Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Learning Japanese radicals.

 Hello Everyone.

I haven't even touched kanji yet, but I do know some which I have see a lot of times by chance and some kanji are also radicals which is a plus when you learn the radicals first.

I am past half way learning all of the radicals and I would like to share how I got here.

To start off I read this article on tofugu which I wrote down in a notebook,diffrent from my diary notebook. Another useful article on tofugu is called how to guess a kanjis stroke order which personally made me feel more at ease, and it can help with guessing the radicals stroke order too.

www.textfugu.com/radical/1-2-stroke/one/

Because I am not a member I couldn't read past it but it gave me so much inspiration so I looked up radical lists.

infohost.nmt.edu/~armiller/japanese/kanjiradical.htm

This was the first one I found then I also found.

japanese.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.nuthatch.com/kanji/demo/strokes.html

So both websites are really useful I use opera on my phone so I can save the pages. Even when I have no internet I can still practice. Yayy

Now down to business....

So then I continued from where the article left off, I then started with the list and started by writing down the radical I don't know and the name of it beside it.



Then ill write a story about it and draw a picture beside it.



I do this 8 times a day, 8 for me is a nice number, its manageable. Its not about being fast but efficient.



I use a pen with different colours on it to make each one have a different colour section, this helps me separate my radicals and it doesn't look like too much so I can still read it.

Finally I put tests in the back of my book to help me practice, test on one side and answers on the other. Writing the test also helps me to retain the information.




Also to test myself a lot. I have a plastic sheet, it is transparent, I put paper in the middle and I do my tests on that, it is cheep and tacky but it gets the job done.





Thank you for reading, I am sorry this has been so long, I hope you have a good day.

ありがとう。
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