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 Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 7:26 pm
linlinchan bakahito linlinchan The great thing about kanji is once you have learned all the joyo kanji (1945 of them) and most of the important compounds... it makes Japanese one of the easiest to skim/speed-read languages ever. Indeed it is. I think there was a Columbia University professor who published a study saying that when we read, we only read the first and last parts of a word. Although I have no scientific evidence to back this up, I would say that this is true with kanji as well. If you can read the first kanji radical and the last kanji radical quickly, you can just skim over most parts. Thats why I always tell my students to study the kanji radicals as well as the kanji as a whole. Plus, if by some crazy whim you want to take the National Kanji Exam, you`ll be one step ahead whee I'm actually going to take 3kyuu next year. Blargh, it's hard. Way harder than anything I ever had to do back in the day for 1kkyuu of the JLPT. I`ve taken the Kanjiken proxy for level 3 and it is quite deviously hard, especially with all those damn synonyms. So long as my future profession doesnt require it, I think I`ll avoid it like the plauge. I really have to take the business Japanese exam (much harderd than the 1lvl JLPT, IMHOP) because the JLPT is pretty worthless when it comes to actually getting jobs out side of JET CTI, it would seem. First I have to finish college, though... cry
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Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:01 pm
bakahito linlinchan bakahito linlinchan The great thing about kanji is once you have learned all the joyo kanji (1945 of them) and most of the important compounds... it makes Japanese one of the easiest to skim/speed-read languages ever. Indeed it is. I think there was a Columbia University professor who published a study saying that when we read, we only read the first and last parts of a word. Although I have no scientific evidence to back this up, I would say that this is true with kanji as well. If you can read the first kanji radical and the last kanji radical quickly, you can just skim over most parts. Thats why I always tell my students to study the kanji radicals as well as the kanji as a whole. Plus, if by some crazy whim you want to take the National Kanji Exam, you`ll be one step ahead whee I'm actually going to take 3kyuu next year. Blargh, it's hard. Way harder than anything I ever had to do back in the day for 1kkyuu of the JLPT. I`ve taken the Kanjiken proxy for level 3 and it is quite deviously hard, especially with all those damn synonyms. So long as my future profession doesnt require it, I think I`ll avoid it like the plauge. I really have to take the business Japanese exam (much harderd than the 1lvl JLPT, IMHOP) because the JLPT is pretty worthless when it comes to actually getting jobs out side of JET CTI, it would seem. First I have to finish college, though... cry Agreed, I am finding that, while impressive 1kyuu is no where near as helpful as people make it out to be.
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