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Thread: Vocabulary building? Post: Vocabulary building? Different languages have different amounts of words too. I'm pretty sure English has significantly more words than Japanese. They come from all sorts of other languages and stuff, and we have like 30 ... |
Coreth | The Japanese language | 106 | 19,300 | 2011-05-17, 9:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Vocabulary building? Post: Vocabulary building? nadiatims Wrote:Coreth buddy, all that complicated stuff you're doing is largely unnecessary; it's no wonder it's taking you so long. Certainly go at your own pace but i'd advise against giving yourse... |
Coreth | The Japanese language | 106 | 19,300 | 2011-05-17, 8:08 am | ||
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Thread: Vocabulary building? Post: Vocabulary building? You guys are probably all right about the speed being too slow. I just don't think I would even be ABLE to go faster. I don't use premade decks, I make all my own cards. I have to lookup a word in my... |
Coreth | The Japanese language | 106 | 19,300 | 2011-05-17, 7:11 am | ||
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Thread: Vocabulary building? Post: Vocabulary building? overture2112 Wrote:I rush as fast as I can because I can't wait to see the next new card. I continuously find myself in the predicament of half wanting to sit there and squee over how awesome the sen... |
Coreth | The Japanese language | 106 | 19,300 | 2011-05-14, 12:06 am | ||
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Thread: Vocabulary building? Post: Vocabulary building? nadiatims Wrote:Do you really want it to take 5 or 6 years before you can start using (conversing and listening to and reading authentic content) what you're learning? Also 10800 is actually not all t... |
Coreth | The Japanese language | 106 | 19,300 | 2011-05-13, 11:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Vocabulary building? Post: Vocabulary building? This isn't really that big of a deal, I'll be done with like every word in 5 or 6 years (5x30x12x6=10800), and I'm already done with a sizable chunk. That's fine for me, really. I still have joy in le... |
Coreth | The Japanese language | 106 | 19,300 | 2011-05-13, 8:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Vocabulary building? Post: Vocabulary building? overture2112 Wrote:dizmox Wrote:Coreth Wrote:I have to stop and let it get down to under 200 and stuff. You're getting 200 reviews a day from adding 5 a day? That... shouldn't happen :S Yes, I'm curio... |
Coreth | The Japanese language | 106 | 19,300 | 2011-05-13, 7:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Vocabulary building? Post: Vocabulary building? mezbup Wrote:can't stress it enough... vocab is everything. learn 1000 a month (35 a day) and in 1 year your speaking hits a good level... 2 years of that and boom. That's Japanese. 3 years of it... ... |
Coreth | The Japanese language | 106 | 19,300 | 2011-05-13, 8:24 am | ||
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Thread: Vocabulary building? Post: Vocabulary building? wccrawford Wrote:Readings: I don't bother with them. I can read them for the words I've learned, but ask me the readings of individual kanji and I'll shrug. Eventually I'll probably study them becau... |
Coreth | The Japanese language | 106 | 19,300 | 2011-05-13, 7:26 am | ||
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Thread: Vocabulary building? Post: Vocabulary building? Just slightly off topic, am I the only one who doesn't memorize readings for Kanji? I always just learn the words by themselves, and then the readings for Kanji just sort of fall into place. This has ... |
Coreth | The Japanese language | 106 | 19,300 | 2011-05-13, 7:15 am | ||
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Thread: Vocabulary building? Post: Vocabulary building? So some people recommend brute forcing vocab before even attempting to read.. and others recommend trying to read first and not worrying about memorizing words until you come across them while reading... |
Coreth | The Japanese language | 106 | 19,300 | 2011-05-13, 6:58 am | ||
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Thread: Vocabulary building? Post: Vocabulary building? Thanks for responding! So SRS IS the way to go then? That's reassuring that I'm doing it right I guess. I've tried those premade decks before. I don't like 'em! Or rather, I don't like the concept of... |
Coreth | The Japanese language | 106 | 19,300 | 2011-05-13, 6:31 am | ||
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Thread: Vocabulary building? Post: Vocabulary building? What do you guys do for building your vocabulary specifically? I'm pretty decent with the grammar rules, I think now the only thing left is to just grind a ton of vocabulary words. Learning Kanji is g... |
Coreth | The Japanese language | 106 | 19,300 | 2011-05-13, 6:15 am | ||