David Hallgren
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こんにちはみんなさん!
I decided to make a post about learning kanji in order to share my thoughts and to receive some feedback. I've only studied japanese on my own yet, for about four months. But I will take a course at Gothenburgs University after the summer. I've only studied kanji seriously for about a month. Therefore I obviously can't say that much about learning them, but I felt I could share some thoughts anyway. So far I have learned to write and read about 150 kanji.
The method I use is that I every third day use this function on my site: David Hallgren's Japanese Page I print and cut out 15 kanji, then split these into three piles with 5 in each and concentrate on on pile a day. I believe it is more efficient to study for 5 minutes 12 times a day, rather than for one hour straight once a day. I bring them to work as well and take a short break every hour or so to repeat the readings and to write them. Since it is only 5 kanji this takes no time. And to really make sure I don't forget any kanji I've learned so far, I once a week take all flashcards and test my self on all of them. Those I don't remember correctly I put in new pile and repeat those the next day. This seems to be very efficient to memorize those 4-5 kanji whose on-readings are giving me some headache.
But, as I said I've only studied for about a month and there I can't say that much about learning in such a way that you remember the readings for a long time. But what I've found so far is that it seems to be far more easy to remember a reading if I learn a word where that kanji is used with that reading at the same time. And not only does this make me remember the readings more easily, it also makes me learn new vocabulary.
Please share your thoughts on learning kanji! I would also like to know if any of you have any use for the function to print flashcards on my site. Unfortunately the database only contain about 150 kanji so far so those of you who already know a lot of kanji won't have any use of it. Also, I've haven't included every reading of the kanji but focused on those listed in Genki, which seems to be the most common anyway. I don't think I've entered more than 6 readings to any kanji yet.
Finally, to all of you who are striving to master this interesting language, がんばってください!
I decided to make a post about learning kanji in order to share my thoughts and to receive some feedback. I've only studied japanese on my own yet, for about four months. But I will take a course at Gothenburgs University after the summer. I've only studied kanji seriously for about a month. Therefore I obviously can't say that much about learning them, but I felt I could share some thoughts anyway. So far I have learned to write and read about 150 kanji.
The method I use is that I every third day use this function on my site: David Hallgren's Japanese Page I print and cut out 15 kanji, then split these into three piles with 5 in each and concentrate on on pile a day. I believe it is more efficient to study for 5 minutes 12 times a day, rather than for one hour straight once a day. I bring them to work as well and take a short break every hour or so to repeat the readings and to write them. Since it is only 5 kanji this takes no time. And to really make sure I don't forget any kanji I've learned so far, I once a week take all flashcards and test my self on all of them. Those I don't remember correctly I put in new pile and repeat those the next day. This seems to be very efficient to memorize those 4-5 kanji whose on-readings are giving me some headache.
But, as I said I've only studied for about a month and there I can't say that much about learning in such a way that you remember the readings for a long time. But what I've found so far is that it seems to be far more easy to remember a reading if I learn a word where that kanji is used with that reading at the same time. And not only does this make me remember the readings more easily, it also makes me learn new vocabulary.
Please share your thoughts on learning kanji! I would also like to know if any of you have any use for the function to print flashcards on my site. Unfortunately the database only contain about 150 kanji so far so those of you who already know a lot of kanji won't have any use of it. Also, I've haven't included every reading of the kanji but focused on those listed in Genki, which seems to be the most common anyway. I don't think I've entered more than 6 readings to any kanji yet.
Finally, to all of you who are striving to master this interesting language, がんばってください!