Tuesday, March 8, 2011

The best way to study Japanese vocabulary

Okay, so if your on this site, if your interested in Japanese culture, history, art, anime, all that stuff, you'll probably be wanting to learn Japanese. So I will also post interesting things I see in learning Japanese. This is the way that I stody Japanese vocabulary:

How did I learn a lot of the English words I know? By reading! I was a big reader when I was younger and most people found my vocabulary to be quite extensive (notice the big word) vocabulary. So, I thought, why wouldn't learning vocabulary in Japanese be any different? Don't worry, you don't need to a single thing about Japanese, you don't need to know Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji or ANY Japanese sentence structure.

Read this excerpt from Alice in Wonderland:

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice 'without pictures or conversation?'

Now replace  the English words with words you want to learn in Japanese:

Alice was beginning to get very Tsukareta of sitting by her Imōto on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the Hon her Imōto was reading, but it had no Shashin or conversations in it, 'and what is the use of a Hon,' thought Alice 'without Shashin or conversation?'

Now it is just like learning synonyms for words in English!

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