/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>35598842
The character? It's 瀬田誠、the protagonist. He's a new countryside teacher after about four years of teaching at another school.

>>18544818
This was a really interesting thread to read through. Thanks, Anon.

>>18544841
>You certainly have to know main meaning(s) of kanjis but you can often make them clear just by learning a few words with it.

Yeah, I agree. I've found that when I focus on kanji study, but take even just a little time to look at a word or two, I have a high chance of remembering it. That's why, despite claims against it (Matt, fellow RTKers), and not having actually tried it yet, I think KKLC might make more sense in actual use.

For example, I'm in the middle of some reviews right now, and I came across the kanji 相. It included a few example words, including 相談. Playing around with some fun imagery and titles, I can remember 相談 on the spot, and write it out too, without really intending to. I haven't even learned 談 in RTK yet, but I can remember it clearly within the context of the word, and even understand the meaning of the kanji without stressing too heavily on mnemonics or word-play. To me, this is an amazing potential that isn't attended to by the strategies employed by the majority of RTK learners.

The fact that they push you to learn at least one word per kanji is an interesting concept too, since it keeps you consistent in doing this 'extra' study that doesn't really take too much effort to do, and ultimately, that means you could potentially have over 2k vocabulary terms to start out with. I can only imagine how useful it must be to have such a solid foundation as a beginner. I wouldn't be pussyfooting about digging into so many of my books and other media if I had that under my belt.

I think that a strategy using KKLC in this way, combined with a mining deck for content you encounter in media on your own (which would be studied in the exact same way), could be a very powerful method of Japanese language acquisition. My only issue is knowing how much to tackle a day with this method without it being too overwhelming in reviews. I wonder if I can study the same amount in KKLC as I try to do daily for RTK without it snowballing on me.

I've done okay with RTK, I like a lot of what I hear about KKLC. If anyone who has done KKLC is here (especially if you have done both KKLC and RTK), I would be very interested in hearing your input on my thoughts and statements in this post.

>>18468134
I always used mnemonics as well. I think I got similar failure rates as you, but I spent notably more time to get the same results, and my success became worse and worse over time.

I wonder if my mnemonic formation strategies were flawed. It was sometimes difficult for me to build my own mnemonics for some words, and any online resources like Koohii will have users citing RTK references/names, which will not translate for me in any way. Do you have any sort of mnemonic creation process(es), or elements that really help you build mnemonics? I imagine you do something related to building with radicals.

How long would you permit yourself to look at a word before failing it? Any discrepancy between selecting hard/good/easy?