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Also, i have concluded (IMO) that kanji will always remain out of your grasp until you are fluent in spoken Japanese
Andocrates wrote:I don't think adults should learn kanji based on childrens school learning. Firstly, because Japanese isn't your native language you won't be able to "hear" the chinese reading. I'll ask a Japanese about a kanji and how they know it's the chinese reading and they often say "it sounds chinese."
"Most attempts to teach Japanese to foreigners start off with long lists of words to learn and endless drills practicing how to say things like "Suzuki-san, konnichi-wa." But with an appropriately nerdular mind, none of this is necessary. The nerd can simply study the formal Backus-Naur definition of the language, and then treat all the individual words to be learned the same way he would learn a long list of manifest constants #define'd in some C library. This article is a pioneering attempt to provide that Backus-Naur definition."
Without anyone getting too high on their gaijin nihongo horse, I'd like to hear some opinions about this article on Kuro5hin called "Japanese For Nerds". It bascially proposes approaching learning Japanese in a different way.
jim katta wrote: I'd like to hear some opinions about this article on Kuro5hin called "Japanese For Nerds". It bascially proposes approaching learning Japanese in a different way.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/26/175722/727
p.s. in my safari browser, the j-list ad 'completely' covers the left side of the site so I can't see any user names no matter where I scroll down to.
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