Readings? Post: The 漢字 And Their Readings? My question concerns the reading of the kanji. I am currently using Denshi Jisho at http://www.jisho.org as a reference. From the start, I was under the impression that the readings for a given kanj... |
meiko452 | The Japanese language | 10 | 4,346 | 2011-05-01, 9:08 pm | ||
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Thread: What Are The JLPT Level Equivalents In English? Post: What Are The JLPT Level Equivalents In English? In light of the comments, I inserted an example from Harry Potter. I originally considered using Harry Potter as an example, but because it is generally considered to be a young adult's novel I assum... |
meiko452 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 11 | 7,312 | 2011-03-25, 6:24 pm | ||
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Thread: What Are The JLPT Level Equivalents In English? Post: What Are The JLPT Level Equivalents In English? As someone on the outside looking in, its difficult to gauge the JLPT material. This question is aimed specifically for those of you who have taken the JLPT 1 and/or JLPT 2 or are at a Japanese readi... |
meiko452 | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 11 | 7,312 | 2011-03-25, 4:57 pm | ||
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Thread: List of Media to Avoid. Post: List of Media to Avoid. Teletubbies I don't know why, but they freak me out! America's Funniest Home Videos The Darwin Awards in prime example. Goggle the term if you're unfamiliar with it. Its also the title of a great m... |
meiko452 | General discussion | 18 | 4,073 | 2011-03-13, 12:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Why is 之字形 [frame 34] not in a dictionary? Post: Why is 之字形 [frame 34] not in a dictionary? JimmySeal Wrote:The word may have been in use when RTK2 was originally published. I can't say for sure. I reckon he had to make a stretch for that character because there are little or no compounds ... |
meiko452 | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 4,275 | 2011-03-13, 11:39 am | ||
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Thread: Why is 之字形 [frame 34] not in a dictionary? Post: Why is 之字形 [frame 34] not in a dictionary? JimmySeal Wrote:I can't find any evidence of this word being used in Japanese, though it looks to be fairly common in Chinese. It could be that it was used at one time and has since been replaced wit... |
meiko452 | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 4,275 | 2011-03-13, 11:10 am | ||
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Thread: Why is 之字形 [frame 34] not in a dictionary? Post: Why is 之字形 [frame 34] not in a dictionary? So, I just started RTK 2 yesterday and I come across frame 34 this morning. Kanji: 之 Compound: 之字形 しじけい Compound definition: zigzag This compound is not in any of the Japanese dictionaries I'v... |
meiko452 | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 4,275 | 2011-03-13, 10:05 am | ||
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Thread: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2 Post: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2 nadiatims Wrote:Kunyomi are a little more difficult, but I imagine (I didn't do this) quickly SRSing 1 or 2 common kunyomi words for each character would be beneficial and you'd be reinforcing rare ka... |
meiko452 | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 9,272 | 2011-03-09, 11:58 am | ||
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Thread: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2 Post: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2 mafried Wrote:You kind of have to skim the whole book, read thoroughly the introduction and notes at the end, then read a bit between the lines to understand how it is put together. Interestingly enou... |
meiko452 | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 9,272 | 2011-03-09, 11:53 am | ||
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Thread: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2 Post: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2 Tori-kun Wrote:Personally I can say, that RtK2 "Pure groups" are really doing a good job concerning the "on-yomi" problem. At the beginning I saw a thick red book from heisig on my table lieing again ... |
meiko452 | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 9,272 | 2011-03-08, 2:49 pm | ||
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Thread: English listening for Japanese-speakers Post: English listening for Japanese-speakers I'm a native English speaker, so I can't help you there. But give these techniques some thought. With Japanese, I use music. I take a song, get the kanji lyrics, and create furigana them. I li... |
meiko452 | Off topic | 11 | 2,362 | 2011-03-08, 2:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese TV on Internet Post: Japanese TV on Internet Here is another option: Viki http://www.viki.com/ Its not T.V. per se, but there are Japanese shows up there and this is key: with some content, it is possible to run both English and Japanese subti... |
meiko452 | Learning resources | 182 | 105,111 | 2011-03-08, 2:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Smart.fm closing down Post: Smart.fm closing down Ha! I went through and made massive amounts of screen caps of as many of the vocabulary and example sentences as I could. It made me feel just a little better. The only thing I will regret is not be... |
meiko452 | Learning resources | 143 | 43,684 | 2011-03-08, 1:57 pm | ||
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Thread: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2 Post: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2 gibosi Wrote:I decided to use RTK2 to kill two birds with one stone: build vocabulary and learn the onyomi. I took the RTK2 example words and threw them into SRS. And for each reading I would try to... |
meiko452 | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 9,272 | 2011-03-08, 1:52 pm | ||
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Thread: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2 Post: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2 Tzadeck Wrote:PATRICKRL Wrote:The main problem I have with Movie Method/KanjiTown is that I want to learn the Korean readings as well. And that has a much wider range of syllables! Guess I'll just hav... |
meiko452 | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 9,272 | 2011-03-08, 1:34 pm | ||
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Thread: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2 Post: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2 shaggadelyc Wrote:I'll be approaching this topic soon aswell and wanted to know something here... Kanji Town, Movie Method, Kanji Chains, ... where are the differences? pros and cons? Any recommendat... |
meiko452 | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 9,272 | 2011-03-08, 1:30 pm | ||
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Thread: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2 Post: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2 The ばか's Guide To RTK 2 I may seem like a ばか for having to even begin this thread. Though, perhaps there is some value in that old phrase, there is no such thing as a stupid question. Regardless, ... |
meiko452 | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 9,272 | 2011-03-06, 10:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Anki Decks & RTK 2 Post: Anki Decks & RTK 2 Katsuo Wrote:I downloaded the Anki file and made a new version of it in RTK2 number order. Click here to download the one I made. Thank you, you kind, kind person. You have helped me immensely. |
meiko452 | Remembering the Kanji | 5 | 6,075 | 2011-03-03, 10:28 am | ||
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Thread: Anki Decks & RTK 2 Post: Anki Decks & RTK 2 Katsuo Wrote:Which deck is that? The deck I mention is titled: "Remembering the Kanji 2 Vocabulary and Keywords". Quote:I'm not an Anki expert, but if a deck contains RTK2 numbers can't you reorder i... |
meiko452 | Remembering the Kanji | 5 | 6,075 | 2011-03-02, 7:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Anki Decks & RTK 2 Post: Anki Decks & RTK 2 Perhaps I am overlooking it. And that may entirely be possible, because I am itching to start RTK 2. I would like to find an Anki deck based on the content in RTK 2, and (this is what is most import... |
meiko452 | Remembering the Kanji | 5 | 6,075 | 2011-03-01, 7:18 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... やった！ |
meiko452 | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,540 | 2011-02-13, 4:44 pm | ||
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Thread: Translation Site: TATOEBA Post: Translation Site: TATOEBA I stumbled across this web site and I thought I should share. Its a collaborative community of sentence translations. Its kind of awesome. Anyone can post a sentence and anyone else can come in and ... |
meiko452 | The Japanese language | 1 | 680 | 2010-11-08, 10:24 pm | ||
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Thread: Essential Resources Post: Essential Resources Other than this site these are the indispensable online tools I use while learning Japanese? Japandict.com Provides simple succinct definitions, radicals and verb conjugations. Flashcardexchange.com... |
meiko452 | Learning resources | 100 | 133,550 | 2010-09-29, 6:01 pm | ||
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Thread: practice for 1/2 the time if you add listening Post: practice for 1/2 the time if you add listening It is an interesting article. But today I only learned my 750th frame. Its going to be a while before I'm listening to Japanese with any real comprehension beyond catching my sparse vocabulary and a... |
meiko452 | Learning resources | 5 | 2,529 | 2010-09-29, 3:41 pm | ||
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Thread: reasons some of you are learning japanese Post: reasons some of you are learning japanese I realize that learning Japanese is a massive undertaking. Personally, I'm considering it a hobby. Some people collect stamps, I plan to collect a language. When I can find the time, I like to write.... |
meiko452 | General discussion | 13 | 2,432 | 2010-09-29, 3:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Quick Grammar/Vocabulary Question Post: Quick Grammar/Vocabulary Question harhol Wrote:だれも = everyone ジャンプしていません = is not (doing) jumping Everyone is not jumping. Various sources may list "no one" as a meaning but that's only because of how we would say it in English ("e... |
meiko452 | The Japanese language | 18 | 6,586 | 2010-09-29, 3:00 pm | ||
