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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Exile Catchy Best - Well Said.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Exile Catchy Best….Catchy….Catchy Best.  In English that sounds absolutely horrible.  No English pop group would dare put such a name on their album but there it is on a new best hits album from the J-Pop group Exile.
Sometimes it seems like the Japanese are intentionally butchering English to make some crazy point.
In Japanese, “Catchy Best” [...]

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Keep It Moving

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

I ran across some interesting “rules” that accompany Ask Publishing’s Japanese Graded Readers:

１．やさしいレベルから読む
Start at an easy level
２．辞書を引かないで読む
Read without using a dictionary
３．わからないところは飛ばして読む
Skip any parts you don’t understand
４．進まなくなったらやめて、ほかの本を読む
When you hit a bottleneck, stop. Read a different book.

While I don’t think “rules” are necessary (and I do find it fun to read material that is far above my [...]

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Who Cares About the Joyo Kanji?

Monday, April 14, 2008

A couple of thoughts on Kanji:
From the Reviewing the Kanji Forums:

I’m not quite finished [with Hesig's Remembering the Kanji], I need about a month to finish, but it bugs me when I see kanji like 俺 not in the first book. This kanji is extremely popular and should have been taught a lot earlier. This [...]

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What goes into an SRS?

Monday, April 7, 2008

From Nihongo Notes:
If you read or hear anything in Japanese add it to Anki. Everything! Names, places, sentences, signs.
Keep it up. Try not to miss a day or you will begin to forget the cards. You don’t want to end up with hundreds of cards to review as it will only demotivate you. Try to [...]

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