{"id":355,"date":"2019-12-11T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2019-12-11T10:19:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:19:39","slug":"%e7%a7%81%e3%81%af%e3%83%9e%e3%82%a4%e3%82%b1%e3%83%ab%e3%81%a7%e3%81%99%e3%80%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"\u79c1\u306f\u30de\u30a4\u30b1\u30eb\u3067\u3059\u3002"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So my Japanese studies continue with Duolingo<\/a>. I feel a little bit better about hiragana and katakana; I’m just a little slow at reading it. And using the app, I’m picking up some kanji. I need to go back learn more kanji, but right now, I’m working on sentence construction and telling time — it’s been a slow process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one app I’m using for learning kanji is a little annoying — it forces you to write correctly (which I’m fine with), but slight deviations can make you miss a character… the line detection is a little buggy. Like my angle might be a little off, so it considers it a fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which brings up an interesting point; my hand writing isn’t the best. I can write in cursive, but I’ve settled on something that’s about 1\/2 cursive and 1\/2 traditional letters — depends if one letter flows nicely into the next or not. There’s a little “art” when it comes to writing in Japanese with the more complex kanji, any my pragmatic writing style gets in the way sometimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other thing I’m realizing I need to spend more time on is listening… I watch anime in Japanese whilst reading subtitles, but it’s not until recently that I read a word in English and try to pick it out in Japanese. Like the other day, I heard \u884c\u304f<\/strong>, meaning “to go”, but picked up the conjugated form. Fun, but feel like it’s just the tip of the iceberg (\u6c37\u5c71<\/strong>). (heh, that’s ice mountain)<\/p>\n

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So my Japanese studies continue with Duolingo. I feel a little bit better about hiragana and katakana; I’m just a little slow at reading it. And using the app, I’m picking up some kanji. 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