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)
Good luck Jamie! Saw your comment over at AJATT. I've been doing AJATT for about a year and a half now, plus a year abroad in Japan before that. I can confidently say I'm fluent now. :) So, just know that this method works great if you stick with it!
ReplyDeleteA quick comment about the Japanese in this post. Remember, the point of AJATT, especially at the beginning, is to emphasize input. Don't try to force yourself to say/write anything quite yet. As Khatz says, it's not a creative process. First, "sayonara" is written in Japanese as either さようなら or さよなら. Second, さよならはいみ is not a phrase I've ever heard in Japanese. Remember, Japanese is not English and you can't just copy/paste direct translate things between the two. さよなら by itself will suffice, but has a permanant connotation so maybe a じゃね or またね would be better.
Enjoy the journey! :)