Ichi ni san shi go roku nana hachi kyu jyu. 1-10 baby =D
I also know the kenji for it but thats just a pain to get in this blog =(
So i did some kanji last night with anki as my kanji book isnt here yet but no point in waiting for it. It was a good start having the 1-10 the first 10 kanji to learn but then it went off in a random tangent....day,corn field,old,bright,eye,I,month,companion,mouth
Im going to keep at it though as some japanese is better than none, ive thought up a few stories for a bunch of kanji for example
eye - EYE spy a 4 level bunk bed
Companion - two twins standing side by side, the best companion you could ask for.
Prosperous - an open chest is not a prosperous chest
Early - man with arms spread complains about getting up early
Rising sun - the day of the nine armed man (best i could think of)
I was looking at the FNN website and going through news lists trying to say whatever was in hiragana out loud, but theres just far too much kani and katakana, so im going to start with katakana today and hopefully get it done in a few days and then once i can read everything thats not a kanji ill start saying it and looking up random words =)
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Monday, 30 August 2010
Monday august 30th
So ive ordered the remembering the kanji book just about 30 minutes ago. i waited in hope of just getting it in my local big bookstore but they checked everyone of there chains in britain and they didnt have any. But hey, i got it off amazon for 10 pound less. score =)
I bought a reasonable headset for 27 pounds with a mic so i can practice pronounciation at a later date.
ANki was being mean and telling me i ws doing to much and to buggar off =D Ive reached a point with hiagana that, if you showed me the symbol i could match the word but if it was the other way round i could maybe get 50-60% of them. some for example me,wo,nu and me keep on getting me mixed up but i didnt a hiragana exercise chart and i got 95% of it right so im pretty chuffed.
I got a program called Iradio which allows you to record radio stations so i googled "japanese radio" and got a bunch of music and talk shows so ive started to get a library of stuff ican listen when i need some audio input. It also does pretty well recognizing the author of the song so makes it easy to go by the albums.
しおなら は いま (if thats right lol supposed to say sionara for now)
I bought a reasonable headset for 27 pounds with a mic so i can practice pronounciation at a later date.
ANki was being mean and telling me i ws doing to much and to buggar off =D Ive reached a point with hiagana that, if you showed me the symbol i could match the word but if it was the other way round i could maybe get 50-60% of them. some for example me,wo,nu and me keep on getting me mixed up but i didnt a hiragana exercise chart and i got 95% of it right so im pretty chuffed.
I got a program called Iradio which allows you to record radio stations so i googled "japanese radio" and got a bunch of music and talk shows so ive started to get a library of stuff ican listen when i need some audio input. It also does pretty well recognizing the author of the song so makes it easy to go by the albums.
しおなら は いま (if thats right lol supposed to say sionara for now)
Saturday, 28 August 2010
wow anki is the BOMB
I started ith hirigana last ngiht and im already zooming through smart.fms tests and getting around 2 minutes on the http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/sheaa/projects/genki/hiragana-timer.html
I still expect to forget quite a few so if i keep it up i think ill have it under the bag by the end of the week =)
I still expect to forget quite a few so if i keep it up i think ill have it under the bag by the end of the week =)
Friday, 27 August 2010
Day 1 - friday 27th august 2010
So this is what i do for my first day....
I pull up the http://www.fnn-news.com/ website and set it as my homepage. i thn paly the news on repeat for a few hours whilst doing oth things.
Im now listening to the first audio file on http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6241&PN=1&TPN=1 and writing this blog.
Becuase i dont have a kenji book yet i get hte anki program and use a hiragana program to start learning that. i have 30 i have looked at today and theres only a few i remember from the bunch A,I,U,E,O,NO and SHI. Thats about a 20% retention rate, pretty crap if you ask me, im going to try go over them tongiht and see if i can improve.
Im looking for my ipod nano(damn you for being small! ) and going to dump a lot of those stories off the second link to listen to while i sleep.
I dont have any money at he moment to buy movies, music, books etc so that will ahve to wait till monday when i have been paid =D
Peace out guys =)
I pull up the http://www.fnn-news.com/ website and set it as my homepage. i thn paly the news on repeat for a few hours whilst doing oth things.
Im now listening to the first audio file on http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6241&PN=1&TPN=1 and writing this blog.
Becuase i dont have a kenji book yet i get hte anki program and use a hiragana program to start learning that. i have 30 i have looked at today and theres only a few i remember from the bunch A,I,U,E,O,NO and SHI. Thats about a 20% retention rate, pretty crap if you ask me, im going to try go over them tongiht and see if i can improve.
Im looking for my ipod nano(damn you for being small! ) and going to dump a lot of those stories off the second link to listen to while i sleep.
I dont have any money at he moment to buy movies, music, books etc so that will ahve to wait till monday when i have been paid =D
Peace out guys =)
about me
So lets begin with my huuuuge knowledge of the japanese language.
Konichiwa
watashi wa jamie des, dozo yoroishku
Hajimimashte
...
...
Well thats about it =)
I really am starting from scratch an dthats why i tihkn its so important i make a blog about this so people in the same boat can think, well hes at this stage so i must be doing pretty good =D
theres a lot of posts about guys like "well ive been studying kanji for 5 months and im on 1400 words" or something along those lines but nothing from people just starting.
So what do i want to do. First iwant to get a basic grasp of japanese to communicate with japanese people. secondly im applying for the JET ALT program at hte end of september and although you dont need japanese for these programme i deffinetly want to learnas i would just feel liek a outcast, teaching in japan and not knowing japanese i mean, come on! how rude is that. It even annoys me when ihave to deal with customers from lets say poland or russia( we get alot in scotland atm) who when you ask a question look at you oddly and just say yes or no, they obviously dont know what im asking or making an attempt to learn it just winds me up to no end, so i deffinetly dont want people to think of me in that way too =)
Konichiwa
watashi wa jamie des, dozo yoroishku
Hajimimashte
...
...
Well thats about it =)
I really am starting from scratch an dthats why i tihkn its so important i make a blog about this so people in the same boat can think, well hes at this stage so i must be doing pretty good =D
theres a lot of posts about guys like "well ive been studying kanji for 5 months and im on 1400 words" or something along those lines but nothing from people just starting.
So what do i want to do. First iwant to get a basic grasp of japanese to communicate with japanese people. secondly im applying for the JET ALT program at hte end of september and although you dont need japanese for these programme i deffinetly want to learnas i would just feel liek a outcast, teaching in japan and not knowing japanese i mean, come on! how rude is that. It even annoys me when ihave to deal with customers from lets say poland or russia( we get alot in scotland atm) who when you ask a question look at you oddly and just say yes or no, they obviously dont know what im asking or making an attempt to learn it just winds me up to no end, so i deffinetly dont want people to think of me in that way too =)
The beginning
Hi guys and welcome to my blog on learning lapanese using the AJATT method.
So what is the AJATT you might ask ( probably not as your going to be getting this link from his website most likely lol), you know what, i wont explain it, go read his site he can explain it far better than i can. The main part of his method is, your not activly learning specific words, like he said its a bit like magic, you learn the language by just constantly listening to it. He said its hard to describe and i agree with him. the best explaination he could find was like growing a plant, you plant the seed, water it then watch it grow. the plant is you, the learner. the water is the japanese language. You simply grow from listening to it and after a while you just learn to understand it. Its not as if you come out of the womb, get handed a "learn english in 3 years" book and expect to learn jsut from that.
1.) You are immersed in the language from day. Your parents are speaking , the tv is on, neighbours, people outside, your toys singing, your music books, your parents cd on. Then you start saying words like dada, or mama, then things like car, bus, foot,hand.
2.) Then you start to form basic sentances or repeat what people say around you. "How are you","i'm hungry","i want sweeties", "give me all your money woman" =D.
3.) After that you start asking questions all the time to bug your parents " whats that, whats this, how does that work, why does water fall from the sky, where does that go, are we there yet?, are we there yet?, are we there yet?
4.) By that stage your already using basic language structures an thats when you go to school to learn about writing,grammer and punctuation.
So lets look at it from a AJATT view point
1.)Quite straight forward and following the AJATT approach, get japanese music, watch japanese tv, listen to japanese news, go down to your local japanese hangout with the trenchcoat and listen in on the conversations(probably not the best way) but basically, be like the baby, you wont understand it all, you will be wondering whats going onbut by doing that you will be learning. you will think " what does that news program mean? well it has a police car and a ambulance, theres probably been a accident so im thinking the rough conversation will go like this. Even if your completly wrong your still learning from your mistakes.
2.)When you watch your favourite tv show or anime there will be lines that are very memorable and those will stick in your head the easiest. If your doing your own learning outside of AJATT like flash cards you will prboably be able to say stuff, like hello, how are you, my name is, what time is it, where do i go for __ (oh crap i dont know the word for X)
3.) If you have japanes friends you be very annoying and ask them words for everything "how do you say that, what about this, what about this?" If you dont have any japanese friends this is where the dictionary comes into play, you see a word you dont know? well look it up! theres one more word for your vocabulary =)
4.) you will most liekly be doing most of the studying on your own from kanji lessons or translationg manga or anime. By this time you really need to think about getting some friends again(especially japanese ones =P )
So thats enough about this, i wasnt planning on making such a big post. next post about myself and what i am to do =)
So what is the AJATT you might ask ( probably not as your going to be getting this link from his website most likely lol), you know what, i wont explain it, go read his site he can explain it far better than i can. The main part of his method is, your not activly learning specific words, like he said its a bit like magic, you learn the language by just constantly listening to it. He said its hard to describe and i agree with him. the best explaination he could find was like growing a plant, you plant the seed, water it then watch it grow. the plant is you, the learner. the water is the japanese language. You simply grow from listening to it and after a while you just learn to understand it. Its not as if you come out of the womb, get handed a "learn english in 3 years" book and expect to learn jsut from that.
1.) You are immersed in the language from day. Your parents are speaking , the tv is on, neighbours, people outside, your toys singing, your music books, your parents cd on. Then you start saying words like dada, or mama, then things like car, bus, foot,hand.
2.) Then you start to form basic sentances or repeat what people say around you. "How are you","i'm hungry","i want sweeties", "give me all your money woman" =D.
3.) After that you start asking questions all the time to bug your parents " whats that, whats this, how does that work, why does water fall from the sky, where does that go, are we there yet?, are we there yet?, are we there yet?
4.) By that stage your already using basic language structures an thats when you go to school to learn about writing,grammer and punctuation.
So lets look at it from a AJATT view point
1.)Quite straight forward and following the AJATT approach, get japanese music, watch japanese tv, listen to japanese news, go down to your local japanese hangout with the trenchcoat and listen in on the conversations(probably not the best way) but basically, be like the baby, you wont understand it all, you will be wondering whats going onbut by doing that you will be learning. you will think " what does that news program mean? well it has a police car and a ambulance, theres probably been a accident so im thinking the rough conversation will go like this. Even if your completly wrong your still learning from your mistakes.
2.)When you watch your favourite tv show or anime there will be lines that are very memorable and those will stick in your head the easiest. If your doing your own learning outside of AJATT like flash cards you will prboably be able to say stuff, like hello, how are you, my name is, what time is it, where do i go for __ (oh crap i dont know the word for X)
3.) If you have japanes friends you be very annoying and ask them words for everything "how do you say that, what about this, what about this?" If you dont have any japanese friends this is where the dictionary comes into play, you see a word you dont know? well look it up! theres one more word for your vocabulary =)
4.) you will most liekly be doing most of the studying on your own from kanji lessons or translationg manga or anime. By this time you really need to think about getting some friends again(especially japanese ones =P )
So thats enough about this, i wasnt planning on making such a big post. next post about myself and what i am to do =)
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