Comments on: AJATT SilverSpoon Countdown Heats Up…

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 01 May 2011 10:31:21 +0000

I’m pretty sure it’s sold out for now. I was going to sign up but then it sold out.

By: David the Philomath

David the Philomath — Sun, 01 May 2011 00:22:42 +0000

Recognition always comes before recollection. It’s a universal rule. Quite often you can understand a language better than you can produce it. You can read better than you can write. This stands to be true in your native language. Passive knowledge is always larger active. It’s the way it goes. Relax. Take it easy. You’re doing ok 😉

By: ライトニング

ライトニング — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:44:17 +0000

Where is the silverspoon?

By: ブライアン

ブライアン — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:15:16 +0000

Recollection or understanding always always ALWAYS comes before production. You will understand more kanji than you can write. You will understand more words than you can say.

And frankly, that’s fine. What you need for Japanese is to understand the meaning of characters. You don’t necessarily need to recall them from English keywords. (Japanese readings? Yes: べんきょう⇒勉強. But not, say, “strong”⇒強.)

By: Rout

Rout — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:05:56 +0000

Heh, it’s exactly the other way around for me – I can usually recall the kanji when I see the English keyword but I often forget the keyword when looking at a kanji. I sometimes remember the story but not the keyword. Still, I figure it’s okay, as long as I can recognize the kanji, it’ll serve well enough as a foundation when I start learning how to read Japanese.

By: ダンちゃん

ダンちゃん — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:35:25 +0000

Mmmm.　トーストに納豆を掛ける。。。大ファンだゼ！！

By: Romuś

Romuś — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 07:16:00 +0000

I think it’s a good thing, becouse you are going to go Alljapaneseallthetime, so English is prohibited, mildly speaking. Recently I found go-and-put-keyword-in-long-term-memory-through-an-SRS attitude wrong. You don’t need ‘卸- wholesale’ in your head. You need to feel it, when you can use this kanji. So when you go on with monodics, forgetting the English keywords won’t be a bother.
Input before output. Even if you can’t recall kanji from keyword now, you will probably can eventually, when you expose yourself to a certain kanji othen enough.

By: jumbocrunk

jumbocrunk — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 06:18:28 +0000

There is no problem. Don’t worry about every little thing. Just get on with things and the language take its course.

By: フィル

フィル — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:48:41 +0000

Depends on how you have your cards set up. From my personal kanji roller coaster ride, if your kanji deck is set up with the kanji in the ‘question’ field, it builds your recognition of the kanji’s meaning. At least, that’s what happened with me. I could see them where ever and tell you what they meant, but couldn’t randomly write them.

With the kanji in the ‘answer’ field, well… I’m still working on this one, but it seems like if I just think about the keyword, I can write them (if they are not too new and I remember the story). This also depends on how many times the kanji has been studied.

This is the difference between the Lazy Kanji Mod and the ‘Regular’ way in my opinion. But I could be wrong though (or weird or both).

By: ライトニング

ライトニング — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 04:10:57 +0000

Why is it that with my SRS reps, it has gotten harder for me to get kanji from english keyword, yet i can easily recall meaning if i see a kanji. It worries me.