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There Are No Reading Levels

This post has been a very long time coming.  It’s about how we approach reading Japanese.  It’s about expectancy versus expectation. Expectations are what happens in a perfect world.  The ideal.  What’s supposed to happen.  It’s a list of vocabulary or kanji we’re supposed to know when we see them. Expectancy is anticipating and dealing [...]

Posted 20 October 2008 † Khalid § explore § reading ‡ Comments °

Who Cares About the Joyo Kanji?

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 [...]

Posted 14 April 2008 † Khalid § ‡ Comments °

Learning Kanji From Context

Tae Kim has a great final post up on the “Remembering the Kanji” books. The best part isn’t when he discusses the merits of RTK but when he describes the process he went through in learning Kanji. I may have mentioned this before but I never studied kanji; I studied the words that are made [...]

Posted 31 January 2008 † Khalid § heisig § studying ‡ Comments ° Tagged: , ,