Re: ara?



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.

Rykk 

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    ... Ill start hating it at some point but yes, the SOMETHINGs take huge chunks of time away. ... flashcards based on very short sentence fragments. ... I can pronounce the kanji in a word and even have some idea of the ... pronunciation) and thus my actual comprehension of the passage is ...
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    ... My approach to studying kanji has been through ... >>> I only have a partial idea of the meaning (even if I know the ... >> using flashcards to LEARN kanji, but use it as supplement to REMEMBER ... But the paperwork is probably where the real comprehension ...
    (sci.lang.japan)
  • Re: ara?
    ... > the kanji in a word and even have some idea of the meaning. ... flashcards to LEARN kanji, but use it as supplement to REMEMBER kanji. ... paperwork is probably where the real comprehension comes from. ...
    (sci.lang.japan)