Comments on: Your “Minimum Effective Dose” Of Learning Japanese

By: Richard Robertson

Richard Robertson — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 23:04:00 +0000

I agree! I find writing (on my smartphone app) a big helper in remembering the kanji, as apposed to flash cards. Somehow after a good 5 minute run through writing a group of kanji I remember them!

By: Richard Robertson

Richard Robertson — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 22:54:00 +0000

One thing about this article is ‘The Grammar of Any Language’ picture. How does that help you in Japanese? Those are all English grammar rules… Or am I wrong and those are really how Japanese people talk?

By: kitsuki

kitsuki — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 03:55:00 +0000

ya i would do that, and then still forget it for the quiz the next day.
ive been trying to just review as many times during the day for short periods of time, that way its not really tiring and it seems to stick better. try using an app if you have a smart phone.

By: 名無し

名無し — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 13:15:00 +0000

うん、うん、そうですね。
Your problem is also my problem, is also likely the same underlying crippling issue as thousands of others.

The longer you drift from the mainland the wider the ocean between. Until the point becomes wherein moving forward means sink or swim and not everyone has the courage to take such action. Though how to do reach out to people if you do not know what it is like to drift apart? To become invisible?

Language may just be that bridge, if you allow yourself to build upon it.

By: Niki

Niki — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 13:18:00 +0000

Technically, being fluent in a language means being able to 1. speak it 2. understand it 3. write it (writing does NOT include typing). If you don’t learn how to write kanji, you’ll never be fluent in Japanese. It puts you at a huge disadvantage. You won’t be able to leave people notes, write letters, keep a journal, or claim to be really “fluent” if you can’t write it.

There are short cuts and then there’s just being lazy. Not learning to write kanji is lazy.

By: Hinoema

Hinoema — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 04:35:00 +0000

For you, yes. Then for you, the mnemonic method is a good method. This is just an alternative for those of us it doesn’t work so well for. I, for instance, remember the words to just about every song I’ve ever heard more than a few times, oddly enough. I tend to pick up accents if I listen to a certain speaker enough. And for whatever reason, It’s far easier for me to learn a word, which has an actual association, and learn the word bits (kanji) as i go along than to try to learn kanji and make words out of them. For me, things like ‘remembering the kanji’ just bounce right off. Some of us learn like that. Words first or kanji first- it depends on the learner. It’s all good- for someone.