So I was thinking about how it's been 8 years since I've been in Japan, and I'm still essentially illiterate in the Japanese written language! I thought that a really awesome resolution would be to be literate by the 10 year mark.
I mentioned this to my lovely wife Natalie as a way to get myself accountable to someone, and she said she would do it with me! So now I'm even more pumped!
We'll spend the next two weeks brushing her up on her Kana (If she only needs a week we'll start a week early) and then we will divide the characters listed for the JLPT up throughout the next two years. This boils down to about 80 characters a month.
We're still working out the details for whether we will do a 3 characters per day thing, or 21 weekly, or a 28-monthly with extra days in the month as review days, or exactly how we will stay learned in the lettering we have already been through.
I've found some cards that I like fine so far from White Rabbit, and they have three sets. The first has 284 cards, the second has 739 and third has 903. They offer a 3-set deal that is cheaper than buying them individually, but I got mine at Amazon where they were a bit less.
We're still working out exactly how we will study. At least quizzing each other on the cards and writing them over and over on some sort of large grid paper.
Stay tuned, and anyone who wants to do this with us is welcome.
1 comment:
I'm so excited! I can't wait to learn more Japanese. It's been too long.
Post a Comment