Very insightful video. I've just come back from Japan and just started on Heisigs RTK (I'm about 300 in). I've been reading the AJAAT website for a few months now and I'm really keen to start sentence mining and all that. It's really good to hear someone else talk about the method and how it has worked for them. Thankyou!
Also, I tried the AJATT method but I wasn't fluent enough for it to be viable, I think that you need to fairly proficient in Japanese for it to be effective.
I used the remember the heisig kanji books but I found that they didn't help me so much. I could understand it, but with no readings I was forgetting them because I had no context.
I find that using anki (a flash card program) really helped me with the kanji. :)
@shibuyakun Glad you're enjoying my videos. :) I don't know if I'd be able to make any useful videos about Japanese itself, though. If you want to become a CIR, you basically have to know Japanese (near) fluently, and talking about a kanji or some vocab would just be a drop in the bucket. Like I talked about in this vlog, I think the best thing you can do is start "getting dirty" and immersing yourself in Japanese. Let me know if you need any help getting started!
Sentence mining is something I'm going to have to try out. As for Kanji I tend to be able to read much better than I can write which my friends tell me is weird, but I digress.
In any case another useful way to use Anki that I didn't know about.
@TheJelloEmperor I think it makes perfect sense that you can read better than you can write. This is true in your native language as well; all of us read and understand The Great Gatsby, for example, but very few of us can write it. It goes along with the premise of AJATT too, which is to keep yourself immersed in Japanese. The focus is on input, not output. Output is a consequence of input.
Glad you're going to try out sentence mining! It's worked wonders for me.
How long did it take you to be fairly fluent? I mean fluent enough for CIR?
idontgivafcuk 4 months ago
AJATT/Heisig FTW O_*
DrkVrtx 1 year ago
Very insightful video. I've just come back from Japan and just started on Heisigs RTK (I'm about 300 in). I've been reading the AJAAT website for a few months now and I'm really keen to start sentence mining and all that. It's really good to hear someone else talk about the method and how it has worked for them. Thankyou!
josh4390 1 year ago
Also, I tried the AJATT method but I wasn't fluent enough for it to be viable, I think that you need to fairly proficient in Japanese for it to be effective.
afronathan 1 year ago
I used the remember the heisig kanji books but I found that they didn't help me so much. I could understand it, but with no readings I was forgetting them because I had no context.
I find that using anki (a flash card program) really helped me with the kanji. :)
Thanks for the vid
afronathan 1 year ago
It would be cool if you could make vlogs once you get to Japan about useful vocab and Kanji etc.. for us future CIRs applicants.
Awesome vlogs btw..
shibuyakun 1 year ago
@shibuyakun Glad you're enjoying my videos. :) I don't know if I'd be able to make any useful videos about Japanese itself, though. If you want to become a CIR, you basically have to know Japanese (near) fluently, and talking about a kanji or some vocab would just be a drop in the bucket. Like I talked about in this vlog, I think the best thing you can do is start "getting dirty" and immersing yourself in Japanese. Let me know if you need any help getting started!
JoeInJapan86 1 year ago
it's a good thing this is not a requirement for ALTs... they asked me 3 questions in japanese at the interview... i understood one of them!
hoosierhana 1 year ago
@hoosierhana Don't worry, you'll learn plenty of Japanese once we get there, whether you like it or not! ;)
JoeInJapan86 1 year ago
Sentence mining is something I'm going to have to try out. As for Kanji I tend to be able to read much better than I can write which my friends tell me is weird, but I digress.
In any case another useful way to use Anki that I didn't know about.
TheJelloEmperor 1 year ago
@TheJelloEmperor I think it makes perfect sense that you can read better than you can write. This is true in your native language as well; all of us read and understand The Great Gatsby, for example, but very few of us can write it. It goes along with the premise of AJATT too, which is to keep yourself immersed in Japanese. The focus is on input, not output. Output is a consequence of input.
Glad you're going to try out sentence mining! It's worked wonders for me.
JoeInJapan86 1 year ago