I think kanji might be the death of me, I've heard and read so many learning methods like learn… - Feed Post by AH_Jonesy
I think kanji might be the death of me, I've heard and read so many learning methods like learn the radicals before the readings or learn the meanings before readings and write it over and over.
I don't know if I have awful memory or my method isn't right for me I know about 50 kanji but just the meanings. any advice on remembering the readings or apps or online programmes ?
I don't know if I have awful memory or my method isn't right for me I know about 50 kanji but just the meanings. any advice on remembering the readings or apps or online programmes ?
posted by AH_Jonesy
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I use the simple kanji quiz app, which is for android phones . Easy to use and somewhat accurate
thank you :)
One big maybe non-obvious bit of advice - make sure you can type Japanese on your computer properly, with Google Japanese Input or whatever comes with your operating system. Then try to use it, writting notes with it and stuff.
This is helpful for learning readings, because you have to type out the reading in romaji, which automatically converts itself to hiragana, then you have to press a key to convert the hiragana to into the correct kanji from the pop-up list. If you don't type the readings of the kanji correct, the kanji you want won't show up in the pop-up conversion list. I think this is more helpful than people realise.
I recommend getting Google Japanese Input if you haven't tried it. It is effortless to install and uninstall. Here's the direct page to download it from. :)
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/japaneseinput/eula.html
JCJP Practice, more so than lessons, is very helpful for getting stuff into your long-term memory. It is supposed to test you on the stuff you need to learn, and wait a long enough number days before repeating questions to challenge your long-term memory (like the 30+ day old oblivion questions).
For me, but maybe not for everybody, the offline Japanese learning game Slime Forest Adventure has been an amazingly big help. Mainly for recognising all the kanji in the Jouyou list and their rough overall meanings, but it also has readings and grammar training too! I'm currently doing the Kun reading battles (1350-ish words) and only have about 100 left, then next I'm planning on doing On readings and lots of compounds. ^^
I really like switching between SFA and JCJP Practice, and think they work pretty well together. If you wanna check SFA out, here's the link to the site:
http://lrnj.com- very useful thank you very much :)
