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Strawberry Pocky Parade Vice Captain
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 Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:32 pm
How do people learn the best here? What I mean is.... Do you prefer reading from books? Learning online? Learning from a class? Learning from TV? What works best for you?
I think that I'm a visual and tactile person--this means that I have to see a visual picture of what I'm learning and I need to have a hands-on element to make it feel like real life. So... I guess I prefer putting up words on the walls near items so that I can correspond the vocabulary word with the object. I can read from a book too but there are certain books that work better than others. (That always happens)
So what about you guys?
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:04 pm
Apparently we have the same idea! Just inject that stuff into my brain! Actually, I learn similarly to the way you described, Miss Chloie. When I learn names, I have to be able to see the name written to really have any chance of remembering. But I have to see it and their face. I also learn well by looking at pictures in conjunction with words. So when I was learning Japanese I had a poster on my wall of the verbs and little pictures of their meanings. (to see, to eat, to listen, to go, to come, etc.)
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 4:31 pm
Oh that's pretty cool about the poster. I bet it was a good way to see the words every day so that you can study it. 3nodding I guess just learning things point blank is one of th emost difficult ways to learn. No one can explain it to you but you just have to memorize it. Another element that makes it difficult is that with some things, especially kanji, order is super important! sweatdrop eeesh. That's something that is really hard to learn from a book. That's something that you want to see ONLINE instead because maybe that way you can see it actually done rather than printed on a page... Otherwise I find that flashcards also work. 3nodding
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:24 pm
truth be told, i learn better when working with a group, so i enrolled to take the japanese classes in a community college two years ago. after that, i used all my notes and textbooks to keep up the knowledge, and kept practicing with different books and websites. And yeah, images always help, so yeah, that idea about the verb poster is awesome!
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:29 pm
I actually have a kanji dictionary that not only gives the definition of the character, but phrases in which it is used, and the stroke order! It's quite useful! I also had worksheets that showed stroke order when I was taking a Japanese language class.
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:32 pm
Wrath shino aburame truth be told, i learn better when working with a group, so i enrolled to take the japanese classes in a community college two years ago. after that, i used all my notes and textbooks to keep up the knowledge, and kept practicing with different books and websites. And yeah, images always help, so yeah, that idea about the verb poster is awesome!
The verb poster was something I did on my own. I made a chart up in word and found the pictures myself. It was incredibly helpful. Of all the Japanese I learned, those verbs are one of the few things I retained over the years.
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Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:36 pm
mugoi_usagi
The verb poster was something I did on my own. I made a chart up in word and found the pictures myself. It was incredibly helpful. Of all the Japanese I learned, those verbs are one of the few things I retained over the years.really? wow. i never though of doing something like that because i was too lazy sweatdrop yeah if i had done something like that, it probably would have made my life so much easier. i still learned though. Nihongo ga sugoi desune! xd
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:22 am
Wrath shino aburame mugoi_usagi
The verb poster was something I did on my own. I made a chart up in word and found the pictures myself. It was incredibly helpful. Of all the Japanese I learned, those verbs are one of the few things I retained over the years.really? wow. i never though of doing something like that because i was too lazy sweatdrop yeah if i had done something like that, it probably would have made my life so much easier. i still learned though. Nihongo ga sugoi desune! xd
Now if only I'd retained the other vocab, kana, and sentence structure! Most of Japanese class was spent using Spanish for the words we hadn't learned yet (I didn't speak that either but my friend and I often worked together and she did know it) and English for the words we didn't know in either. We called it Spanglishese.
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:25 am
I started off by learning from Terebi Dorama's but now I learn from those, from sheets of the alphabet [writing them out so I learn them], a dictionary, songs, from my friend [who has been studying it for 3years at Uni] and I shall be going onto Magazines soon =]
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:42 pm
Yama and I are so lucky because we live close to a Japanese market and they have newspapers and magazines there for sale.
That's pretty... complicated Mugoi. xD Makes it sound like you hate English. xDD
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Strawberry Pocky Parade Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:26 pm
Miss Chloie Yama and I are so lucky because we live close to a Japanese market and they have newspapers and magazines there for sale. That's pretty... complicated Mugoi. xD Makes it sound like you hate English. xDD
Oh far from it! lol I'm just terrible at learning other languages! We only ever used Spanglinese in our Japanese class. Mostly because I was so bad at remembering my Japanese vocabulary. In fact, I'm so bad at learning other languages that I pride myself on how fluently I speak English. Hell, I had better grammar that some of my English teachers back in high school!
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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:32 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:45 am
i'm curently taking japanese 1 but that's not really how i've been learning.... there's a sight i go on that can quiz you on both kana and select kanji (you get to pick them yourself) i learn things after i've been tested on them (which is a pain but still >.<) i've learned to read hiragana with that site, here's the link: here biggrin problem is, i don't know any verbs or how to use them sweatdrop i learn words through looking them up in translators and then finding the kanji for them on kanjiroushi.... or by naming my stuff (ex, my ipod is aiyou 『愛用』 which means habitual use...) XD 私のおたくでしょね？ sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 2:08 pm
私は本を使ったり、 JapanesePod101.comのPodcastsを使ったり、 日本の音楽を聞いたりして、 学びます。 全部一人で。 ^^
I use books, podcasts, and listen to Japanese music... there are no classes around here that I can take so I learn alone. xD
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