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  • #13348

    mkiku
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    I just wanted to say hello. I just joined textfugu tonight. The main reason why I want to learn Japanese is so I can communicate better with Japanese-speaking parents at my daughter’s school. I hope this site helps me with that!

    #13356

    Hashi
    Member

    Welcome to TextFugu!

    #13358

    Kaona
    Member

    Welcome to TextFugu, mkiku!

    Do you mind telling us a little bit more about yourself? For example, who you are, your interests/hobbies, what interests you about Japan (if you have any interests about Japan)?

    Good luck learning Japanese.

    #13361

    budonoseito
    Member

    Welcome. A lot of new members recently. I hope it continues to grow and stays active.

    #24046

    Kroentschies
    Member

    Sorry, if I wrote not clearly enough.

    I’m looking at the peoples own activities of Entries Written and Corrections Made.
    If there are much more entries written than corrections made, I probably won’t correct the text.

    EDIT: Just got rid of some bold in the last sentence

    #24051

    Quewin
    Member

    @Kroentschies

    A mysteriously kidnapped message? :p

    #24157

    Mark
    Member

    Yeah, that’s fair anyway, I normally only take personal notes, but since I requested this its only fair I make a contribution!
    1. Since. Used by putting it after a te from verb.
    2. Something like must do before going?
    3. I don’t really know if I’m honest, Mark W’s attempt seems fairly reasonable to me.
    4. わけじゃない: That is not the meaning わけない:There is no reason
    5. Something along the lines of 私は走してよかったよ。

    This is actually really good thanks missing! I am nearly sure I’ve made some mistakes but I enjoyed it! The length is much better!

    #24168

    missingno15
    Member


    Lol you’re welcome.

    Cept your post has a mind of its own

    #24398

    JarHead
    Member

    Hello, I am new too.

    Hope we both learn alot :)

    #24504

    ロブ
    Member

    Welcome!

    Welcome

    #24524

    ルイ
    Member

    I am confused.
    Ohai
    O hai.

    EDIT: This really wasn’t supposed to happen…

    #24563

    Lol then Mark’s post appears here? That is so random 0.o

    #24581

    Was supposed to be a video embed here… which was also supposed to be in the video testing thread. Accidentally clicked the button before I selected the right thread.

    #31949

    lowercasej
    Member

    If you’re a beginner, I’m not sure you would want to use RTK. I’m not too familiar with it, but I believe you learn kanji starting with lowest strokes and move up. That means you’re going to learn low-stroke kanji that you probably won’t be using in every-day language. I mean, how often are you going to use 硝 in daily conversation? Unless that word has something to do with your job, you’re probably not going to use it. Yet, that’s the 115th kanji you’ll learn with RTK.

    Personally, my primary goal is to communicate with people, secondary is learning kanji. So I study the iKnow Core series and pick up kanji along the way. According to this, only 1648 unique kanji are in the Core 6000. There’s over 3000 in RTK, that means you’re learning over 1000 kanji more than you need to start talking with people.

    If you wanted to focus on Kanji, I would probably pick that list of 1648 from the iKnow series and learn it the Textfugu way.

    However, what is really helping me a lot with kanji (and I wish I would’ve found it earlier) is Tagaini Jisho. When studying in iKnow, I’ll pause and look up the kanji and then break them down into their radicals, etc.

    *edit, updated RTK kanji as previous example was inaccurate.
    *more edit…..somehow this post teleported to a completely different thread

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