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Penny Rose [ Serah Farron ] ([personal profile] rememberher) wrote in [community profile] thefarshore2017-03-15 08:49 pm

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From: Lux
Date: June 24
Hello everyone, I hope that I'm doing this right. I will admit, I'm still getting used to using this, so please be patient with me.

I was curious, for those who struggle with reading or writing here: do you have any tips? I feel like I'm slowly making progress, but it's frustrating when you can't read most of what you find in the library. I think I saw something about learning, but I may be mistaken.

Alternately, is there anyone who wants to put together small study groups for those of us who aren't as proficient with reading and writing in Japanese? Does something like that exist? If not, would anyone be interested?

-Lux
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[personal profile] fadingsunshine 2017-03-19 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm also learning from mister Hakkai myself!

Well, some kanji I've associate with the meaning. It's supposed to be based in old drawings, I've been told. So sometimes it's easy to see the original shape! For instance:

木 = It looks like a pine, so it's "tree"! And

森 = That's three little trees together, so it's a "forest"!

But the ones that aren't obvious are hard...
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[personal profile] fadingsunshine 2017-03-22 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's too bad it doesn't work with everything.

Here's another tip. So sun is 日 which doesn't look like the sun because it's square, right? But maybe you can think of it as a window. Day is also the same kanji! The time the sun takes to come back again! And then moon is 月, which is like the sun had little legs. Month is the same kanji as moon, sorta the time it takes for a full moon to come back!
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[personal profile] fadingsunshine 2017-03-26 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
[She's not sure of the meaning of the long word. She thinks she's figured it out from the sentence, though.]

Maybe, but that means it's one less character to memorize so it's not that bad.