Been using my production deck for two months(active recall of kanji via vocab and short sentences). Also there are the RTK keywords in there, I'm still maintaining them)
I've been noticing that, there are a lot of kanji readings associate with the same kanji/also different kanji(nothing new).

I'm also noticing I can write a lot of kanji via memory, even if it has the same readings. I'm able to read each kanji flawlessly now(know the readings associated with it/distinguish them, example りょう　りょ,etc).

I'm confident if I keep adding 20 per day, I'll eventually be able to write all the common kanji from memory and have a good recall rate going.

20x365=7300 cards by that time and if you combine it with my 3007 RTK keywords, it's 10307 cards by one year. I'm pretty confident by that time, writing kanji and thanks to my vocab deck(reading) will be even much easier/smoother.

One thing I've noticed is that, we have to do this for fun, if it's too much work, make it easier. Spice it up with fun vocab/random ones. It's all a matter of maintaining for the long-term rather then adding like mad daily.

I occasional look up stroke orders of kanji that are giving me problems in writing.

as usual ta your post is inspiring
good job Norm (what was that show?)

jettyke Wrote:

KMDES Wrote:http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid130010

Here's what I got so far. Consider this version 1.

Man it's such a long post.. It's too hard to read it. Wish there was an easier explanation to this than a text version

You know, I actually cut it shorter than I wanted it to be, right? ;D

Are you hinting at a video? I was thinking about doing one, but have never done one before.

KMDES Wrote:

jettyke Wrote:

KMDES Wrote:http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid130010

Here's what I got so far. Consider this version 1.

Man it's such a long post.. It's too hard to read it. Wish there was an easier explanation to this than a text version

You know, I actually cut it shorter than I wanted it to be, right? ;D

Are you hinting at a video? I was thinking about doing one, but have never done one before.

Well the only thing that slightly came to my mind was video, but I'm not hinging at anything though.
I just wanted to say that oh boy, a text this long is tiring. I don't know what could be done about this though, but the method seems something more interesting than average.

jettyke Wrote:

KMDES Wrote:

jettyke Wrote:Man it's such a long post.. It's too hard to read it. Wish there was an easier explanation to this than a text version

You know, I actually cut it shorter than I wanted it to be, right? ;D

Are you hinting at a video? I was thinking about doing one, but have never done one before.

Well the only thing that slightly came to my mind was video, but I'm not hinging at anything though.
I just wanted to say that oh boy, a text this long is tiring. I don't know what could be done about this though, but the method seems something more interesting than average.

It's only 6 pages (according to Libre Office) of text. That's nothing. ;D And only took me aout 4.5 hours to write.

You could also just view the summaries I laid out, that might be enouh info to get you by, but you won't get the full effect of the method.

Or as I like to say 'Anything worth doing is difficult.'

@KMDES

Okay, you convinced me I read it all.
Now I gotta go to sleep.

keys84 Wrote:as usual ta your post is inspiring
good job Norm (what was that show?)

Even I know need inspiration at times, but I'm started to realize how far I've actually gone. If I got this far, then there is no reason why I can't go all the way to my goal.

ニュージーランド競技かるた協会第一回初心者大会優勝した！

So today, I participated in the new zealand kyougi karuta association inaugural beginners tournament... and won!

I've recently started playing this game and it's a lot of fun

mezbup Wrote:ニュージーランド競技かるた協会第一回初心者大会優勝した！

So today, I participated in the new zealand kyougi karuta association inaugural beginners tournament... and won!

I've recently started playing this game and it's a lot of fun

さすが mezbup-殿

Update on my speaking skills. I was really worried about this because my reading/understanding of kanji/listening are much higher than my speaking skills. I'm more relaxed now. Why you ask? I've tried practicing a bit and it's been going good.

On my own, it's strange though. I've been listening to so much Japanese to the point that I can literally say almost 80% of what I'm listening to(from memory,exactly how it was said and naturally to, no forcing).

Although the journey is still long, it isn't impossible to obtain in a few years. Overall, we just gotta stop worrying. Who cares about not knowing how to say "this and that, and this grammar point and that". If you keep going, we'll eventually reach all the things we've set out to learn

I finally got myself to start climbing the mountain of reveiws that I need to do. I have ~1100 reveiws to do. Luckly they are all in 4+ category, which will make this a lot eassier.

wish me good luck .

wulfgar Wrote:I finally got myself to start climbing the mountain of reveiws that I need to do. I have ~1100 reveiws to do. Luckly they are all in 4+ category, which will make this a lot eassier.

wish me good luck .

shouldn't be that bad or maybe I'm saying this because I've gotten so used to doing reps. Anyhow, good luck. Once it's done a huge burden will be lifted

@ta12121

Get some random Japanese into your Skype contacts. They're waiting for you, really.

I guess this is kind of an odd milestone...

But I figured out how I plan to study and have prevented myself from changing it at allll. Okay, I modified it a little to make it more streamlined, but I like it. Yomichan + DOxJG + Anki = looooveeeee. I even set up one of my normal coping mechanisms (going through all the grammar study topics on this forum) and then X-ed it off and went back to my normal studying.

Pull all my vocab from Yomichan, read the sections in the DOxJG and put them in Anki and SRS them, and...yeah. Working on reading manga/light novels, too, particular copies I have both in txt and er...sitting on my table. Vocab/adjective conjugations are something I'll need to watch a little on how to do, but I figure I can reference JtMW or Tae Kim once I start working on producing. Input is my big thing - I want to read.

So. Yeah. Happy.

jettyke Wrote:@ta12121

Get some random Japanese into your Skype contacts. They're waiting for you, really.

I talk to my Japanese friends via facebook. There still pretty worried over there, because of the aftershocks to be expected

Just finished inputting all of the common jdict words that I didn't know into Anki after countless days of toil. @_@

I finished my 1100 kanji review. Kanji status at the moment:

1) 40% failed = ~820 kanji

2) 50% Uber mature kanji (7+ reviews) = 1028

3) 10% in boxes 5-6 reviews: = 204 ^^

Not bad after being on a 6-8 month break .

It's time to slowly chip away at my failed box.

Today I finished reading 書けない漢字が書ける本!!!!

So, I learned approximately 700 words from it (then again I sometimes go crazy adding related words so the real number from the book itself is probably closer to 400 ~ 500). I learned how to read between 100 ~ 150 new kanji!

I set a new personal recording of learning 120 words in a day today and also another personal record of finishing a book in 3 weeks (it's a tough read at that!).

Feeling good.

Edit: Last Saturday after talking to two Japanese girls for about an hour I asked them how long they thought I'd lived in Japan for (trick question, I've never even been). One of them answered 5 years, the other said 6 ~ 7! They both said I was better than a girl they work with who did actually live in Japan and worked at a Japanese company for 5 years!!

...and no one listens to me when I tell them Anki + Immersion = pure win.

mezbup Wrote:Today I finished reading 書けない漢字が書ける本!!!!

So, I learned approximately 700 words from it (then again I sometimes go crazy adding related words so the real number from the book itself is probably closer to 400 ~ 500). I learned how to read between 100 ~ 150 new kanji!

I set a new personal recording of learning 120 words in a day today and also another personal record of finishing a book in 3 weeks (it's a tough read at that!).

Feeling good.

Edit: Last Saturday after talking to two Japanese girls for about an hour I asked them how long they thought I'd lived in Japan for (trick question, I've never even been). One of them answered 5 years, the other said 6 ~ 7! They both said I was better than a girl they work with who did actually live in Japan and worked at a Japanese company for 5 years!!

...and no one listens to me when I tell them Anki + Immersion = pure win.

yes, that's what I like to hear. 5 years? Damn (pardon my french). I always knew that anki and immersion where the way to go.

When I think about it, without anki. There WOULD be no way I'd get this far, this fast. That's how effective it is

mezbup Wrote:Edit: Last Saturday after talking to two Japanese girls for about an hour I asked them how long they thought I'd lived in Japan for (trick question, I've never even been). One of them answered 5 years, the other said 6 ~ 7! They both said I was better than a girl they work with who did actually live in Japan and worked at a Japanese company for 5 years!!

...and no one listens to me when I tell them Anki + Immersion = pure win.

Hey Mezbup, seems liked you've reached a good place with your Japanese learning. An AJATT success story, which is always motivating to hear!

Do you think you could spare the time to write a mega-post about how you reached where you are now, with attention to what was useful and what wasn't so much, similar to what icecream has done on her blog. I'm sure alot of us could learn from your journey.

Cheers!

So I crashed my first Japanese-only party! It rocked!

Being pissed off by the fact that I was forced to leave Japan a couple of days ago, I contacted a Japanese-Norwegian friend of mine, asking if there were any Japanese get-togethers etc. going on.
She told me "Well, there's this thing today, but it's a familyparty and only Japanese people are going. I'm not going, but you could give it a shot?"...

So I did!

It was a very stiff, formal party (before the beer got served), but I must say... I think I nailed it.
I've never crashed parties before, and knowing I'd have to do it all in Japanese got me even more nervous. I started off presenting me as 森さん's friend (the girl who told me about the party), and then they were like "Well, ok? Why are you here?", and I improvised something along the lines of "Well, I live pretty close to here, and... um.. 森さん asked if I could tell you guys that she can't make it today. So yeah..."
Then, all of a sudden, an old woman passed by, carrying some 茶道-stuff in her hands, and I was like "CHANCE!!!! (I've been studying 茶道 for 7 months...) and went "うわ〜！素敵なお茶碗ですね〜！" and melted her heart! We went on talking about 茶道, 焼き物 and my painful experiences with 正座。
After a while I started talking with other people, beer got served (free Japanese beer! Win!), had a great time and when it got late people started asking again: "Who are you anyway?". Just before I answered (I was going to answer 森さん's friend, after all.. that's the truth), a random woman said "Oh, he's related to 森さん!" and everybody was like "OOh! So you're related to 森さん？ Wow! Cool!"
And I was like "WTF!?!? I'm tall, blond and 100% Vikingblood runs trough my veins, and they think I'm related to a Japanese girl???" but after think it over for about two seconds, I went: "Yes, I am!!! Now, who's up for some 餃子 besides me?"

aphasiac Wrote:

mezbup Wrote:Edit: Last Saturday after talking to two Japanese girls for about an hour I asked them how long they thought I'd lived in Japan for (trick question, I've never even been). One of them answered 5 years, the other said 6 ~ 7! They both said I was better than a girl they work with who did actually live in Japan and worked at a Japanese company for 5 years!!

...and no one listens to me when I tell them Anki + Immersion = pure win.

Hey Mezbup, seems liked you've reached a good place with your Japanese learning. An AJATT success story, which is always motivating to hear!

Do you think you could spare the time to write a mega-post about how you reached where you are now, with attention to what was useful and what wasn't so much, similar to what icecream has done on her blog. I'm sure alot of us could learn from your journey.

Cheers!

I double that request. Your motivating to learn more japanese now.
This right here tells me that, if you go to japan. It doesn't mean your will reach native-level/fluency. But it although depends on the person as well. It's all about putting in the time, nothing else. If you want to own the language, we all know what it takes. Time, dedication and lots of fun

I'm still only halfway on my journey! Though, I shall consider it!

r3dragon Wrote:then this morning I looked at my combustibles garbage bin with the weird kanji ( 可燃ごみ ) and realized that it just means "Can Burn Garbage"-- oh and my Non-combustible Garbage ( 不燃ごみ )?? Negative Burn Garbage...

I subsequently went to the closest wall and hit my head on it multiple times for the complete ridiculous simplicity of it all. Here I thought it was all some complex verbiage.

That's my milestone.

I love this post.

I had a similar experience when I looked at the fire extinguisher outside my apartment. 消火器 Extinguish Fire Utensil. It was like an epiphany.

FINALLY hit 2 achievements today.

One, I hit 100% retention on my reviews on my rtk deck. First time since finishing the book I've managed to do so.

Two, I passed 1800 mature RTK cards today.

Oh one more thing, I got pretty badly mangled 6 months ago getting hit by a car while riding my bicycle to get in shape, and this marks my first FULL week of walking unsupported by a walker, crutches, cane NOTHING. ( Pretty nasty femur break, 2 titanium rods from the knee all the way into the hip joint )

It's been a good week

*edit*

Just hit 8.1 seconds per review on my sentence deck today too :p