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 Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:16 am
^ that happens to me too you know. If I don't know a word or can't read a kanji it's hop to the dictionary ^^
it's really a helper but it makes reading slower ^^;
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:51 am
Here's a good place to practice Kana: Teach Yourself Japanese. If your browser doesn't support frames go here instead: Java Program to Memorize Kana. Also, if you need to practice your response time with hiragana and katakana, that website I first mentioned has a program on there for that, too. Again, if your browser doesn't support frames, go here: Java Program of Hiragana and Katakana. I haven't found any programs like this to help with Kanji characters, however. (I'm building my own at the moment because of this factor.) So I hope this helps some.
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Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:04 pm
I really slow at reading. I typically need to write it down in romaji form on a note pad before I can figure it out. Learning more kanji has helped comprehension, but Im still really slow reading kana.
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Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 8:18 pm
So long as I know the kanji, about as long as it takes me to read English. Though, for some reason, it takes me forever to read outloud. I have no idea why... stare
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:51 pm
When reading silently, I can read Japanese about half the speed I can read English. But when I try to read it aloud, I usually talk pretty slowly, plus I read some characters wrong sweatdrop Plus, I don't even know how to pronounce some kanji... I'm just able to tell their general meanings by what radicals are in it.
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:07 am
I'm studying to take the JLPT 3 test this December, and it is very difficult. You have slightly under 60 seconds to spend on each question, and some of the questions are long, and have long sentences for each of the choices.
Instead of a question like,
My favorite food isn't pizza, it's ___
A. cars.
B. fried chicken.
C. computers.
D. pencils.
You'll have questions that are 2 or 3 lines long, and answer-choices that are 5-10 words long apiece. And you have to read the whole thing, understand it, and choose your answer in well under 60 seconds.
Unfortunately, since I've been out of class for three years, my Japanese reading speed has degraded unbelievably. I can read a kana a second, which is horrendously slow; a much better speed would be 4-5 kana a second.
But I have beef with the Nakama textbooks that we've been using, I don't think they're very good textbooks at all. I don't know how much difference it would make in my reading speed, though, to have better textbooks. /shrug.
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:33 pm
SannaSK I'm studying to take the JLPT 3 test this December, and it is very difficult. You have slightly under 60 seconds to spend on each question, and some of the questions are long, and have long sentences for each of the choices. Instead of a question like, My favorite food isn't pizza, it's ___ A. cars. B. fried chicken. C. computers. D. pencils. You'll have questions that are 2 or 3 lines long, and answer-choices that are 5-10 words long apiece. And you have to read the whole thing, understand it, and choose your answer in well under 60 seconds. Unfortunately, since I've been out of class for three years, my Japanese reading speed has degraded unbelievably. I can read a kana a second, which is horrendously slow; a much better speed would be 4-5 kana a second. But I have beef with the Nakama textbooks that we've been using, I don't think they're very good textbooks at all. I don't know how much difference it would make in my reading speed, though, to have better textbooks. /shrug. I would recommend something like the EyeQ program to help you improve your reading speed(note that there are cheaper alternatives to EyeQ)
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:33 pm
I can't read fast at all... I barely know any kanji, and I'm mostly reading things with the tiny kana beside the kanji to help. I still read painfully slow...
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 1:26 pm
Hehe, well i think im faster that sakura, but not much faster.
I can read hiragana as the alfabet, katakana takes just a bit longer. And kanji depend on wether ive learned them or not. But normally i can see what it means, but than the way of naming it takes a bit longer.
Translating it to my own language takes a bit longer, cause i first translate it to english, and than to dutch. razz
I think 1 word would take at most a second but a whole sentence can take as long as the kanji makes it razz
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