Baillehache PascalI've just reached another big milestone on my long learning road to Kanji mastering : perfect score on all quizz from levels 1 to 7 in one row (ie 350 reading/writing of sentences made of kanji picked at random among 1322 ones). 😀🥳
Years of daily effort and pain, but that makes these little positive moments in middle of constant bad news and troubles even more enjoyable.
I'll start studying level 8 from Monday. 💪
Also feeling quite motivated to attempt jlpt1 now...
Chris B.@baillehache_pascal Congratulations! Which quizzes if you don’t mind me asking? Kanji kentei maybe? My weak area is writing — my reading is quite good but I never actually handwrite them. Maybe that should be my next goal. It’s also a great way to get away from screens for a bit :)
@akande
Thanks! 🙂
I'm using the Nintendo DS なぞっておぼえる大人の漢字練習 software to study, then from the perspective of moving away from screens it's not great ! 😉
The quizz I'm talking about are fill-in-the-blank sentences. For each level, 25 of them have the reading given but one Kanji is missing and you have to write it, and in the 25 others all the Kanji are given but the reading of one Kanji is missing and you have to write it.
I do myself almost never write Kanji by hand except for 年賀状, but I find it enjoyable to learn both reading and writing anyway. Some day I also wish to come back to 書道 which I've started studying in the past. From that perspective learning the writing now is a good investment.
Do you have JLPT1? Do you think learning the reading only is sufficient to pass it ?
Thanks! 🙂
I'm using the Nintendo DS なぞっておぼえる大人の漢字練習 software to study, then from the perspective of moving away from screens it's not great ! 😉
The quizz I'm talking about are fill-in-the-blank sentences. For each level, 25 of them have the reading given but one Kanji is missing and you have to write it, and in the 25 others all the Kanji are given but the reading of one Kanji is missing and you have to write it.
I do myself almost never write Kanji by hand except for 年賀状, but I find it enjoyable to learn both reading and writing anyway. Some day I also wish to come back to 書道 which I've started studying in the past. From that perspective learning the writing now is a good investment.
Do you have JLPT1? Do you think learning the reading only is sufficient to pass it ?
@baillehache_pascal I remember hearing that the DS is a great tool for kanji study! Since they're discontinued I remember reading that it was recommended to apply some sort of jailbreak or similar, but I never ended up getting one.
I do have a Switch and the 漢検 app, but I find the Switch is a pretty huge device and lugging it around is a chore compared to a DS. I should look into it again!
@baillehache_pascal After trying a bunch of different approaches, I'm ashamed to say that the one that psychologically tricked me into completing the full set of 常用 and N1 kanji was WaniKani. I really don't like the Remember the Kanji mnemonic-based approach, and I really disliked some things about WaniKani, but it's hard to be too upset given that it did trick me into studying a couple hours per day.
@akande I didn't knew about WaniKani. I'm so used to the DS I can't think of changing to another method now. But if it breaks before I finished I'll consider WaniKani as a replacement. Thanks for the information.
@akande
Indeed the DS is really the perfect tool for that. It fits in the pocket and you can write as much as you want without worrying about ink and paper. The software is also well made and allows very efficient study.
Now I'm studying at home only, but in the past I was studying during my commute in the train. I even remember unknown seat neighbours encouraging or helping me occasionally 🙂
Mine is getting old and I often fear it would break before I finish all the Kanji...
Indeed the DS is really the perfect tool for that. It fits in the pocket and you can write as much as you want without worrying about ink and paper. The software is also well made and allows very efficient study.
Now I'm studying at home only, but in the past I was studying during my commute in the train. I even remember unknown seat neighbours encouraging or helping me occasionally 🙂
Mine is getting old and I often fear it would break before I finish all the Kanji...
@baillehache_pascal Maybe I'll see if I can find an old used on on Jimoty or Mercari. Plus older devices are fun.
I did the speed run to bootstrap the reading side, so would rather do the writing side more slowly and meticulously. I'd love to take the 漢字検定 tests one day.
I've actually never written any of the JLPT tests, but I have the 完全マスター series for N2 and N1. The practice test for N2 was fine for me, but N1 grammar I would need to do a bunch more work, for sure!