Showing posts with label jisho. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jisho. Show all posts
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Friday, 7 February 2014
13. Anki 1h15min
No, I didn't forgot about my Japanese learning... But I was quite lazy in this week, I can't conceal it >.< It was hard to come back to high school after winter break :s
Thirteen is such a beautiful number. I decided to install Anki today. I've downloaded a few decks already and I start to work on my vocabulary ^^
Thirteen is such a beautiful number. I decided to install Anki today. I've downloaded a few decks already and I start to work on my vocabulary ^^
Monday, 3 February 2014
9. translating 2h
Yeah, I fell ashmed of myself right now... But my winter holidays were ending and moreover I have broken the power socket in laptop... ughr... And now, after the first day of a school I am too tired to do anything, even though I have an esey to write and a business plan... -.- No Japanese today T.T
EDIT: There was a small change of plans, I didn't do any school. assignments. I just spent 1.5-2h on translating a few bubble texts on a fanarts instead. >.<
EDIT: There was a small change of plans, I didn't do any school. assignments. I just spent 1.5-2h on translating a few bubble texts on a fanarts instead. >.<
Saturday, 25 January 2014
0. Getting started. What I already know?
Emm... Nothing much. More precisely: hardly anything. It's:
>> Hiragana
>> Part of a katakana
>> I can understand a few words while watching anime
>> I know tens of kanji, but mostly can only name them (not always in Japanese) and can't remember how to read them. In worst cases I know I 'learnt/saw' it somewhere, but have no idea what it is.
Silly of me - trying to learn kanji while not knowing katakana, but... The characters are too easy O.o'' I mean I don't think enough while learning them, so I forget it reeeally fast. I just decided time for katakana will come when I will actually start reading something.
The easiest way to learn new words/characters... is by seeing them in context. So my new decision is: I will start translating raw Japanese manga. I will start from something easy... like short shoujo mangas.
I think learning Japanese will be a little easier to me this way, because 4.5 years ago I started learning English this method. Back then I think I knew next to nothing and didn't feel comfortable in foreign language. Now I 'Don't See Obstacles, [I] See Opportunities' to write/speak/communicate in English. The only differences are that: I am older and... shoujo mangas sucks big time for me now, while then I've read them with enyojement.
Knowing this for a moment I though about reading shounen manga... BUT... But they are mostly long and the words are more uncommon, unrealistic and unnecessary. Of course I won't start from josei or, my goal, yaoi, because they lack furigana and I would became discouraged because of the raid of unknown to me kanji really soon. It takes me a lot of time to find kanji by radicals (jisho.org), so...
I've found an article about tips what to read on the low Japanese language knowledge - it's obvious that the higher level you are the more sources you can find to read... So what to do when you know next to nothing? Here is an article which points the way: tofugu.com.
>> Hiragana
>> Part of a katakana
>> I can understand a few words while watching anime
>> I know tens of kanji, but mostly can only name them (not always in Japanese) and can't remember how to read them. In worst cases I know I 'learnt/saw' it somewhere, but have no idea what it is.
Silly of me - trying to learn kanji while not knowing katakana, but... The characters are too easy O.o'' I mean I don't think enough while learning them, so I forget it reeeally fast. I just decided time for katakana will come when I will actually start reading something.
The easiest way to learn new words/characters... is by seeing them in context. So my new decision is: I will start translating raw Japanese manga. I will start from something easy... like short shoujo mangas.
I think learning Japanese will be a little easier to me this way, because 4.5 years ago I started learning English this method. Back then I think I knew next to nothing and didn't feel comfortable in foreign language. Now I 'Don't See Obstacles, [I] See Opportunities' to write/speak/communicate in English. The only differences are that: I am older and... shoujo mangas sucks big time for me now, while then I've read them with enyojement.
Knowing this for a moment I though about reading shounen manga... BUT... But they are mostly long and the words are more uncommon, unrealistic and unnecessary. Of course I won't start from josei or, my goal, yaoi, because they lack furigana and I would became discouraged because of the raid of unknown to me kanji really soon. It takes me a lot of time to find kanji by radicals (jisho.org), so...
I've found an article about tips what to read on the low Japanese language knowledge - it's obvious that the higher level you are the more sources you can find to read... So what to do when you know next to nothing? Here is an article which points the way: tofugu.com.
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