tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705193176014633075.post6612299627088569842..comments2024-03-29T00:10:37.402-07:00Comments on Living Japanese: Do Not Wait for JapaneseTigorishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00216918083382717395noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705193176014633075.post-91240359001889425432011-07-26T13:12:58.061-07:002011-07-26T13:12:58.061-07:00I actually started learning Japanese several years...I actually started learning Japanese several years ago, but then school became too much and I had to wait with it. (I studied on my free time, there's no interest in the language over here, and the schools "can't afford" getting teachers or anything anyway.) I had to put it off for so long that I forgot most of what I had learned. So yeah, waiting is bad.linkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09614199961156509161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705193176014633075.post-74307535541048660722011-07-23T03:00:03.273-07:002011-07-23T03:00:03.273-07:00I get what you're saying and totally agree in ...I get what you're saying and totally agree in most cases. But things aren't always as simple, it isn't just the time that it takes to do the practice but the amount of information it ends up being, and how much strain on your mental capacity for learning it costs you. After learning your brain should still be throwing the new information around your head for a while which is good for learning as tomorrow you will probably magically feel a lot more comfortable with something that was a real problem the day before.<br /><br />On the other hand if you really do have to use that capacity for learning something else then learning a new language can be counter productive as your head jumbles up the information. So stuff like languages can be really distracting...<br /><br />In my case I have to learn six years of mathematics in about four weeks, only three weeks of which remain. I really don't have the spare capacity to be learning anything else, and pretty much willingly accept the cost and damage of dropping everything else for the time being.<br /><br />I'll pick it up, along with other stuff to broaden my skillset sometime in late August. Japanese will probably end up taking some level of priority as I figure out how viable and economically strenuous a C81 trip will be.librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15690619052486454934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705193176014633075.post-76852822149834289802011-07-20T05:17:15.007-07:002011-07-20T05:17:15.007-07:00It sounds like your main problem is learning multi...It sounds like your main problem is learning multiple words at once. It's pretty hard not to be learning more than one word at a time when you've just begun, so this is really just another part of starting out. As long as you're making progress with the sentences, you're doing good. Should you ever stop making progress with a sentence and get stuck on it every single time, then just delete it. It's not like that word exists only in that one sentence, so if you can't learn it right now for some reason, then just put it off until the next time you meet it.<br /><br />With that said, try to keep the sentences and vocabulary simple at first. Short sentences that focus on a single new word will be much easier to get down than a longer sentence with multiple new words. In addition to shorter sentences, simple and common words will really help. Learning the most basic words first will give you a really strong foundation to build from. (Going to make a post about good words to learn first, which might help you out some)<br /><br />Finally, it sounds to me like you're doing a great job. If you're working on learning sentences with multiple new words in them, then they're going to take several times longer to get down (and be several times harder to keep down!). Don't sweat it if you keep coming back to the same sentence and find that you forgot a word, because you're guaranteed to forget words - that's why you use an SRS! Just keep trying and keep reviewing your sentences whenever Anki says they're ready and you'll master the words eventually.<br /><br />As for cutting back on kanji reviews, definitely do not do that. I reviewed at least 50 kanji a day for probably a year or more after I'd finished learning them. Not that you have to review as many as I did, or that you necessarily have to keep reviewing for as long as I did, but you're going to need to keep reviewing for a while in order to remember them.Tigorishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00216918083382717395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705193176014633075.post-85126296132485028482011-07-19T22:30:47.787-07:002011-07-19T22:30:47.787-07:00Ah, not to know this off topic or anything. Throwi...Ah, not to know this off topic or anything. Throwing in that waiting really does prevent people from learning. It's hard at first to take that step into something new like your first manga, but it will only get easier if you try; not if you put it off until later and magically expect it to all make sense at a certain point.Kirari Starhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04119039616681840571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2705193176014633075.post-72731864187212423302011-07-19T22:29:11.883-07:002011-07-19T22:29:11.883-07:00Right now sentences seem to be pretty awkward for ...Right now sentences seem to be pretty awkward for me. Maybe because I'm just starting and because I have some sentences with multiple words I'm learning rather than just 1 word. It's only been a few days, but a lot of my sentences are only partially learned. That isn't to say I'm not making progress with them, just still getting stuck on them. ほとほと困るだよ・・・・<br /><br />I've been thinking about maybe just reviewing more frequently. Should I lower my daily kanji review amount (at 25) and instead use some extra time to add a second round of sentence review in my day? Of course, I know it's really best to stick with what I'm more comfortable with, just asking if you think it'd be a wise idea to do this.<br /><br />And I'm still at the "T...th...the cat...the CAT in...in... THE CAT IN THE HAT" phase for a majority of the sentences, but I some I breeze through rather nicely.Kirari Starhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04119039616681840571noreply@blogger.com