Session:Japanese (Reading) Beginner to Expert (Encore)

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Description An overview to writing and studying Japanese from zero to native comprehension.
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Type Talk
Kids session No
Keyword(s) art
Tags Japanese, Language, Study, Asia, Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, Write, Read
Processing assembly Assembly:Curry Club Augsburg
Person organizing Taulex
Language en - English
en - English
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Starts at 2019/12/29 23:00
Ends at 2019/12/30 00:30
Duration 90 minutes
Location Room:Lecture room M1

This is the exact same talk as the talk with the same name from day 1, but with less "try yourself" and more, optimized information, as I got some useful feedback from my first talk and the wish to do it again.

Here is a Copy-Paste from the original Workshop (but this time there won't be any time for writing yourself):

This is for everyone eager to get started in Japanese reading and writing or get a few ideas on how to improve.

No knowledge of Japanese required, we will start from scratch. Please bring a pen and some paper to try some writing.

What we'll discuss:

  • What Japanese writing is made up of und which symbols are used for what purposes.
  • The most basic Japanese symbols, Hiragana and Katakana and try writing a few ourselves while also experiencing the ridiculously simple pronunciation. With that we can already read our first few words.
  • How to study Japanese in general
  • Why adults have a hard time reading texts made for children and why Japanese writing is a huge mess
  • The next step would be studying around 2000 Kanji, but we will just try writing a few, talk about the wacky world of reading Japanese texts with Kanji and how they are a complete mess and close the Workshop with looking at a method to get them into your head within half a year. The presented method for studying Kanji will be the Heisig method using koohii and Anki for best results in properly understanding the Kanji.

After this course and a few more minutes-hours of studying you will be ready to read a few easy Japanese children's books.

Useful stuff:

  • search for "Hiragana Chart" or "Katakana Chart" or "Hiragana chart stroke order" or "Katakana chart stroke order" to get all sorts of useful charts
  • Recommended Textbooks for studying Japanese: "Genki I" and "Genki II"
  • a detailed explanation of the Heisig method to study all the Kanji and an introduction to using Anki to do that. There is also a deck there to download with the best koohii stories up to 2015, but it needs some adjustments to be really useful: https://nihongoshark.com/learn-kanji/
  • Anki's website: https://apps.ankiweb.net/ for Android look for AnkiDroid and for iOS look for AnkiMobile (or something like that)
  • Kanji deck from above post from NihongoShark.com: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1956010956
  • -UPDATED AGAIN- Kanji deck from NihongoShark with adjustments as I would study them (only meaning to Kanji, no information that is too much): https://megastore.uni-augsburg.de/get/wUGuvVTmwS/
  • the koohii Community: https://kanji.koohii.com/ (<- not a page I used or visit, but that's where the stories are from for the deck)



If anything you wanted to see here is missing, write me an e-mail: alex.m.s@gmx.de

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