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steffishI used to put off studying kanji because it was too hard; when it came time to write essays I'd have to pick my topic according to which one I remembered the kanji I'd need to use in it.
Now I've gone insane and think kanji are awesome. I even have a favourite radical; it's itohen 糸. It's just so fun to write! i can use it to write green 緑, and purple 紫. and ato 後 is similar too. and also, kizuna 絆! my current obssession song. surely there's lots more too, i can't wait to learn them.
I have a huge pile of kanji flashcards I need to learn before class starts. I used a bunch of different criteria to pick them out, and though there's a fair bit of crossover it still ended up being a lot.
First I took all the kanji that Japanese kids learn in 1st grade, then added the kanji for JLPT level 4. Then I added all the ones I should have learnt in 7th form and the ones that I'm pretty sure I was meant to learn even before that. And last week I picked up the kanji list for the Japanese paper I should have done this semester and added those, plus a few others that I liked because they looked awesome or had a cool meaning XD
...Actually, 'having a cool meaning' is one of the main criteria for how well I learn a kanji. Bonus points if it's fannish too. I mean, I learnt 絆 pretty damn quickly just by repeatedly writing out the last line in the song while at work. Seriously, every pair of gloves I threw out that day had 「あの時のあの場所消えないこの絆」 written on them :/ I've done the same thing with all kinds of things, like Tezuka's name. And buchou, which I think is the only actually useful word I've learnt by this method. Ah well, even if it's a rather random selection, any learning isn't a waste ^__^
Now I've gone insane and think kanji are awesome. I even have a favourite radical; it's itohen 糸. It's just so fun to write! i can use it to write green 緑, and purple 紫. and ato 後 is similar too. and also, kizuna 絆! my current obssession song. surely there's lots more too, i can't wait to learn them.
I have a huge pile of kanji flashcards I need to learn before class starts. I used a bunch of different criteria to pick them out, and though there's a fair bit of crossover it still ended up being a lot.
First I took all the kanji that Japanese kids learn in 1st grade, then added the kanji for JLPT level 4. Then I added all the ones I should have learnt in 7th form and the ones that I'm pretty sure I was meant to learn even before that. And last week I picked up the kanji list for the Japanese paper I should have done this semester and added those, plus a few others that I liked because they looked awesome or had a cool meaning XD
...Actually, 'having a cool meaning' is one of the main criteria for how well I learn a kanji. Bonus points if it's fannish too. I mean, I learnt 絆 pretty damn quickly just by repeatedly writing out the last line in the song while at work. Seriously, every pair of gloves I threw out that day had 「あの時のあの場所消えないこの絆」 written on them :/ I've done the same thing with all kinds of things, like Tezuka's name. And buchou, which I think is the only actually useful word I've learnt by this method. Ah well, even if it's a rather random selection, any learning isn't a waste ^__^
