Postby golyplot » Thu Jan 16, 2020 2:56 am
It occurred to me that this log might be misleading and/or boring to read, given that I intended to learn primarily by watching TV, but have spent most of my time to date on Wanikani. Of course, I always knew this was likely to happen - you have to build up a base before you can start watching media. So far I haven't found a good way to practice listening skills. I tried watching Peppa Pig in Japanese, but I couldn't even understand any of that. Of course, it's only been two weeks and Japanese is a notoriously difficult language, so it's not all that surprising either.
Anyway, I was messing around with the Lingodeer Android app today, and noticed the review section, which reads out sentences and then lets you try to guess the meaning. At the bottom are buttons for "Weak", "Good", and "Perfect". Presumably that's tied to some sort of SRS. I've never used Anki before, but I understand it operates similarly. Anyway, it seems like a decent way to practice listening skills, so I'll probably try that out some more.
I learned "ginko" from Lingodeer today. I remember back in the day, I read about a Ponzi scheme masquerading as a bank in SL named Ginko Financial. Now I know that ginko is literally Japanese for bank. It's cool to see connections like that.
Edit: Tonight, I watched ep4 of Sword Art Online (eng subs). I think I recognized the word 夕べ, a word I learned from Wanikani. Admittedly, I was only able to recognize it because "evening" showed up in the subtitles at the same time, but it's still the first time I managed to recognize a non trivial word (i.e. not 私, あなた, です, ありがとう, or stuff like that).
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