I can find a bunch of kanji books that teach up to 1000 kanji.
But what am I supposed to do after that? I can't find any books that teach more than 1000. I feel limited only knowing that much, since it's elementary school level literacy.
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Anonymous2010-08-27 8:19
http://www.kanji-a-day.com/
It's geared towards JLPT students and has the stroke order diagrams for the kanji.
If you have an iPod Touch, There's an app called "Kotoba!" that's completely free and another one is "Japanese", it's $16, but has thousands more entries and animated stroke order diagrams and has vocab lists that you can create to help you study. I have tried both and "Japanese" has many more features and I use the program daily. I've had it for about 1.5 years and it just gets better with every update. http://itunes.apple.com/app/japanese/id290664053?mt=8
Read the reviews, try them
There are more websites like kanji-a-day that have all the kanji that are in common use. Just poke around a little bit and you'll find them.
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Anonymous2010-08-27 16:17
Want to learn 日本語？
Here, go in order...
1. Learn the kana (hiragana/katakana) from Wikipedia. Just study these for the first weeks until you can pretty much tell the difference between ぴ and ぬ. Pretty much, study everyday the stroke order, what they look like, and how to say them. Do 5-20 a day. Depending on how much time you have but I don't recommenced anymore. You don't need to waste money on a book for learning the kana, it really is easy...
2. Get Remembering the Kanji Part 1. Complete this book. It should take 3-9 months depending on if you do 5 a day or 20 a day..etc...
3. Learn 10,000 sentences. Either from music, anime, books, whatever. Make sure these sentences are accurate. This way so you are learning the grammar and the pronunciations for the kanji you learned in Remembering the Kanji.
>>243
>Remembering the Kanji
I have the complete volume.
Major problem is that the book has neither 訓読み nor 音読み making you associate kanji with english words. That effectively kills you ability to learn a language. You need to learn to THINK in the language.
This is the proper thought order:
田-> た -> rice field
This is what the book teaches you:
田-> rice field-> (get dictionary)-> た
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Anonymous2010-08-27 18:20
>>244
Check out that website. His way of learning the 訓読み and 音読み is by learning sentences and it just comes natural.
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Anonymous2010-08-27 19:26
>>245
I saw the website, and I saw some pretty good stuff there. There are better books for learning kanji, however. It's much better to associate the readings with the kanji without knowing the meaning at first than to associate the translation with the kanji.
I took several years of French in HS and the teacher would teach us in a non-immersion environment, relating each new word to English, and out of context.
So, when we had to speak in class, we ended up starting with the question that was in French, translating it into English in our heads, formulating an English response, then translating each word separately into French, then trying to get the grammar/ conjugations right. tl;dr, We were learning individual words, not how to think in French.
I mention this because one thing that I DID learn in HS French was to NEVER associate individual parts of a sentence to your native language when learning another language as that can only hinder your efforts.
I will look through what I have and see if I can come up with a better recommendation for a book, and when I do, I will be sure to post it here.
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Anonymous2010-08-30 5:56
Fuck RTK. Kanjidamage does the same job better. Just compare any story from RTK with
So! Now we are ready to do our mnemonic, which will help us remember the difference between the two kanji:
Each COCK in your mouth crosses your nose.
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Anonymous2010-08-30 16:52
I keep running into what looks like -te form with る directly after it instead of いる.
>>249
As >>250 wrote, お大事に is the Japanese for "bless you"
but we don't say anything after someone sneezes in Japan.
It'll be more natural to ask 大丈夫？, 風邪？, etc than to say お大事に.
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Anonymous2010-08-31 11:20
Reading Genki. They have question like "where do you go on evenings" with free answer in section about で,に,へ particles.
Disregarding these particles, what is the correct way to say that I don't go out on weekends?
Can 週末には家を出ません be used? Or maybe 週末には家から行きません?
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Anonymous2010-08-31 11:23
Can someone correct me on this? I'm trying to make a few sentences in Japanese:
"This is picture is a picture of my guitar. My guitar costs 40000 yen. I have 2 guitars that I love very much."
"Kore wa watashi no gitaa no shasin desu. Watashi no gitaa wa yonman-en shimasu. Watashi wa gitaa wa futatsu arimasu."
I'm not very confident with the last sentence, and I don't know how to include the 'I love very much' part.
omisson of the subject makes your japanese natural.
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Anonymous2010-08-31 14:43
>>252
週末には家を出ません and 週末には家から行きません are unnatural.
週末は家から出ません or 週末は（ずっと）家にいます is good.
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Anonymous2010-09-02 6:29
>>251
Yeah, it'll be more natural to say 大丈夫？, but if you don't know each other, he/she may feel strange.
This is because, as you know, in Japan, we usually don't say anything after someone sneezes.
I think the habit to say "bless you!" for somebody's sneeze came from some Christians' habit?
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Anonymous2010-09-02 12:35
>>256
Yeah, something like the devil being expelled from their soul. I know that some other cultures have something similar without the same background and was wondering if JP was one of those.
Also, out of the Japanese friends that I have, I've noticed that most say 「大丈夫？」and I hear most non-native speakers say 「大丈夫か？」Is there a certain context to use each in, is it formality, speaker preference, or something else?
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Anonymous2010-09-02 13:58
Posted my question in a wrong thread. Anyway, I need some help. I'm practicing my Japanese by trying to read some manga, and so far so good. But one I've gotten stuck with is this line
"重工の保安課長がようやくおロープ丁載したみたい十五分まえね"
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Japanese2010-09-02 14:44
>>257
「大丈夫？」 is used when you ask someone if he/she/something is ok, whereas 「大丈夫か？」 is sometimes used
to show others that the speaker doubts someone/something is ok.
大丈夫？ - A direct question.
大丈夫か？ - A direct question or an objective doubt.
Using 「大丈夫か？」 as a direct question is not wrong, but it sounds stronger than 「大丈夫？」.
It should also be noted that if 「か」 is used with polite forms like 「です」, 「でした」, 「ます」, 「ました」, etc.,
it does not sound strong at all. Rather, a polite form with 「か」 may sound slightly more formal than
a polite form without 「か」.
I guess these subtle nuances are difficult for Japanese learners to understand. This will be the reason why you hear
most non-native speakers say 「大丈夫か？」.
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Japanese2010-09-02 14:54
Without the context, It is hard to make out the meaning.
Is 「おロープ」 correct?
Misreading of 「ロープを」?
- 重工の保安課長がようやくおロープ丁載したみたい
- 十五分まえね
You have written these two like a single sentence, but
aren't these seperate sentences?
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Anonymous2010-09-02 15:24
That's how it's written in the manga, it's the very first sentence of the manga and that's how it is, all one sentence with very little context. About all I can think of is "Rope Street"?
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Anonymous2010-09-02 19:58
It's not 「おロープ」
When someone are arrest, people can say 「お縄を頂戴する」
I'm not sure my English is correct so please try to understand my English.
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Anonymous2010-09-02 23:30
I think I see what you mean, it's another way to say he was arrested?
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Anonymous2010-09-03 0:34
Anyone know what 「だったんだがな...」 could mean? There's not much context, saw it on a message board as just "PS>> だったんだがな"
I'm doing some translating work on the side right now, and the story I'm working on has a lot of "お嬢様" being thrown around. I know what it means, but I don't know how it would best sound in english. The line is "Be sure to thank the the お嬢様". Not sure if I should just translate it as "Oujou-sama" or "young Miss".
Any recommendations for a proper way to put it in english without sounding awkward.
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Young mistress, lass, lady, young lady, gentlewoman, my lady, my young lady, et al ad infinitum. If you're a translator, you already know the context is going to be the deciding factor on what makes the most sense.