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Metamorphosis

Sunday, June 05, 2005

The missing piece

I think I've found it. I started by attacking the beast from all fronts -the Basic Kanji Books from school, song lyrics, dramas, Pimsleur. But for Remembering the Kanji 1 graduates, I think RTK2 is the key to quick kanji literacy after all. This second attempt is going much smoother than the first mainly because

  1. I have solid foundation to work with from Reading Japanese, and
  2. I'm saving a lot of stress with an excellent flash card program that I found for my Mac called Kotoba. Now, instead of spending 5 to 10 minutes making a beautiful handmade card for each character, I can spend that time using the virtual card for what it was created for - drilling the bastard into my head a million times until it never leaves.

Since I started the cram, I've been able to learn around 60-70 readings a day. I'm not getting any context practice, but that's ok because If I can keep this up, I'll be able to read (but not necessarily comprehend) a newspaper in about 3 weeks. Which is just in the nick of time, because I just heard that our COEs are due in on June 23, which should mean an early July departure :)

[ posted by asynchro @ 9:12 am ]

1 Comments:

Dude you are hardcore. Congrats on all the Japanese learnage. It'll help you for sure. Remember as soon as you get there, get a cell phone. They may convince you that a landline is okay (but probably not, they told me not to waste money on it). This'll help your memorization of kanji, although unless you take notes by hand you might sometimes find writing by hand difficult.

Weirdness - I saw a certain Superina on your website. And Angela and I are friends here at MS.

Bizarro.
commented by Anonymous Anonymous, 3:53 pm  

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