頑張ってください
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 8 December 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
Ha, thanks. It tells me that too
― What Do I Blecch? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 December 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link
It’s all so simple.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/AMB_Japanese_Verbs.pdf/page1-1754px-AMB_Japanese_Verbs.pdf.jpg
I have a laminated copy of this in my work bag
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 14 December 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
Heh, that looks pretty good.So have been using three dictionaries apps extensively recently: imiwa?, Japanese and Midori. Perhaps I will organize my thoughts at some point and post about how they measure up to each other.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 December 2018 12:11 (five years ago) link
Just printed that out. Very interesting but some of it is hard to read, such as the green humble and honorific box on the back.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 December 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
井の中の蛙大海を知らず
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 December 2018 12:53 (five years ago) link
猿も木から落ちる
ナイス!
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 December 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
The Duolingo Japanese course from English is so-so, but the Progress Quiz is actually quite challenging.
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
Okay, the Manabi app for learning to read Kanji now allows you to click and search in your dictionary apps
― Spirit of the Voice of the Beehive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
彼は私に泳ぐよう強要した。Can’t figure out quite how the よう works here.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 April 2019 19:47 (five years ago) link
I’m not sure the よう is necessary, where did the sentence come from?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
Duolingo Reverse Tree
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:12 (five years ago) link
English for Japanese speakers
それは私にはありえません。Translated as:It is not possible for me.Can’t quite parse this one either, same source.
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
On the first one it could be a really bad mis writing I of the volitional 泳ごう。 making it ‘He made me want to go swimming’ which seems a bit weird, but ok could work.
That last one you posted I just don’t know. I do get the sense that some of the less popular corners of Duolingo don’t get proofed very well. There’s a quite a few errors in the later levels of LingoDeer as well.
My reading is coming along by leaps and bounds I can recognise 750 kanji and I’m starting to do pretty well with teenage novels and manga.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 8 April 2019 02:26 (five years ago) link
Duolingo just significantly upgraded their Japanese course, wondering if this addresses any of our concerns, tend to doubt it.
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 June 2019 23:53 (five years ago) link
There do seem to be a lot more kanji in the lessons, I’ll give them that
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 June 2019 20:44 (five years ago) link
I took a peak and it didn’t look any different. Not going to waste my time on it.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 9 June 2019 22:12 (five years ago) link
Yes, I figured you were too far along for it to be of use to you.
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 June 2019 22:33 (five years ago) link
Also, they have been doing A/B testing so maybe you still have the old tree.
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 June 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
The new Norwegian tree has been in A/B testing for a a few weeks but I still see only the old tree.
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 June 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/9688/volitional-%E3%81%A8-verb
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
なければならない, なければなりません, なければいけない, なければいけません, ねばならぬ, ねばならない, ねばなりません, なければならぬ, なけばならない expressionhave to do, must, should, ought to
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 15 June 2019 11:50 (five years ago) link
See also ないわけにはいかない
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Saturday, 15 June 2019 12:05 (five years ago) link
火のないところに煙は立たず。There is no smoke without fire.Il n’y a pas de fumée sans feu.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 July 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
色々言語を勉強する代わりに日本語を勉強に集中するべきです。
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 1 July 2019 04:52 (four years ago) link
I finally learned/looked up how to type づ
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 11:11 (four years ago) link
It’s just “du”
― Ask Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 July 2019 11:13 (four years ago) link
Also the little ヶ which is used for some counters and is pronounced “ka” every time I’ve seen it, such as in ヶ月, is typed “ke” like it’s big brother ケ.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 July 2019 10:10 (four years ago) link
Aargh “its”
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 July 2019 10:11 (four years ago) link
Just type いっかげつ and 1ヶ月 will come up as one of the options.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Sunday, 28 July 2019 10:35 (four years ago) link
Thanks, but I was going the other way, where I had the kanji but didn’t know how to pronounce it.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 July 2019 11:27 (four years ago) link
https://japanese.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1624/how-to-type-these-%E3%83%B6-%E3%80%85
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 August 2019 07:26 (four years ago) link
So “lke” goes right to the little ヶ.
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 August 2019 07:30 (four years ago) link
You can also type ‘x’ before things to get the small letter, or at least you can in Apple world so xke gets you ヶ
ぇぃぅぉ ょヶ
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 1 August 2019 08:38 (four years ago) link
頑張るしかない
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 August 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
一千三百漢字が覚えったので日本語の雑誌が読めます。
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 1 August 2019 23:07 (four years ago) link
本当に?
― U or Astro-U? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 August 2019 02:27 (four years ago) link
May finally try this wanikani thing
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 April 2021 23:48 (three years ago) link
It’s good, I got all the way to level 60 and I’m on the run out. It’s helped my reading a lot.
Highly recommend the unofficial iOS app, Tsurukame, which is a much better interface than their web one.
Also didn’t get sucked into doing it as fast as possible. Stuff really starts to pile up once reviews start coming back at you. I had to take two substantial breaks to get through it all and I think it would have been more effective if I’d just set out at a more gentle pace. It’s a marathon not a sprint.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 00:18 (three years ago) link
Yeah, looks good, someone else recommended it as well. Seems to be well-organized. And yeah, I just binged on the first 20 radicals it gave me, I guess I'd better be careful going forward, as you say.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
In theory you can get it all done in a year, but you better have a lot of spare time every 4 hours if you want to do that, and be pretty sure you will get everything right.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 23:35 (three years ago) link
How do I keep from getting sucked in or it snowballing, as someone else said, just don’t do too many new lessons when they pop up?
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 April 2021 12:48 (three years ago) link
maybe limit yourself to 10 new lessons a day? no matter what you do you'll have days where suddenly 150 reviews land in your queue.
i did the first 8-9 levels quickly and then hit a wall and have made very slow progress since though that's more on me than the program
― ciderpress, Friday, 30 April 2021 14:06 (three years ago) link
Thanks!TsurukameGot this. Seems like I had previously had a predecessor app called WAniki which seems to be gone now.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 April 2021 14:38 (three years ago) link
So it hasn’t gotten bad for me yet- still only on Level 1, with no vocabulary unlocked yet- but can well imagine the tsunami of combinatorial explosions that is coming soon.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 April 2021 15:02 (three years ago) link
if you already know some vocab then the first several levels are gonna be pretty trivial and having to learn names for the radicals is kinda obnoxious
― ciderpress, Friday, 30 April 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
I pretty much know all the vocabulary that is coming up but I don’t always know the pronunciations they want for the kanji and/or I mistype them so I guess that’s useful practice. I am trying to cross check their names for the radicals with other lists. Well one at least.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 April 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
Like what they call the drop is usually the dot, and construction is usually craft.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 April 2021 15:18 (three years ago) link