diminishing returns vs. maintenance or starting a new language

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Re: diminishing returns vs. maintenance or starting a new language

Postby brilliantyears » Sun Sep 01, 2019 9:41 pm

leosmith wrote:Some good advice in this thread already.
Cartouche wrote:At this point, you should probably decide if you want to progress to a higher level. If you do, you'll need to read a lot. And you won't be able to read at a higher level unless you learn a lot more kanji.

While this is true, a couple things.

1) There was a big experiment done in China that showed a lot of students were able to progress in reading Chinese characters faster by reading with pinyin above them. I personally don't really like that method; I feel it's sort of like having the question and answer on the same side of a flashcard. But:
2) There are free software programs like LT (hosted - I am the owner), and LWT (desk top) and paid programs like LingQ(hosted) and Readlang (hosted) where you can mouse-over kanji to get a quick definition on demand only, color code known/unknown/learning words, export word lists to flashcard programs, etc.


(There’s also Rikaichan for Chrome - I swear by it :) )
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Re: diminishing returns vs. maintenance or starting a new language

Postby Cartouche » Mon Sep 02, 2019 7:40 pm

I use Yomichan with animelon.com, but I will check out the others as well. I do use LingQ for French and Italian podcasts, but I find the Japanese content there a little hit-or-miss.

Thanks!
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