Slogging Through The Kanji

Well, I’m currently slogging through Remembering the Kanji. Tonight I am hoping to add about 30-40 kanji into anki, right now I am up to kanji number 709. I’m in the middle of a 130 kanji chapter which is hard going because there are so many (sometimes it is easy to confuse them when you are just solidifying them in your mind), but easy because there are so many (and thus there is...

How Should You Structure Your Flash Card Deck?

In my post Divide and Conquer – a Vocab Post, Atreya asked the question: I am quite confused about the method by which I should structure my Anki Deck. By method I mean, how does one create the cards in Anki? Now, the short answer is, of course: Any way you want. But that doesn’t help those who may be a little lost in how to structure flash cards in their deck. The best way to...

The Handbook of Japanese Verbs – Book Review

The Handbook of Japanese Verbs A Kodansha Dictionary by Taeko Kamiya This is a fantastic book that I highly recommend for everyone learning the Japanese language. It is a dictionary so it is a great reference book. However, it explain things clearly so that understanding verbs and how they conjugate can be easily understood. Not only that, each section has exercises so that you can apply what...