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Ease of Use It is very straightforward. Content There are 30 practice tests that are supposed to be 10 min each. There are 2 3min mini practice tests between every 5 regular tests. Structure 1st part - choose word hiragana for from the kanji.2nd part - choose the right kanji for the hiragana.3rd part -… Continue reading 日本語パワードリルN2 文字 / 語彙 (Nihongo Power Drill N2 Vocabulary) Textbook Review
As all Japanese language learners know, kanji is sort of a never-ending battle to remember and retain. Thankfully, kanji is kind of logical and pattern-like especially when it comes to prefixes and suffixes (sometimes it’s not though too, which can be frustrating). Here are some ways suffixes can be read and understood easily. Adding 屋… Continue reading Kanji Reading Tips: Suffixes
Ease of Use: easy, pretty self-explanatory. Content: Very difficult IF you forget vocab/kanji easily, but a good way to test your vocab knowledge. Structure: It is broken into 30 tests/units and a two page 3 min review on katakana, keigo, idioms, set phrases, etc. after every 5 units. For each test: *Part 1: guess the… Continue reading Nihongo Power Drill: N3 Moji / Goi (日本語パワードリル: N3 文字 / 語彙) Textbook Review
Here’s a small reading tip that I actually learned fairly recently, but it makes a lot of sense. It’s called rendaku. 𝗘𝘅.𝟭 空 (そら): sky青い空 (あおぞら): blue sky秋空 (あきぞら): autumn skyThe そ -> ぞ sound when the (空) kanji is placed second.𝗘𝘅.𝟮 島 (しま): island小島(こじま): small island中島 (なかじま): Nakajima last name, island in a pond… Continue reading Another Tip to Learning to Read and Pronounce Kanji Faster
(From my personal learning experience) I think we all agree from an English-speaking background, kanji is hard. It’s REALLY hard. But I actually think the more you know, ironically the easier it gets to recognize the pronunciation at least. It’s more about patterns and memorizing the onyomi/kunyomi reading/sounds. (Disclaimer: for beginners, don’t worry too much… Continue reading How to Memorize and Read Kanji Faster
I think the first thing every beginner needs to do is CHANGE their mindset towards kanji. There seems to be a general fear or ugh feeling of starting out and not knowing everything. Well guess what, until you are N1 you probably won’t know all the common kanji and even then you might still not… Continue reading Demystifying Kanji ~ Beginner Kanji Learning Tips (and Where to Begin?)
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