Hi, I'm just working on my Core2k and I'm overwhelmed by the sentence examples used in Step 01 anki deck. First they teach you the word, and then use it in an example in a sentwnce. Should I be using these sentences as vocab as well, or should I just concentrate on the bolded vocab word used in it and not overwhelm myself (I am a newbie after all.)

The sentence is to help give you context but I'd focus on the vocab word.

As far as a good order for Core2K, there are some pre-sorted decks floating around, or you could grab the morphology plugin and have that sort the sentences for you.

Personally, I would grab some of your favorite anime and make some Subs2SRS decks and do that simultaneously along side Core2K. Anime can provide much more enjoyable context but Core2K provides a good basis for learning. I found Core2K rather boring in isolation.

I'll do that with a game I'm playing. Thanks hun.

Doing core in sentences gave me better results.

ryuudou Wrote:Doing core in sentences gave me better results.

Do you mind explaining? Do you mean the sentences I am talking about in the original post or what?

I suggest the vocab word only. The sentence provides context, and you'll encounter -same- vocab words later on but will have different use. I also made a similar thread when I started core 3? weeks ago, (http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=11294), I found it effective on doing RawToast's method but tweaked it a bit to my preference.

If you are not doing grammar already, I suggest Genki, Japanese The Manga Way, and A dictionary to basic japanese grammar as reference.

I'm going to get Assimil, Japanese the Manga Way, and hopefully Genki for Christmas. I don't want to start Genki until I finish RTK.

Thank you soooo much for the Japanese the Manga Way, however. I've never heard of it and small peek on Amazon shows that it should be REALLY helpful.

BlackIce Wrote:I suggest the vocab word only. The sentence provides context, and you'll encounter -same- vocab words later on but will have different use.

Sorry if I'm not understanding you correctly. IMO having sentence to go with the vocab word is not going to be a hindrance. Yes, usually words have more than one meaning and thus the single sentence only provides one of them. But that's still better than not having any context at all. You'll only learn one usage for the word in question, but that's not a bad thing as long as you keep in mind that it most often is not the only one. The rest of the meanings you will surely learn "in the wild" when the time comes.

The only exception I would think of are the onomatopoeia (if that's what they're called). pikapika, tokidoki etc. Personally I think that the sentence helps too much in these cases and you end up learning the word only with the context provided by the example sentence. It will be difficult to recall the meaning of the word in isolation as there will be no kanji to give you any hints.

Betelgeuzah Wrote:

BlackIce Wrote:I suggest the vocab word only. The sentence provides context, and you'll encounter -same- vocab words later on but will have different use.

IMO having sentence to go with the vocab word is not going to be a hindrance. You'll only learn one usage for the word in question, but that's not a bad thing as long as you keep in mind that it most often is not the only one.

Yes that's what I meant (sorry for being vague lol); it's not a hindrance at all but the total opposite. I'm doing vocab with the sentence but I focus mainly on the vocab word with the whole sentence providing as support if the character has many uses, ignoring unknown kanji/vocab that appears on the sentence (except for characters used on grammar)