Wow, WP has new dashboard layout, so nice.
お久しぶりです。

It’s been awhile since I browse through RTK’s forum. Read some of people’s posts about their progress, and some new tools. There’re really lots of ways to learn Japanese (or other languages) and internet and computers really made it easy. Like… I wish it was like this when I first started studying Japanese and stick on one method. There’re Heisig, AJATT, iKnow, Anki, manga/novel, anime/TVs, KO2001, or learn from JLPT way… I can never choose one thing. When I choose one thing, I’d wonder about the other options.

But I try to stick on one method now. I myself is still on quarter-ish going through KO2001. I add 50 sentences everyday. So far it’s pretty good. Though I finished Heisig’s, I didn’t review it regularly afterwards. So I might recognizes the kanji, but I can’t remember the meaning. orz So I was hoping to remember back those kanji by doing KO2001, since it sorts out the sentences by the most common kanji. I haven’t reached the hard kanjis, but I’ll get there eventually. All 2001 of them.

iKnow seems pretty promising. And since it know has the intermediate stuff, it’s more suited for my need. I am tempted to use it. But, if I use it, then I’d have too many reviews with KO2001. So I decided not to. It’s a good one, but I think it’s easier to focus more on the kanji itself.

Another one that I want to try is remembering kanji readings. But I’m afraid if it’ll ended up like what I did to Heisig’s, partly forgotten. But maybe I can try it, just for fun.

Then, there’s the 10000 sentences with whatever sentences you want. It does sound fun. But the bad thing is that it takes lots of my time. I’m not a complete beginner, so I do want to choose good sentences. And to keep up with the daily target, it’s quite tough, and requires more discipline. That’s why I stick with KO2001, since it already has the proper list already.

Then there’s a new deck made by a wonderful someone, sentences from an anime movie. I’m really curious with it. But not sure if I want to use it. Maybe if I had this 4 years ago, I’d just go with it. But now, I really want to make sure I cover most of the important kanji and common words, asap, since I’m leaving to Japan soon. And then, when you reach a certain level, you’d really won’t bother looking up on dictionaries, except for some words. That’s what I felt when I learn English, too. I think I mostly read novels that I can reach my current fluency with English. Though of course I can’t say I’m fluent at all. But it’s be awesome if I can have my Japanese fluency as high as my English’s.

Oh well. For now, KO2001. Along the way and after that, read and listen lots of Japanese, I guess. The method really sounds fun but I don’t have the confidence I’d be discipline in adding and reviewing words I don’t know from the readings though, haha =d

Enough of babblings and back to finishing up today’s reviewing.

[edit] Eeep. I just realized that KO2001 only has sentences until 1110, that means I’m almost halfway already. Hmm… for the rest of the 1000-ish kanji…? *shrugs* Maybe I can try the new anki deck or DS or iKnow… Read Haruhi? hmm. こまったな。どっちにしようかな。

つづく