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    Thread: New to Japanese - immersion!
Post: New to Japanese - immersion!

Okay! Firstly thank you all for your help! I did my first 20 Anki reviews today with only 八 and 九 wrong :) I was just wondering, is there a way to set the cards to be shown randomly but added in order...
Shirayuri Learning resources 21 3,449 2011-12-28, 6:25 pm
    Thread: New to Japanese - immersion!
Post: New to Japanese - immersion!

Betelgeuzah Wrote:Yes, just get the most popular deck. I do tend to write the characters quite a few times while thinking up the mnemonic, but really it just helps me focus more than anything. Also, w...
Shirayuri Learning resources 21 3,449 2011-12-27, 7:00 am
    Thread: New to Japanese - immersion!
Post: New to Japanese - immersion!

Betelgeuzah Wrote:Some people write the stories so that they will remember them later. Personally I didn't give a damn and decided to just be as efficient as I could. In reality all the stories are ...
Shirayuri Learning resources 21 3,449 2011-12-24, 8:14 am
    Thread: New to Japanese - immersion!
Post: New to Japanese - immersion!

TwoMoreCharacters Wrote:Yes it will. It'll likely be a bit discouraging to know only the basic meanings of a lot of kanji without knowing how to pronounce them or how they work in compounds, a lot of ...
Shirayuri Learning resources 21 3,449 2011-12-24, 5:53 am
    Thread: New to Japanese - immersion!
Post: New to Japanese - immersion!

Betelgeuzah Wrote:As far as my opinion goes, you only need volume one. After that you can recognize and write 95% of the kanji you come across, and you have the tools to memorize more kanji that you m...
Shirayuri Learning resources 21 3,449 2011-12-23, 12:37 pm
    Thread: New to Japanese - immersion!
Post: New to Japanese - immersion!

Ah thank you very much TwoMoreCharacters! The only really concern I have with RTK is that, I tend to message my friends a lot on Skype in Japanese (I know enough to get by, but not enough to talk abo...
Shirayuri Learning resources 21 3,449 2011-12-23, 12:07 pm
    Thread: New to Japanese - immersion!
Post: New to Japanese - immersion!

Betelgeuzah Wrote:You'll pretty much have to relearn the vocab with kanji anyway, so I'd just focus on grammar and to finish RTK asap. I know it hinders the progress but I wouldn't rush these things....
Shirayuri Learning resources 21 3,449 2011-12-23, 11:25 am
    Thread: New to Japanese - immersion!
Post: New to Japanese - immersion!

こんにちは みなさん! 私は シラユリ だ! I'm not sure if I should make an introduction post here first; but il sort of skip that formality and just explain my situation? So I'm pretty new to Japanese- my grammar is p...
Shirayuri Learning resources 21 3,449 2011-12-23, 9:20 am