Is anyone else excited about the new iPhone comming out on the 11th of July? It’s so close yet so far away. Well, now you can learn more about the iPhone and practise your Japanese at the same time. The iPhone’s guided tour is now in Japanese. It’s basically the same as the [...]
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
A little while ago I made a post called All You Need To Learn Japanese Is Time, a response to a post on a Language Learning forum. The argument at the forum was that all methods are equal, the only factor in language learning is time. I argued that both time and method are [...]
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
I define burning out as not being able to find the motivation to do something, feel as though I've done it too much. But if I give up then my Japanese learning journey is over. Learning a language is not fun and easy all the time. If it was we all know multiple languages by now. Unfortunately we sometimes need to push ourselves to just get that bit further. Here are some ideas on how to overcome burn out.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Lately I want to learn a lot of vocab in a short space in time, using a “divide and conquer” type of method like Heisig uses. In Heisig’s remembering the kanji, one does not learn how to use the kanji, just how to recognise and write them. Same with learning vocab in isolation. You don’t [...]
Sunday, May 11, 2008
On All Japanese All The Time, Khatzumoto has posted about how much he knew after 18 months of learning Japanese. I am comming up right now to the 18 month period, and while I don’t know nearly as much as Khatzumoto knew, I am very pleased with my progress. I know more than [...]
Thursday, May 8, 2008
It’s カタカナ time! Lesson 5 - ナ to ノ。 ナ - NA A nut cracker. For me, it was always easy to remember that hiragana “na” means nun. And here is her cross! 二 - NI These are two needles. Of course, for those who know your numbers, “ni” also means two, and there are two strokes here. Infact, this is the [...]
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
In a recent post on the Language Learning Forums an interesting theory is being discussed. The idea is that it doesn’t matter what materials you use to learn a language, all that matters is time. In other words, you can use any method, it doesn’t matter what, but as long as you do it you [...]
Monday, May 5, 2008
It’s カタカナ time! Lesson 4 - タ to ト。 タ - TA a tadpole with one leg, soon to become a frog. Try not to confuse this one with ク “ku”. チ - CHI a chicken’s feather ツ - TSU A needle and two buttons. Tie this in with ソ ”so” - you’ve now put on two buttons. And pronounce “two” like “tsu”. A bit abstract, but [...]
Thursday, May 1, 2008
What a busy month. I’ve moved house and become very very behind at university. So over all this month I’ve felt very stressed and I don’t believe I’ve made much progress in my Japanese at all. How Much TV I Watch As you know, at the end of last month I started to record [...]
Sunday, April 27, 2008
It’s カタカナ time! I think in learning katakana, it helps to know hiragana. Just like in capital letters and small letters in the roman based alphabet, there are some similarities. For instance, C and c both look similar. An example in Japanese would be か in hiragana and カ in katakana. However, you have to be careful in Japanese, [...]
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Monday, July 7, 2008
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