its doubled already!!!!!

I guess I have to settle for the waiting list.

m(_ _)m

However, the biggest issue I’ve ever had with children’s dictionaries is that I can’t really find one that I can use on my computer to copy/paste from. This means a LOT of manual entries, which are … time consuming. On the other hand, furigana and having pictures for some things are awesome.

For my iPad, I use this childrens dictionary www.monokakido.jp/iphone/reikaikokugo.html

For “adult” J-J I have several that are good including
www.monokakido.jp/iphone/daijirin.html and www.logovista.co.jp/LVERP/information/iPhone/product/f/6.html

For me, the transition to mono was a zillion times easier by starting out using a J-J dictionary made for grade school children. Easy definitions, easy sample sentences. Once I got used to that, I transitioned to a more adult-centric dictionary, but I still frequently go back to the kiddie jisho when needed.

Khatz could have been really cool and deleted my comment since he was gonna repost it later but why not make me look like a giant ass lol. It’s cool though I ended up going monolingual on my own, I read some mono articles on ajatt plus and khatz’s way just didn’t work for me. I think he’s right about going slow like “add 1 card, pat yourself on the back.” then you don’t even review for a day or two… REAL SLOW, but I don’t like it no… I disagree 100% with “look up words you already know” in fact, I think that is stupid.

What I did was just look up one or two words as I went along, new words, then… wait a minute I’m not just going to tell you for free… but I did it kind of backwards to what khatz tells you and I think my method works better because you don’t do hundreds or thousands of recursive look ups like khatz and jalup want you to do.. what a waste of time.

So I’m supposed to be done SS, but with Neutrino I am still an obese caterpillar.
I spend most days listening to a lot of Japanese @ research sites. Complicated, grad school level Japanese. And I have recently let myself regress from mono SNS cards to bilingual, because I was hating my mono cards… hating. And I wasn’t retaining anything, and I didn’t know what the definitions meant, and.. yeah.

And I am realizing that right now what I need to do is more systematically learn some of the basic terms I’ve never picked up. Like… nihongo 101 terms that I breezed by before.
Going by interesting passages rather than “words I NEED” wasn’t helping me get by in Nee-hon very well. So yeah… I started doing dictionary sentences bilingually, and find that I retain better that way. But I feel like maybe I’m slowing myself down. Whadyathink?

So yeah, dunno if this is for me (broke-jotai aside) or not. And maybe this wasn’t the right place to post this. Maybe I am trolling your blog. Time to leave my apartment, I think.

p.s. you’d better name drop me in your blog sometime. I am getting jealous of these other bitches. 😉 Kidding, kidding!