Comments on: Learning Japanese: Do It Your Own Way http://www.zonjineko.com/3029-learning-japanese-do-it-your-own-way/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=learning-japanese-do-it-your-own-way a little bit of japan every day Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: zonjineko http://www.zonjineko.com/3029-learning-japanese-do-it-your-own-way/comment-page-1/#comment-1252 zonjineko Sun, 26 Dec 2010 07:02:32 +0000 http://www.zonjineko.com/?p=3029#comment-1252 <p>Thx James great to hear from you - I hope I can help with your Japanese in some small way. Definitely give RTK a go - it has really helped me.</p> Thx James great to hear from you – I hope I can help with your Japanese in some small way. Definitely give RTK a go – it has really helped me.

]]> By: James Elsey http://www.zonjineko.com/3029-learning-japanese-do-it-your-own-way/comment-page-1/#comment-1250 James Elsey Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:09:24 +0000 http://www.zonjineko.com/?p=3029#comment-1250 <p>Useful post, many thanks. Learning Japanese is hard but I think that if you set goals it is the best way of actually motivating yourself.</p> <p>First time I've heard of the RTK, might have to look that up. I'm only learning through curiousity, and will be at a very casual pace, but nice to have something to aim for.</p> <p>Good blog btw</p> Useful post, many thanks. Learning Japanese is hard but I think that if you set goals it is the best way of actually motivating yourself.

First time I’ve heard of the RTK, might have to look that up. I’m only learning through curiousity, and will be at a very casual pace, but nice to have something to aim for.

Good blog btw

]]> By: zonjineko http://www.zonjineko.com/3029-learning-japanese-do-it-your-own-way/comment-page-1/#comment-1094 zonjineko Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:14:22 +0000 http://www.zonjineko.com/?p=3029#comment-1094 <p>The sentence is a little obscured in the picture but reads as "君がいて私がいる" and I'm a little vague on the meaning but I think it means something like "You and I am here".</p> <p>So the teacher is saying you're not alone in your learning - she is there to guide and teach.</p> <p>I think that's it but I'm not 100% on that.</p> <p>BTW ga in this instance is not a particle - it is just part of the word in both instances in the sentence.</p> The sentence is a little obscured in the picture but reads as “君がいて私がいる” and I’m a little vague on the meaning but I think it means something like “You and I am here”.

So the teacher is saying you’re not alone in your learning – she is there to guide and teach.

I think that’s it but I’m not 100% on that.

BTW ga in this instance is not a particle – it is just part of the word in both instances in the sentence.

]]> By: nitro2k01 http://www.zonjineko.com/3029-learning-japanese-do-it-your-own-way/comment-page-1/#comment-1024 nitro2k01 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:26:38 +0000 http://www.zonjineko.com/?p=3029#comment-1024 <p>I'm sorry if I'm going slightly off-topic, but I want to ask something about the picture, and more specifically about the banner above the blackboard.</p> <p>I find myself being able to read the kana relatively effortlessly, but I don't get the kanji. As far as I can tell it ga ite and ga iru. Ga is obviously the particle, and ite and iru are verb endings as far as I can remember. But remind me, what do they mean? And what do the kanji mean?</p> <p>And consequently, what's the full reading of the sentence? I'm getting the feeling that it's a reminder about some grammatical rule.</p> I’m sorry if I’m going slightly off-topic, but I want to ask something about the picture, and more specifically about the banner above the blackboard.

I find myself being able to read the kana relatively effortlessly, but I don’t get the kanji. As far as I can tell it ga ite and ga iru. Ga is obviously the particle, and ite and iru are verb endings as far as I can remember. But remind me, what do they mean? And what do the kanji mean?

And consequently, what’s the full reading of the sentence? I’m getting the feeling that it’s a reminder about some grammatical rule.

]]> By: Tanya http://www.zonjineko.com/3029-learning-japanese-do-it-your-own-way/comment-page-1/#comment-938 Tanya Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:13:00 +0000 http://www.zonjineko.com/?p=3029#comment-938 <p>Thanks again for the encouragement in our studies! (Also I am fired up now knowing my intelligence is beyond questioning - lol!!)</p> Thanks again for the encouragement in our studies! (Also I am fired up now knowing my intelligence is beyond questioning – lol!!)

]]> By: zonjineko http://www.zonjineko.com/3029-learning-japanese-do-it-your-own-way/comment-page-1/#comment-932 zonjineko Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:28:22 +0000 http://www.zonjineko.com/?p=3029#comment-932 <p>Great to hear - the best way to learn is always whatever works best for you. Music has to be the most fun way to learn I think....especially guitar ^_^</p> Great to hear – the best way to learn is always whatever works best for you. Music has to be the most fun way to learn I think….especially guitar ^_^

]]> By: Lan http://www.zonjineko.com/3029-learning-japanese-do-it-your-own-way/comment-page-1/#comment-930 Lan Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:41:46 +0000 http://www.zonjineko.com/?p=3029#comment-930 <p>Good post!</p> <p>Thought I'd toss in my two bits re: RTK here - visual learners will benefit greatly from this method, as you say, but I think people who are more into logic patterns will also have good success. I found that for many of the kanji, the mnemonic story I used didn't really conjure up any visual image, but rather was simply a way to string together the elements in a sentence that made sense - sometimes a pretty weird kind of sense, granted!</p> <p>I just finished RTK1 about a month ago and wrote up my thoughts on it at http://bit.ly/9nW7ib/ . I also have two other posts there on what makes a good mnemonic, for anyone interested in starting this method.</p> Good post!

Thought I’d toss in my two bits re: RTK here – visual learners will benefit greatly from this method, as you say, but I think people who are more into logic patterns will also have good success. I found that for many of the kanji, the mnemonic story I used didn’t really conjure up any visual image, but rather was simply a way to string together the elements in a sentence that made sense – sometimes a pretty weird kind of sense, granted!

I just finished RTK1 about a month ago and wrote up my thoughts on it at http://bit.ly/9nW7ib/ . I also have two other posts there on what makes a good mnemonic, for anyone interested in starting this method.

]]> By: Katie http://www.zonjineko.com/3029-learning-japanese-do-it-your-own-way/comment-page-1/#comment-929 Katie Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:40:49 +0000 http://www.zonjineko.com/?p=3029#comment-929 <p>Definitely good timing for this newsletter! I'd hit a wall a week or so ago, but recently found myself able to (quietly) sing along to fair few Showa tunes with surprising verbal accuracy. Also, most of the vocab I looked up for in these songs has stuck the best, so I'm going to secretly dust off my guitar skills and try to learn more songs. This is an especially bizarre technique as I am famously tone deaf.</p> <p>And I'd like to mention that I am one of the 5am types! Maybe those of us in North America are just realigning our body clocks to Japanese time? ;)</p> Definitely good timing for this newsletter! I’d hit a wall a week or so ago, but recently found myself able to (quietly) sing along to fair few Showa tunes with surprising verbal accuracy. Also, most of the vocab I looked up for in these songs has stuck the best, so I’m going to secretly dust off my guitar skills and try to learn more songs. This is an especially bizarre technique as I am famously tone deaf.

And I’d like to mention that I am one of the 5am types! Maybe those of us in North America are just realigning our body clocks to Japanese time? ;)

]]> By: zonjineko http://www.zonjineko.com/3029-learning-japanese-do-it-your-own-way/comment-page-1/#comment-889 zonjineko Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:46:22 +0000 http://www.zonjineko.com/?p=3029#comment-889 <p>^_^ Thx heaps really appreciate all your great feedback. Best of luck with your studies as always.</p> ^_^ Thx heaps really appreciate all your great feedback. Best of luck with your studies as always.

]]> By: Tariq http://www.zonjineko.com/3029-learning-japanese-do-it-your-own-way/comment-page-1/#comment-887 Tariq Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:26:01 +0000 http://www.zonjineko.com/?p=3029#comment-887 <p>And yet ANOTHER great post! (Two thumbs up!),</p> <p>This post really put me at ease because I haven't really been taking any classes, I'm more of a self-study kind of guy. And now that I know that it doesn't matterhow I study, I WILL study harder.</p> <p>If you were a teacher I'm sure you'd be a pro & I'd be your #1 student! ^_^</p> And yet ANOTHER great post! (Two thumbs up!),

This post really put me at ease because I haven’t really been taking any classes, I’m more of a self-study kind of guy. And now that I know that it doesn’t matterhow I study, I WILL study harder.

If you were a teacher I’m sure you’d be a pro & I’d be your #1 student! ^_^

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