I even try to start vocabulary when I saw a gap coming up in 4 hours, of few or no reviews.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 June 2021 02:18 (two years ago) link
When I see
I’d do the vocab first, it helps lock in the kanji, something that becomes more important the less familiar the kanji is. it does slow you down though.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Friday, 4 June 2021 02:30 (two years ago) link
I mostly agree with what you are saying but the thing is, it only gives you the vocabulary for a given kanji after you've already passed that kanji, so it will help me lock in the kanji I already studied a bit, but not the new kanji.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 June 2021 03:01 (two years ago) link
I look at the first kanji unlocking as almost a pretest, as my grade school teachers used to say, and everything after as a retest.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 June 2021 03:12 (two years ago) link
Actually I try to look ahead and study the vocabulary related to the kanji before that vocabulary is unlocked in order to get a handle on the readings.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 June 2021 10:51 (two years ago) link
This got me again:https://community.wanikani.com/t/how-to-type-%E3%81%A5/33891So these twoづぢAre dudi
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 June 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
Just unlocked Level 7 this morning.Now nibbling at the vocab so it doesn’t get lost in a review tsunami.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 June 2021 13:23 (two years ago) link
Ha, missed almost all the kanji -and one radical! - on the first 4 hour review. Clearly I am burnt, and not in the good sense.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 June 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
Okay, back on track with those, mostly, and now really digging in to the vocabulary.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 June 2021 14:05 (two years ago) link
Think that’s killing me now is unfamiliar kanji with three different readings hitting me in the vocabulary.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 June 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link
At my Duolingo is actually helping, with some of the same vocabulary coming up.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 June 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link
At my level meant to say
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 June 2021 03:33 (two years ago) link
And just now learned an interesting expression from Duo, 上の空, which means absent-minded.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 June 2021 03:36 (two years ago) link
a bit like head in the clouds, above the sky?I did wanikani for a bit a few years ago and have started again, up to level 4 and am surprised how much I can rememberI just like the way kanji look and the words that happen when you put two or more together, fire + mountain = volcano etc
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 7 June 2021 12:13 (two years ago) link
Yes, like that.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 June 2021 12:33 (two years ago) link
Really don't know how Ed kept up that pace for a year.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 June 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link
It kind of took over. I had to build it into my day. I wouldn’t recommend it, not least because towards the end of that period all other Japanese study went by the board.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Monday, 7 June 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
I can tell. I am feeling that now at Level 7. I keep promising myself that I am only keeping to the seven day cycle for now to learn how that works but trying to figure out if I should shoot for a ten day cycle or a two week cycle.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 June 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
Just took advantage of a tip that I could add fonts
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
And want to remark on the tiny helpful fact that Tsurukame lets you know if you should be typing in an on or kun reading for the kanji.
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
Drives me crazy when things are very similar in pronunciation like 私立 and 自立
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 June 2021 02:22 (two years ago) link
Although I guess that’s the whole point
― AP Chemirocha (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 June 2021 02:23 (two years ago) link
Almost done with level nine. Wonder if I should pause at ten before going on to eleven to review those first ten Pleasant levels.
― Rich Valley Girl, Poor Valley Girl (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 25 June 2021 23:49 (two years ago) link
Visually Similar Kanji is usually pretty far off though
― Rich Valley Girl, Poor Valley Girl (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 June 2021 00:05 (two years ago) link
Did anyone buy the 4,500 sentences?
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 July 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
The what now?
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Saturday, 3 July 2021 02:10 (two years ago) link
https://store.tofugu.com/shop/4500-japanese-sentences
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 July 2021 02:23 (two years ago) link
hate when i finish a level on wanikani and suddenly there's like 100+ new lessons, all that purple to grind through before you get to the blues and pinks is kinda dispiriting
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 3 July 2021 10:03 (two years ago) link
Are you still doing? I thought maybe you took a break.You don’t have to do the purple right away. You can start with the blue and pink and do the purple at your leisure. That’s what I do, that’s what somebody else told me they do, I think.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 July 2021 11:44 (two years ago) link
nah still working away at it and got to level 6 yesterdayi'm doing it thru the website and can't see a way to pick and choose which lessons to do? teach me your ways
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 3 July 2021 12:36 (two years ago) link
Use the tsurukame app, highly configurable
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 July 2021 13:34 (two years ago) link
Maybe the recommended usage is to finish all the vocabulary first before proceeding but I dunno seems like I am going to spend forever on the vocabulary anyway so…
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 July 2021 14:38 (two years ago) link
Anyway, I kept up the ever more brutal pace of leveling up every seven days until this week, when it finally gave way, which is fine I guess. I really don’t know how Ed kept up the pace for so long, although maybe I do know and I also know why he had to eventually take a very long break or two.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 July 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
yeh I'm not capable of doing that. going at my own pacethat app seems to ios only, boooo
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 3 July 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
Flaming Durtles?
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 July 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
Kakumei?
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 July 2021 17:55 (two years ago) link
Now looking for some easy readers so I can use this stuff.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 July 2021 21:52 (two years ago) link
Try Satori Reader, there’s quite a lot of stuff you can read without paying for. It also integrates with Wanikani so it will only show Furigana for stuff you don’t know.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Saturday, 3 July 2021 22:05 (two years ago) link
Thanks! Will check that out. Already started looking at ManabiReader again, along with White Rabbit Press.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 July 2021 00:32 (two years ago) link
Okay, the White Rabbit Level 2 stories are at the right level.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 July 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
How do you find stuff to read in Satori? I didn’t dig that part of the interface
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 20:48 (two years ago) link
The dictionary app simply called Japanese has a color tagging feature that I am finding really useful at the moment.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
Okay, so just leveled up to twelve. I will know a lot if this thing doesn't pull me under.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 July 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
It takes me at least a couple of days to internal the weird readings and nuances of meaning of the vocab which us why at this point I always start the radicals and kanji first in the vain pursuit of the next level up.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 July 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
Always feels kind relaxing being in the eye of the hurricane when that two day pause comes before the radicals and (most or some of the) first batch of kanji go to Guru.
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 July 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
Eye of the typhoon, I should say
― Planck Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 July 2021 22:01 (two years ago) link
Is there some rule of thumb about a/e vowel sounds and transitive/intransitive or am I just imagining
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:27 (two years ago) link
I seem to see a lot of pairs where the e vowel is transitive, to act upon, and the a vowel is intransitive, to be acted upon.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:31 (two years ago) link
Unless I’ve got that backwards. Anyway, just found my copy of this bookhttps://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9784872179408-us.jpgflipping through which demonstrates that the Kanji reading is much improved.
― Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 23 July 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link