Re: ara?

ld;lkafdsjh wrote:
> Soren Svendsen wrote:
>> Curt Fischer wrote:
>>>> No matter how much I try to read this book, It won't get any
>>>> better. And it takes years to look up all those SOMETHINGs.
>>
>> At my present stage I find dictionarying up my texts fun. Im sure Ill
>> start hating it at some point but yes, the SOMETHINGs take huge
>> chunks of time away.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That certainly is one end of the problem. I think though that I
>>> have the opposite. My approach to studying kanji has been through
>>> flashcards based on very short sentence fragments. So often times
>>> I can pronounce the kanji in a word and even have some idea of the
>>> meaning. The probably is there are too many words in the text where
>>> I only have a partial idea of the meaning (even if I know the
>>> pronunciation) and thus my actual comprehension of the passage is
>>> much reduced.
>>
>> I have kanji flash cards too and I will agree with you that they seem
>> to give you a bit too fragmented learning. My teacer advice against
>> using flashcards to LEARN kanji, but use it as supplement to REMEMBER
>> kanji. It is much better to learn the kanji as you go. I tend to pick
>> easy text for children or adolescents, then write down the kanjis I
>> run across on paper together with other words I need to learn, and
>> then drill those. And then perhaps find the flashcards that matches
>> them. But the paperwork is probably where the real comprehension
>> comes from. And in my opinion, comprehension precedes memorization if
>> you want to be efficient about it.
>>
>>>
>>> I think that Paul and muchan were right. You've just got to read.
>>> If it's too hard now, pick out something (slightly) easier and just
>>> do it till it's easy.
>>
>> Thats what I do. I use computer games with light text content right
>> now and some article scans from a teen magazine I downloaded from the
>> intertron. And I do read it out aloud, too. I think that works best
>> for me. Reading inside makes me "lazy" as you described :)
>
> I stopped reading internally because I noticed my pronounciation was
> perfect in my head, but not even close when I spoke. I don't
> understand why, but I just had to accept that, that is how things
> are--at least for me.

I have always been amazed at how good my Japanese is when I'm dreaming, even
back when I had only 2 or 3 years of study...

Jeff

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