I've read your "about me" and we have pretty much the same background and goals ;) I'm… - Feed Post from Annick to mog86uk
I've read your "about me" and we have pretty much the same background and goals ;)
I'm also thinking to go back to my previous method of learning which was trying to decipher Japanese texts, I've noticed that I had a better memory of kanji learned that way than with flash cards (for instance).
I'm also thinking to go back to my previous method of learning which was trying to decipher Japanese texts, I've noticed that I had a better memory of kanji learned that way than with flash cards (for instance).
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Cool. My background is kinda strange so I wouldn't think many people would say that. :D
What kinds of Japanese texts do you try to decipher? If you are after stories for kids, here's is a site I highly recommend:
http://hukumusume.com/douwa/betu/
I can't recommend Slime Forest Adventure enough though. It is a little awkward to get used to and requires a lot of typing, but it is helping me immensely with remembering kanji. Once I complete it, I should be able to remember the meaning and main readings for each of 2000 kanji. Seems to be working very well so far. ^^
It is really interesting going back and forth between doing SFA and JCJP.
For SFA, it is amazing how many meanings and ON and KUN readings I know or manage to guess correctly, thanks mainly to JCJP.
For JCJP, when I do Practice after learning lots of new stuff in SFA, I notice so many things and details which I had completely overlooked before, making it so much easier to choose the correct answers.
I played to the free version of Slime and Forest a while back, it was fun but I lost both my computers since and can't install it on the computer I'm borrowing.
It can be any texts, kids's stories and manga are probably the best to start though. I also learned kana that way, I had a Japanese text with romanji transcription and noticed some sounds seemed to match some characters, I wrote them down and later completed with an online game. I learned them and the kanji of the first grade rapidly, but then slacked off..and started to learn Korean...which I've forgotten since OTL...JCJP is great because it "forces" me to practice everyday but I'm sometimes getting too comfortable with it and guess more than read the questions-answers. It's another story when I go back to Tanoshii Japanese and have to write the answers ><. I focused more on learning kanji and neglected grammar this past year, it would be nice if I could learned 2600 kanji with all their readings once for all and then learn grammar but it seems to be more difficult than I thought. I like studying elements and know the story behind the kanji, it also help to memorize them and not to mix 待って and 持って XD.
Thanks for the link, looks very fun, むかしむかし... it reminds me of an anime I'm watching sometimes about Japanese folktales.- Heh, the audio reading on the site is pretty helpful too. I'm not sure whether the books are designed to be read by kids or to be read to kids. The stories aren't always that easy to read.
For manga, here's a site I came across a couple of weeks ago. The "expressions by scene" are very brief stories, but it would be very cool to find a site which used this format for whole manga series.
It would be nice to find an online library of Japanese books, with the books ordered by reading difficulty level. My school library as a child had the books ordered like this, with a coloured label stuck on the spine of each book to represent its difficulty. You begin on the easiest colour labelled books and work your way up as your reading ability improves. An online resource similar to this for learning to read Japanese would be so awesome. ^^ - Thanks I already knew the website, it's funny. I'm glad for the link because I had lost it with my computers:p
The audio of the previous website is a really nice thing because I don't remember all kanji reading, I started with one I knew already with Shiro the dog (forgot the title)
I would like to be able to read Japanese literature but when I see that even Japanese people are struggling with those books, I'm losing faith. - This is the anime I started watching
http://myanimelist.net/anime/13163/Furusato_Saisei:_Nihon_no_Mukashi_Banashi - I actually watched the first episode of that anime while JCJP was down tonight, before I had even seen the link you posted! I recognised which anime you probably meant by "Japanese folktales" earlier. I'd noticed the anime before but never gotten around to trying it out. I liked the Shiro the dog story, which I watched too in that first episode, so I think I'll also try to find the text version to read. ^^
- Another funny anime with lot of Japanese tales references.
http://myanimelist.net/anime/20431/Hoozuki_no_Reitetsu
Unfortunately, I don't know anybody watching this one, seems like I'm the only one finding it hilarious. - I haven't heard of that anime before (although the character artwork looks like something I recognise). It looks like a short series so I might check it out some time, thanks. :)