The 軽い in 口が軽い is more like 軽率, 軽はずみ, 軽々しい, right? One of my J-E dictionaries says 口が軽い means "talkative" but one of my E-J dictionaries says "talkative" is お喋りな。お喋りな is different from 口が軽い。
I'm actually finding that just re-reading the same manga/book etc over again can be more effective than using flashcards, cause it forces you to look at it in context
I find that I do my flashcards, and if I ever see one of my words in an actual context, it's eaiser to recall and after that point it's pretty much rock solid in my mind
If I hadn't seen them in flashcards, I would look it up, go "oh, ok" then keep reading and most of the time forget it
@Flaw Hmm? What's the difference between haste and speed?
I remember not knowing any word but くすり, and I was watching a drama with my little host sister, and the mom on the drama was an addict, and I asked if what she had was くすり. She said yes, but I had a feeling there was a better word for it
That LearnJapanese subreddit is interesting... if you want to see what JLU could be like if we allowed every learning/resource/tech-support question, it's a great example
so, for each new kanji, the process is: Look at the kanji, examine the keyword, look it up on jisho.org (you can search by Heisig# there), look at all words containing that kanji, filter by common... verify that the keyword makes sense for some of them... proceed with the method
I'm currently using KanjiBox to give me a study set, and a general test. It groups kanji by JLPT level, which is good and bad. The downside is, there isn't much of an example system, so I can't learn vocabulary in a lot of contexts.
And also it pulls the definitions from Jim Breen's dictionary, which means all the uncommon readings are listed first. :/
Do you know a good digital flashcard program?
Like if I run across some words I have to look up as I'm reading something?
And want to remember them later (because they might show up later in the story)
When I was doing it before, I used Heisigs... then when I picked up Japanese again, I discovered that many of those mnemonics were "less than perfect", which has caused me to take up the process I describe above
I change... probably 10% or so of his mnemonics this time around
or even... just defining "doing flashcards" as studying Japanese... that's sortof true, but it's really only handling the "solidify my vocabulary" part
I took some classes years ago, and then did a 6-7 month stay in Japan... then stopped studying entirely
Several years later I picked it up again, along with a few other decent hobbies... then started working at a large company with a fair sized Japanese branch
Since then I've been sent over there for short term business trips, and am hoping for a 2 year assignment in Yokohama... probably next summer
The odd gap there has produced some pretty funny durations on cards... I need to go through my anki deck and cull any cards that won't expire for another 10 years.
Frankly... if I still need a flashcard to check if I know what 電車 is... I've probably given up the language
but, when I'm not going to see it for 10 years, how much do I really care about that card?
I used to have a couple of decks... folded them all into one about a year ago
Note that I did RTK the first time with physical cards... and now do it only on kanji.koohii.com, if I was doing RTK in anki, I'd definitely put that in it's own deck
But I study kanji in a book... and then add common words that involve that kanji and other kanji that I know to anki (unless the meaning/reading is so obvious that I can't imagine getting it wrong)
One of the best things ever brought to us by conniving businessmen :)
The story is that someone was trying to introduce vodka to the american market. Someone else was trying to sell copper mugs, and someone else was trying to sell... probably the ginger beer or whatever. Anyways, the three of them got together to promote their products, and the "Moscow Mule" was one of the major things they were advertising. (traditionally served in a large copper mug, of course)
Same for me, but it was Latin! But a book called "The Fight for English" suggested that people tried to impose on English rules that didn't belong to it, that instead belonged to other languages. It made me question a lot of grammar rules I had grown up with. http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Fight-English-language-pundits/dp/019920764X
I'm currently learning the kanji by typing a word using romaji into my IME (google translate in my case), seeing what the first option is, and checking if that word has the same meaning as what I was trying to type in. Talk about "write only code"! I'm not sure if it's a good or bad way to learn. Depends on whether I want to be able to write kanji by hand at some stage, and how much Japanese I want to learn, I guess.
@Flaw today's lesson talked about -たい form today. It triggered memories of an episode of 古代少女ドグちゃん where ドグちゃん is saying 行きたい！行きたい！
that I had watched a few days before.
@Chocolate I used to wonder whether Kyoto is a major city, or mainly a tourist destination. Finding out that it's the former has made me more likely to visit it. A place just being a tourist destination would make it feel less "real" to me.
