There are a few words in the sentence that I don’t understand. 違う is one of them. So I would go to alc and get example sentences using that word. I pick sentences that are not too difficult, and which show the different usages of the word. The sentences that I pick are based on the ‘translation’ in English.

So I would add these sentences into khatzumemo:
違うと思うけど…(the answer section would have: “I don’t think so”)
違うよ！ (the answer section would have: “Wrong!”

Then I repeat this process. To me, this seems to be similar to the method you are using. I have been coming back to this website multiple times in over a year and I’m still not clear on your method.

Ofcourse, I make check the sentences over with my language partner to make sure they are something a native Japanese would say.

Do you see a flaw in my method?

This is what I have in my SRS:

Q:ここ渋谷では違うだろう。ここで見るほとんどの女の子はそれを履いているよ。
A:Not here in Shibuya. Most of the girls I see here are wearing them

All of my entries are like this. The answer section simply has the ‘equivalent’ English sentence and definitions IN JAPANESE for words I don’t know.

This is where I get confused. Does going monolingual equate to not having any English whatsoever in your SRS? For me, this is impossible because rikaichan is (J-E) thus I’m will be seeing some English.

Comment?

>find it really difficult to read any word in Japanese
I don’t see this as a problem…well, it isn’t for me, personally. I just see it as…a reflex, kind of. Like, today I was walking while doing my sentences, and saw the sign: “無人自動精米所” and I’m all “wu2ren2zi4dong4whaththe–I’m not in CHINA!!”, and realized it was むじんじどうせいまいしょ. I mean, if you have trouble remembering the J-readings, that is a problem. Otherwise, I say, all’s well that reads well.

See this post for more.
/how-to-learn-multiple-languages-without-getting-confused-the-laddering-method

Yokohama?! To the Chiba folks, Yokohama may seen pretty cool and sophisticated, but it’s not exactly Hiroo or other more upmarket locales, is it?

What a frickin’ 田舎者 !

Which leads me to wonder if, in spite of your utilization of an excellent language learning methodology, your 10,000 sentences consist not so much of standard Japanese as 田舎言葉 …

Okay, sorry, just joking 🙂 Sadly, a bit of tongue-in-cheek abuse is what passes for humour with me. Feel free to abuse me right back!

I used to live in Japan, and while making muuuuch more progress than the vast majority of westerners in learning Japanese (which is not saying much), I didn’t quite get to full fluency. I had all the determination, the effort, but not quite the right method – I didn’t have an SRS program then, and I certainly didn’t appreciate the huge importance of focusing so much on sentences rather than individual words.

But, thanks to your site/antimoon I believe I now have the tools/methodology to get me to ‘full’ fluency.

And I shall be burning my *huge* stock of Japanese language books – what a waste of money almost all of them were.

BTW – I notice that many of your ‘sentences’ shown as samples on this site consist not so much of complete sentences as clauses. Seriously, are clauses just as good as complete sentences for input to the SRS? Or should clauses be the exception, when I can’t find a ‘good’ sentence in my dictionaries?

>do I really have to finish heisig before starting to memorize the 10,000 sentences?
….YES!!! Sorry :(…But I bet you can run it like my wife did–just plough through 50 a day.

>I have been searching for a site that that has japanese movie transcripts. Any ideas?
Tell me about it! I want to know, too…I have a friend looking into it. I’ll let everyone know when she gets back to me. I have a feeling that bookstores may be the ticket. Which is sad, because it would be nice to have transcripts online where you could copy and paste them…If the worst comes to the worst I might start doing them myself, but it would take a loooooooooooooooong time…[pause] type [pause] type. I’m guessing 6 hours/movie.

The show タイガー＆ドラゴン (Tiger & Dragon) starring 長瀬智也(なが-せ-とも-や) has exact subs..and I mean EXACT. Down to “ああ、まあ、ていうかさ～” and all that good stuff. There are other shows, too. I will post them soon.

>Do you live in Tokyo?
Chiba. I had no idea it was so uncool before I came here. I didn’t know everyone lived in Yokohama.

One question. My Japanese is pretty good (but crap considering that I’ve lived here so long), but I can’t honestly say that I’ve mastered the Kanji a la heisig. I love your sentence idea, do I really have to finish heisig before starting to memorize the 10,000 sentences? Please say no.

I have been searching for a site that that has japanese movie transcripts. Any ideas?

Do you live in Tokyo? I owe you a beer.

Dan