How to look like you

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How to look like youre studying Kanji

• The Dan Reynolds Method

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Step One

• Get a book!

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Not just ANY book will do!

• Your workbook is a great way to look like youre
  studying. For many of you this book probably
  came with your texts!
• But if you feel like spending money

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A Kanji book would be a good idea, too!
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The real trick is

• Make sure whatever book you have is big enough.
• Why, you might ask?

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To fit your manga inside!You big geek, you!
If you can fit the book in nicely you can look
like your studying without getting bored! And
that is a very GOOD thing. ?
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Okay, now, Dan will pretend like he knows what
hes talking about

• The two most important things you need to know
  (aside from literal MEANING) in order to have
  functional skill with Kanji
• You need to know how to write the kanji
• You need to know kanji readings (on, kun)

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Why you need to know how to write the kanji

• Sensei once asked Dan how he memorized produce
  codes as a cashier at vitamin cottage

• Green Pepper 94065
• Egg Plant 94081
• Red Grapes 94023
• Italian Plums 94038
• Seedless Watermelon 94032
• Large Valencia Oranges 94388
• Red Pepper 94088
• Yellow Onion 94665
• Ginger 94612
• Butternut Squash 94759

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Practice!

• I know it seems pretty cliché at this time to
  tell you to practice but the only way youre
  going to memorize how to write a kanji is when it
  becomes rote (not wrote) although thats how you
  get it
• Only by routine use of the kanji will you begin
  to memorize them!

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I guess what Im trying to say is

• To be able to READ Kanji
• is to understand Kanji.
• To be able to WRITE Kanji
• is to know Kanji.

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Why should you know the readings?

• When you know the readings you can begin to
  synthesize pronunciations for new compound
  words. It also helps you SPEAK when you know how
  to pronounce the words youre pretending to know!
  ?

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So then what about the books?
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Thats right, our little friends!

• Of all the little tricks and methods we can use
  to try and remember Kanji, these books exploit it
  all! Thats right, its like people sit around
  and try to make up new ways to learn kanji all
  daynow hows that for a day job? Eh?

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For example

• What the heck does THIS mean?
• ???
• Lets break it down!

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• Person, nin, jin, etc, etc

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House, ie, ya, etc, etc
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Borrow, shaku, ka, etc, etc
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So we have

• A person

Who borrows
A house
? ya ie etc
? nin jin etc
? shaku sha ka
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Make sense?

• Would we call a House Borrowing Person a tenant?
• Maybe!
• Why not?

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But does Dan know any tricks?

• Not really.
• ?
• Well there is that one thing that everyone does

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PICTURES!

• Learning by pictures is only good for recognizing
  kanji by sight, not for learning how to WRITE
  kanji.
• Its a short-cut that only takes you half-way.