Tuesday, December 2, 2008

4th Deck

This deck includes all major vocabulary from "Let's Learn Japanese Basic 1: Yan and the japanese people".

Key:
3875d71df9c12871

Saturday, November 29, 2008

UPDATE

Hi everybody!!

I haven't been posting anything because i got sick. I'm still sick, but now i'm able to continue :-D

By now i've already studied both hiragana and katakana and i'm maintaining that knowledge reviewing through flashcards every single day.
I'm starting with Kanji. My plans are learning kanji at the same time i learn the language, because there are lots of kanji to memorize.

There are several books about kanji, but i selected the ones i believe are best suitable for me.

The first book i read, was more to get an insight of where did the chinese characters come from. The second book is the book that i'm really studying the Kanji. And the beauty of it is that there is a website where you can study online the kanji (online flashcards), and you can interact with others that are also studying through this book.

DOWNLOADS:

"Read Japanese Today":
http://rapidshare.com/files/168396790/Read_Japanese_Today.pdf

"Remember The Kanji Vol.1" from Heisig:
http://rapidshare.com/files/168394229/remkanji1.rar

"Remember The Kanji Vol.2" from Heisig:
http://rapidshare.com/files/168395458/remkanji2.rar

"Remember The Kanji Vol.3" from Heisig:
http://rapidshare.com/files/168395855/remkanji3.rar

These are printable flashcards for the first 2042 kanij of "Remember the Kanji" from Heisig (Volume 1):
http://rapidshare.com/files/168392672/RememberingTheKanji0001-2042.rar

A website for users of "Remember the Kanji". It's a must:
http://kanji.koohii.com/

Friday, November 21, 2008

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Hiragana Books

Know i know how to read hiragana. What's the best way to stick it into your mind forever? To use it. Because i still don't know Kanji, the only books i can read are children books (only have hiragana).

I still don't know how to translate (i need the dictionary :-p) but that's not my concern yet. Only to practice reading. Still, later i'll be posting a translation of these books.

Here are children books to practice:

http://rapidshare.com/files/165170521/01_Issunboushi.pdf

http://rapidshare.com/files/166946874/02_Urashimatarou.pdf

http://rapidshare.com/files/166947055/03_OmusubiKororin.pdf

http://rapidshare.com/files/166947227/04_Kaguyahime.pdf

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

To memorize Hiragana

To learn hiragana, you basically have to memorize and then start reading children books because they are written solely in hiragana.

Sometime ago i memorized all the hiragana, but in the meantime i forgot almost everything. But using the book "Remembering the kana: The hiragana" from James W. Heisig it's not only easier to memorize, it's also faster, because it uses mnemonics.
During this post, in just 1 day, i already memorized effectively 2/3 of the hiragana. And decided to leave the rest for the next day so that it will be really stucked on my memory and not confusing anything. I also tested by now , all the hiragana i studied, using anki. Tomorrow i'll do the same.

I'm going to leave you a download link to this book, but i hope you buy it, because it's really cheap (about $15 US/15€) and it really works. The second part of this book is katakana

DOWNLOAD: http://rapidshare.com/files/164826967/Remembering_The_Kana_-_Part_1_-_Hiragana.pdf

3rd Deck

Now i'm learning hiragana. I use a very good book (which i'm going to show you later) and then to test if i really memorized them, use anki software to produce flashcards.
Don't you ever forget to use anki everyday. :-p

Key:
4a05e31dacf6f8b0

Sunday, November 16, 2008

2nd Deck

My second deck's Key: 95a6691da5e5d435