fellow created his own kanji learning "book" for common kanji
http://www.hellodamage.com/kanjidicks/main.htm
"So far, all kanji books have been written by people that are language experts and professors. It turns out that professors are the people least-qualified to teach kanji. (well, second only to Japanese people). Here's why: By the time some dude gets a PhD. In Japanese, he has totally forgotten the basic problems that drive students crazy. He's all into the 2,000 year old etymological roots of “cow” (牛)instead of remembering that ‘cow' looks exactly like ‘noon'(午) and what a pain that is."
-Quote from the site and a great point
- something that boosts the credibility of my efforts given I am NOT a fluent Japanese speaker
he combines the student prospective, with logic, mnemonics, humor, and bad language...
"Don't be fooled by my hype, though: even with my awesome system of jaw-dropping logic, kanji is still a motherfucker."
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