Monday, July 3, 2023

20230703: Kana practice, Kanji, a rethink of approach strategy & More immersion with Kimetsu no Yaiba

Day 4!

Kana practice

I found out about this website that is actually ultra-fast which would help with hiragana & katakana learning: https://itazuraneko.neocities.org/learn/kana

It basically just churns out characters after characters, and I got to choose which characters options that I can do, so my strategy has now shifted from doing just random all over the place to just finish a row at a time for Katakana. Hiragana is pretty much nailed, albeit when I try to read NHK news I'm like crawling, but that's pretty much expected for learning new language! 

Kanji

Approached 75 kanji! List of characters below 

With the help of spaced-repetition I hope that I can retain more as time goes by. The idea is that it is totally fine to forget, and forgetting is important to learn! 

Rethink of approach strategy

With no sign of the actual Minnanonihongo textbook in sight, I've decided to change my approach from learning grammar by the book, to learn grammar from this lady (that weirdly looks like an AI robot) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSvH9vH60Ig&list=PLg9uYxuZf8x_A-vcqqyOFZu06WlhnypWj

She actually does a fantastic job explaining the grammar using the train system euphemism which I've never seen anywhere else, but it just makes sense! Let's do 3 videos per day, and continue to take notes to move along. Notes for today: 


Main car & Engine is linked with が
Engine ends with だ or です.

Main car can also be invisible, that's fine.

Object is with を
は is not part of the core sentence. It stands for [as for] independently. 

Immersion with Kimetsu no Yaiba

Looking forward to this the whole day lol. Basically: watch an ep with EN sub, watch it again with no sub, only picking up words here and there with the context provided in the previous watch session. Continue to do this for YT videos as part of immersion. 

Slow steps! But everytime I think of surprising my Tokyo friends, it made me even more excited, so I hope that I can continue to stay positive! 


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