Report pastdestiny's Profile

Hi, I'm complexify from jebrim's fc

Hi, I'm complexify from jebrim's fc

Hi, I'm complexify from jebrim's fc

Your name sounds familiar. Do I know you from somewhere? It's on the tip of my tongue but I just can't quite remember....how frustrating.

Hi, I'm complexify from jebrim's fc

Your name sounds familiar. Do I know you from somewhere? It's on the tip of my tongue but I just can't quite remember....how frustrating.

Your name sounds familiar. Do I know you from somewhere? It's on the tip of my tongue but I just can't quite remember....how frustrating.

Hi, I'm complexify from jebrim's official clan chat

Hi, I'm complexify from jebrim's official clan chat

Hi, I'm complexify from jebrim's fc

Hi, I'm complexify from jebrim's official clan chat

1-2 months? Really? How much time did you put in every day? If I could learn 2000 kanji in only a couple months, that would be amazing. I thought it was a six month investment or something like that, which is why I've put it off for so long. Just being able to pronounce the kanji would help me a lot since there's a ton of words I know the pronunciation and meaning of but not the kanji.

And yeah, radicals are absolutely necessary to remember things. 姿 looks like a mess at first, but it's really just 次 and 女 squished together.

Well, light novels are generally aimed at a teenage audience and thus don't contain any extraordinarily complex or technical language. It's also far more dialogue heavy, which, from my experience with VNs, is a lot easier than the often metaphorical monologues. And the contemporary language is what you're experiencing in grammar guides, anime and so on, so I can't imagine anything would cause you trouble aside from some uncommon slang and kansai-ben. That's not to say that all LNs are super easy, though, because they aren't. There's Spice & Wolf which goes deep into its economics and Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita, which is written by Romeo Tanaka and basically incomprehensible to anyone who isn't fluent in the language. I wish I saved the sample I saw of it because it made me want to crawl in a corner and die.

Literature can be a century or two old and contain tons of archaic vocabulary and grammar that even Japanese people have trouble with. I suppose that can always be avoided by simply reading contemporary literature instead, but yeah.

I guess the kanji becomes easier the more radicals you learn? I've only memorised 300-400 individual kanji through reading, but there's often words I can recognise (like 結局 or 記憶喪失) based on their context and/or by knowing one or two of the kanji. I'd love to start grinding kanji eventually so I can move on from text hookers, but I don't know a good method for making them actually 'stick' in your memory. I could blow through 2000+ kanji but I'd be afraid of forgetting half of them.

It does depend on what you're aiming to do with the language. If you have absolutely no interest in visual novels, the JParser method simply does not work at all. And even for me, despite my primary motivation for learning Japanese being to read untranslated visual novels, there are still other media (video games, manga, novels) which will require me to rely on my own vocabulary. I'll have to do the kanji and vocabulary grinding at some point -- maybe a few months from now-- but at the moment I'm focusing primarily on improving my grammar through reading.

Novels are a very long-term goal, though. I mean, somebody who's been studying English for a year or so is simply not going to understand the complex vocabulary found in literature. Heck, even native English speakers have trouble with some books and they have a lexicon numbering in the five digits. It's even harder to manually search up words in Japanese since you have analyse it by radicals first rather than just punch a few letters into a dictionary site. I'm not trying to demotivate anyone, but I do think Anki decks lack the depth needed to prepare anyone for full-blown literature. I'd say that's more something in the 3-4 year range when someone acquires fluent knowledge, whereas (most) games and light novels only require a year or two of studying. It's a long ride either way, so you and me should both get comfortable.

Yeah, that's why I tend to avoid translations for things I'm really interested in. Generally, struggling with it in Japanese will provide a better experience than an excessively literal translation with awkward English (which applies for 90% of all VN and LN translations). I'd only consider translations for those two media if you aren't very interested in the story and/or it's actually handled by a competent localisation team rather than 15-year-olds who barely understand English.