Sorry I'm creating so many new posts recently- oh well, I think they are all on fairly different topics!

I'm looking for a list of giongo / gitaigo that are included in the JLPT2, and just help in general on learning these words, as I find it really hard to remember them.

Does anyone have such a list / Anki deck / method?

stevesayskanpai Wrote:Sorry I'm creating so many new posts recently- oh well, I think they are all on fairly different topics!

I'm looking for a list of giongo / gitaigo that are included in the JLPT2, and just help in general on learning these words, as I find it really hard to remember them.

Does anyone have such a list / Anki deck / method?

There is already an anki deck of the gitaigo/giongo book by Gomi Taro.
Just search for it.

Thanks

[Katsuo]

I made a spreadsheet (easily converted to Anki).

As for which appear on JLPT2, I don't know if anyone has listed those. Glancing down an old vocabulary list I noticed the following repeated kana words (not necessarily all giongo/gitaigo, and of course g/g words appear in other forms too).

いちいち、いよいよ、いらいら、うろうろ、しばしば、そろそろ、たびたび、だんだん、とうとう、どきどき、どんどん、にこにこ、のろのろ、はきはき、ぴかぴか、ふわふわ、ますます。

And as for a method, Nukemarine posted a suggestion recently. Also notice that many of these words are related to others in the language and knowing one helps with learning the other. E.g. うろうろ and うろつく.

Regarding books, I found the one Chamcham mentioned useful. Another handy one is ALC's ぎおんご　ぎたいご by Akutsu Satoru (阿久津智), which as well as illustrations includes an overview of patterns found in these words.

Thanks Katsuo! I'd already found your spreadsheet actually after a bit of digging, but the one's you single out, and Nukemarine's method look really useful. I was making up stories based on the sound of the mnemonics, but I think this method of using the hiragana makes a lot more sense.

頑張ります！

stevesayskanpai Wrote:Thanks Katsuo! I'd already found your spreadsheet actually after a bit of digging, but the one's you single out, and Nukemarine's method look really useful. I was making up stories based on the sound of the mnemonics, but I think this method of using the hiragana makes a lot more sense.

頑張ります！

You didn't have them in your vocabulary JLPT2 deck? Drilling them through SRS works best in my case and since they sound "funny" I found them pretty easy to memorize.

I don't understand what you mean "didn't have them in your Anki vocab deck". I don't use a vocab deck, but add words from the UNICOM 2Kyu book as well as the SpeedAnki website, plus words I don't know from the Kanzen Master examples and the past papers that I do not understand.

Giongo and gitaigo fell outside of these sources a bit, but I've now added all of them to my deck.

stevesayskanpai Wrote:I don't understand what you mean "didn't have them in your Anki vocab deck"

Shock!!! I thought everyone preparing for the test had one, it makes it so easy to manage all that vocabulary. You can always add new things etc. (test list is just a suggestion not a strict requirement anyway) as you progress but its a solid base when you start.

chamcham Wrote:

stevesayskanpai Wrote:Sorry I'm creating so many new posts recently- oh well, I think they are all on fairly different topics!

I'm looking for a list of giongo / gitaigo that are included in the JLPT2, and just help in general on learning these words, as I find it really hard to remember them.

Does anyone have such a list / Anki deck / method?

There is already an anki deck of the gitaigo/giongo book by Gomi Taro.
Just search for it.

I searched for this deck in the shared decks and couldn't find it. Am I just daft or is it gone now?

tokyostyle Wrote:

thurd Wrote:Shock!!! I thought everyone preparing for the test had one, it makes it so easy to manage all that vocabulary.

Out of me and three other study partners I don't know anyone who has a vocab deck. Most of us ditched those about halfway through basic grammar since they become so unwieldy and inefficient. On the JLPT exam everything is tested in the context of sentences and there's no English answers to be found. So my shock is that anyone studying for N3 or higher still has a vocab deck!

What else are you supposed to do? I mean, how do you recommend I memorise the 500 words I didn't know in the 上 part of the novel I'm reading? They're in a list on my iPod waiting to be forgotten.

By the way, my advice (to this extremely old topic) on 擬態語 is to avoid learning too many at once, especially ones with similar meanings or sounds. There are some I learned together that I constantly confuse. That's probably true with a lot of words with similar characteristics though.

Found a nice resource with images that best describe each word, good if you want to make your deck a bit more dynamic and graphic.

http://www.ogurano.net/JpAR/showthread.php?t=1540