I've seen there are alot of Death Note fans here, so I posted this here.

While I'm learning RTK, I'm taking the time to plan ahead to what I will be doing next, which is building vocabulary. My big goal is to read novels in Japanese so I'm not focusing on speaking or listening, just readings and vocabulary. So I picked Death Note as the first manga to read through. I have all 12 volumes and most likely only going to sentence mine the first volume, depending on where I am when I'm done studying RTK.

I plan to take the words I don't know, out of the sentences, learn them and their readings, then put them into Anki. I only mine around an hour a day so this will take awhile xD

Link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing

You'll see I stopped writing the readings for the kanji because I started using KanjiTomo. The furigana wasnt always clear.

Cool. Death Note is a fairly difficult manga, I think, but if you take your time and you already know you like it, by the third volume I think you'll know enough general DN vocab that it'll be (almost) smooth sailing. Enjoy! And thanks for the word lists.

お疲れ様ー！

Thanks for sharing this! I might use it, I'm a DN fan and have the manga lying around somewhere untouched... I agree Death Note might be a more challenging first manga and I don't want you to be discouraged by it. よつばと and 友人長 are far easier ones to start with (or there's dozens of other easy ones, if you don't like those). By the way, when you're ready to start novels, JALUP's recommendations might be good for. You can watch Ghibli's Kiki with Japanese subs a couple times to learn most of the vocab, and then read the book, even. ANYWAY, a word of warning that you're setting yourself up for a challenge with Death Note, but if it's what you're passionate about then you should definitely do it! Have fun!

I stopped sentence mining in favor of core2k when I decided I wanted a better foundation before I jumped into native materiel and haven't really returned to it since. It just seems overwhelming to me I guess, because there's so much materiel to use. I like the idea of mining the first volume or two of a series and then letting go though...that seems like a really nice balance. It'd be great prep for the series but you don't constantly have to pause and do homework while you're trying to enjoy your native materiel.

I'm curious, how are you going to format your anki cards? Something like this?

FRONT
Japanese sentence

BACK
Japanese sentence with reading
English definition of new words

jessem Wrote:お疲れ様ー！

I'm curious, how are you going to format your anki cards? Something like this?

FRONT
Japanese sentence

BACK
Japanese sentence with reading
English definition of new words

The sentences for me are just there so I can get vocabulary from them. I plan to take a sentence, take all the vocab and particles out, study those, put them in anki and when I'm done with say, a whole chapter of sentences, go back to the sentence deck and test myself on how I read them.

Sentence Deck:
FRONT
Japanese sentence

BACK
Reading of sentence

Vocab Deck:
FRONT
Word (Kanji form)

BACK
Reading
Definition

The reason I don't want to read よつばと or something like 友人長 is because I'm not interested in the story. I think I would be just forcing my way through each page, bored out of my mind @_@. Would rather read something I like.

tashippy Wrote:Cool. Death Note is a fairly difficult manga, I think, but if you take your time and you already know you like it, by the third volume I think you'll know enough general DN vocab that it'll be (almost) smooth sailing. Enjoy! And thanks for the word lists.

Thank you and your welcome!

Rotasu Wrote:While I'm learning RTK, I'm taking the time to plan ahead to what I will be doing next, which is building vocabulary.

You're doing this while you're doing RTK? I'd really like to do that but I don't know how to deal with kanji I don't recognize. Have you familiarized yourself with all the primitives/radicals and can do lookups that way, or use OCR, or ...?

In brief, how does sentence mining work when you're in the middle of RTK?

aldebrn Wrote:In brief, how does sentence mining work when you're in the middle of RTK?

Hmm, maybe 'sentence mining' was the wrong wording. I;m not studying the sentences at all right now. Just putting them in a google doc for later studying. I find the kanjis I don't know by the furigana or by KanjiTomo. KanajiTomo is not 100% so if it doesn't look right, I look through the JP subtitles of Death Note. They are mostly the same, with some parts out of order from the original manga.