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Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2014-03-21T20:58:21-06:00

Now level 3, I got the 1 year subscription at 50% off. The pace is slowly picking up which is nice, but I find that a lot of the mnemonics are weak so I have to come up with my own. So far though it's definitely a great experience.

Statistics: Posted by ZxC — March 21st, 2014, 8:58 pm

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2014-03-12T12:04:55-06:00

Ok, so I was going to try it out and ran in to a problem. I feel like I'm missing something really obvious but I cant figure out how to start lol. I went to the link and did the beta sign up thing but that's all. When I clicked on the confirmation link It takes me back to the same page with he sign up and there crab alligator mascot thing. Can someone help?

Edit: I may have found it out. It sent me another email that I got into its beta thing and had to do all that stuff. So yeah I dont need help anymore. I think... That email was hilarious though.

Statistics: Posted by Thr — March 12th, 2014, 12:04 pm

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2014-03-11T23:03:43-06:00

Thr wrote:

I might give Wanikani a try and see how I do. I've never been good at learning new languages though.

It's actually really great in my opinion. I just got kinda burnt out after doing it daily for 6 months, hehe. Still learned a ton though!!

Statistics: Posted by Saten Ruiko — March 11th, 2014, 11:03 pm

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2014-03-11T22:29:15-06:00

I might give Wanikani a try and see how I do. I've never been good at learning new languages though.

Statistics: Posted by Thr — March 11th, 2014, 10:29 pm

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2014-03-11T19:27:08-06:00

I used the heck out of Wanikani for 6+ months but I've finally fallen off of it because I've got so much other stuff going on. I stopped at level 19 (I have exactly 1234 reviews right now lol) but according to Wanikani I've permanently burned 126 Kanji, and that's dang awesome. I'm pretty happy with that having come from knowing none of them before. I think I would enjoy continuing this and learning so much more, but it's a problem that I would never get a chance to use it, so I wouldn't really have a reason to learn it in the first place, and I'd lose some of it through inactivity.

Before my subscription runs out in June or July or whatever I'm gonna do all my reviews again and see what my final burn count will sit at.

Statistics: Posted by Saten Ruiko — March 11th, 2014, 7:27 pm

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2014-03-10T18:36:02-06:00

Just reached level 2, and wow 74 lessons to do now haha.
Kind of annoying how vocab switches onyomi and kunyomi readings around so much, but other than that it's going great. Definitely my favorite kanji learning tool so far

Statistics: Posted by ZxC — March 10th, 2014, 6:36 pm

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2013-12-14T07:05:21-06:00

Way to go jaron!

Statistics: Posted by Market Man6 — December 14th, 2013, 7:05 am

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2013-12-14T01:58:43-06:00

So yet another followup post because why not:

I just hit six months of doing WaniKani, and it's taught me over 600 Kanji. Now obviously some of these are starting to fade from memory, but the vast majority are not, and if I'm not strong enough in them then it starts making me review them more often again. It all kinda works out!

The black ones in the image above mean that WaniKani feels I know those items permanently and will never ask me about them again. That's a cool feeling.

Also this week I learned that the meanings of Japanese kanji are usually equivalent with the meanings of their respective Chinese characters (kanji is just Chinese brought into Japan). I saw a computer program in Chinese a couple of days ago and I was like "oh jeez I can infer a lot of this actually". It's like I've been learning a BONUS language by ACCIDENT and that is ALSO a cool feeling.

Statistics: Posted by Saten Ruiko — December 14th, 2013, 1:58 am

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2013-11-17T18:44:47-06:00

I hope you won't mind I would like to post this on the front page as an article. If you attest, just message me or reply here.. otherwise I'll assume you don't mind since it was posted publicly to the board.

It's the best piece anyone has written in a long time - most posts are like 4 lines long. lol

Statistics: Posted by Demon — November 17th, 2013, 6:44 pm

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2013-11-17T08:31:30-06:00

Yeah I don't feel like paying for it. :<

Statistics: Posted by Judge — November 17th, 2013, 8:31 am

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2013-11-14T23:03:45-06:00

Closing in on level 16 now. I see you stopped after level 1, eh Judge?

It's always fun when it teaches me words that I've vaguely heard before, like today I learned "jihen" (Tokyo Jihen is like Azn's #1 band on Last.FM) and "shinjiru" (means 'to believe', which you hear a ton if you've seen TTGL).

Statistics: Posted by Saten Ruiko — November 14th, 2013, 11:03 pm

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2013-10-10T21:30:54-06:00

Judge wrote:

This is getting out of hand. T_T Thank Gawd for reviews!

Congrats on reaching level 2! Only 49 more to go. Now do those Lessons!

Statistics: Posted by Saten Ruiko — October 10th, 2013, 9:30 pm

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2013-10-08T09:23:03-06:00

This is getting out of hand. T_T Thank Gawd for reviews!

Statistics: Posted by Judge — October 8th, 2013, 9:23 am

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2013-10-06T00:16:52-06:00

Judge wrote:

No, I've figured it out. The onyomi were added all of the sudden without explanation and I wasn't prepared to be tested on it. Suddenly it got a lot harder too, trying to remember the correct sounds. D:

Yeah--for each kanji, it teaches you either the kun'yomi or the on'yomi, based on which one they feel is more widely used in general. But then when you learn vocabulary words it throws in a mix of both of course.

Unless you mean it specifically tested you on a certain reading, in which case I haven't seen that before myself but I've vaguely heard of it?

Statistics: Posted by Saten Ruiko — October 6th, 2013, 12:16 am

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2013-10-03T10:19:42-06:00

Statistics: Posted by Judge — October 3rd, 2013, 10:19 am

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2013-10-01T08:54:51-06:00

Judge wrote:

I've started Kanji, but what do the readings mean? There's "cat" with the kanji "enter" apparently... No clue here!

I'm not sure what you mean (or if you're being sarcastic). Wouldn't cat be neko, not nyuu?

Statistics: Posted by Saten Ruiko — October 1st, 2013, 8:54 am

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2013-10-01T05:33:54-06:00

I've started Kanji, but what do the readings mean? There's "cat" with the kanji "enter" apparently... No clue here!

Statistics: Posted by Judge — October 1st, 2013, 5:33 am

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2013-09-30T18:00:27-06:00

It's incredibly slow at first; the first week kinda crawls by. It picks up rather quickly, and by level 10-11 if I log on once a day I've probably got 100 reviews. I did 89 earlier today, unlocked 6 lessons out of it, and have 46 more now that I'll probably do later tonight. (It won't be that overwhelming for you for quite a while though.)

Statistics: Posted by Saten Ruiko — September 30th, 2013, 6:00 pm

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2013-09-30T10:45:50-06:00

I'm Mraedis, the progress is quite slow but it helps to keep me interested by wondering when I can do the next batch. ^^ Also, that's a lot of Kanji. D:

Statistics: Posted by Judge — September 30th, 2013, 10:45 am

Re: Ever wanted to learn Japanese?

2013-09-29T13:37:48-06:00

Judge wrote:

I've started this, should be interesting.

Neat, good luck! What's your username? Mine is Jaron if you ever want to look me up.

I'm level 11 now with 355 Kanji learned; should reach level 12 sometime this week. On average, I'm learning around 35 Kanji every 10 days. Here's my new progress lattice compared to the one I posted a month and a half ago:

Statistics: Posted by Saten Ruiko — September 29th, 2013, 1:37 pm