Kanji Weekly 01
Hi everyone! I will be starting starting a new series on ifigma.com called “Kanji Weekly“. In each Kanji Weekly, there will about 20 vocabularies and all we have to do is to remember 3 everyday. For each of the new characters we learn we can come up with a sentence to apply it. This way we can not only speed up the learning process but also learn some grammar at the same time. By the end of one year we would have learnt more than 1000 vocabulary characters!! I just finished my JLPT 4 but my Japanese is still weak. So for those who know Japanese, please do correct me if I make a mistake.
This series was inspired after I read Danny Choo’s Learning Japanese article. I realise that I need to use it daily to be able to master it. That is how I came to a conclusion of using Japanese this way ^^ This way I can blog and learn Japanese myself!!
For starters, we will be looking at a list of Hiragana and Katakana. They are some thing like alphabet in the Japanese Language so please memorise them!
Hiragana
Katakana
Since this is the 1st series, I will be learning basic vocabulary^^ For those advance learners please bear with it^^;;
Monday
1. 名詞
Reading: めいし
Meaning: Noun
2. アメリカ
Reading: アメリカ
Meaning: America
3. イギリス
Reading: イギリス
Meaning: England
Tueday
4. インドネシア
Reading: インドネシア
Meaning: Indonesia
5. 英語
Reading: えいご
Meaning: English
6. 鉛筆
Reading: えんぴつ
Meaning: Pencil
Wednesday
7. オートバイ
Reading: オートバイ
Meaning: Motocycle
8. 中国
Reading: ちゅうごく
Meaning: China
9. 男
Reading: おとこ
Meaning: Man
Thusday
10. 女
Reading: おんな
Meaning: Women
11. 学生
Reading: がくせい
Meaning: Student
12. 傘
Reading: かさ
Meaning: Umbrella
Firday
13. 学校
Reading: がっこう
Meaning: School
14. 鞄
Reading: かばん
Meaning: Bag
15. 銀行
Reading: ぎんこう
Meaning: Bank
Saturday
16. 消しゴム
Reading: けしゴム
Meaning: Eraser
17. 雑誌
Reading: ざっし
Meaning: Magazine
18. 辞書
Reading: じしょ
Meaning: Dictionary
Sunday
19. 自転車
Reading: じてんしゃ
Meaning: Bicycle
20. 数学
Reading: すうがく
Meaning: Mathematics
21. 先生
Reading: せんせい
Meaning: Teacher
This article mirrored on my blog
Let me start the ball rolling with this^^ Quite embarrassing because my Japanese is very weak and the example sentence I can think of is pretty lame^^;
Monday
アメリカとイギリスは名詞ですよ。知らなっかたのか。
America and England are nouns. Do you know that?
Tueday
ダーウィンさんはインドネシア人ですか。
Is Darwin an Indonesian?
私は鉛筆で英語の本を書きました。
I wrote a English book with a pencil.
Wednesday
オートバイの男中国人ですか。
Is the man on the motorcycle a Chinese?
Please correct me if I'm wrong ^^;
Correction^^;
Wednesday
オートバイの男は中国人ですか。
Is the man on the motorcycle a Chinese?
Forget to put は lols
Those are nice clear gyo.... I think I might keep those for reference. (＾ω＾)
Hahas thanks^^
I glad they helped o(^.^)o
I already know hiragana and katakana as well as a few kanji ^^ I am in no way fluent in Japanese. However, I am learning it and this will be of use to me. Keep posting these please ^^
No problem^^ I'll be posting it weekly
So do stay tuned for more Kanji Weekly^^
If you use Linux or any other Unix-like system try Kanatest to learn kana.
http://clayo.org/kanatest/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/kanatest/
Nice^^
I can use them to revise my Hiragana and Katakana ^^
I'm still at Hiragana and I know a bit from Katakana. ^^; More please.
No problem^^ I'll be posting it weekly here at figmure.fm and at my blog
So do stay tuned for more Kanji Weekly^^
This site really helped me learn kana:
http://www.realkana.com/
Taught myself hiragana in 4 days.
Cool! I'll try this one too.
Cool! I'm on board. b(^^)
nice tutorial though it can be improve with the inclusion of the pronunciation to the words.
As for pronunciation, you can use this online dictionary^^
They provide pronunciation and sometimes an example sentence o(^.^)o
Opps forgot to put the link ^^;
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C
Thursday
この学校の中で女の学生はいません、男の私立学校ですから。
There are no female students in this school because it's an Independent Boy's School.
今日は雨の日、でも私は傘持ていません。
Today's a rainy day but I do not have an umbrella.
Friday
この鞄の中でハルヒのマンガがあります。
There are Haruhi manga in this bag.
すみませんですが、銀行はどこですか。
Excuse me but may I know where the bank is?
Saturday
そのかわいハローキティ消しゴムはどこに買いましたか。
Where did you buy that cute Hello Kitty eraser?
この店は大きいです。アニメ雑誌やオタク辞書などがあります。
This store is big. It's has anime magazines, Otaku dictionaries and etc.
Sunday
車は自転車より速いです。
Cars are faster than bicycle.
私の数学先生は怖いです。
My Maths teacher is scary.
Please do correct me if I'm wrong^^
Kind of embarrassing make such lame sentences but that's the best I can do for now^^;
:D I've been looking for these charts! thank yous!!!!!!!! :3
You're welcome^^
I can read Hiragana and Katakana in a week, but not master them yet.
I found out this is really useful, really want example sentences. By the way, it is Tueday or Tuesday? :(