Ah so immersion. I was already greatly considering that form of learning. If I were to ever learn it I'll do that and I suppose add in that breaking up sentences thing you're doing.
With there being no spaces in written text in Japanese, I sort of have had to learn to bust up sentences. It seems like a fairly simple language otherwise, with the real hard work being just the sheer volume of characters. I don't know but a tiny handful of kanji, and I think they say a kid who has finished grade school should know around 1000. I think that will come though as I get better and spending less time on figuring out the sentences. A lot of manga use the furigana (it's kanji represented in the hiragana alphabet) too, so that helps. Except I'm too old to read it half the time without a magnifying glass. Japanese kids must have damn good eyesight.
Yeah a lot of manga aimed at children has furigana in it, like Naruto for example, since they might not know the kanji.
Recently I tried listening to an anime I had already watched without subtitles and I was amazed that I was able to pick up a phrase or word about every other sentence. I should really discipline myself and start learning.
Ah so immersion. I was already greatly considering that form of learning. If I were to ever learn it I'll do that and I suppose add in that breaking up sentences thing you're doing.
With there being no spaces in written text in Japanese, I sort of have had to learn to bust up sentences. It seems like a fairly simple language otherwise, with the real hard work being just the sheer volume of characters. I don't know but a tiny handful of kanji, and I think they say a kid who has finished grade school should know around 1000. I think that will come though as I get better and spending less time on figuring out the sentences. A lot of manga use the furigana (it's kanji represented in the hiragana alphabet) too, so that helps. Except I'm too old to read it half the time without a magnifying glass. Japanese kids must have damn good eyesight.
Yeah a lot of manga aimed at children has furigana in it, like Naruto for example, since they might not know the kanji.
Recently I tried listening to an anime I had already watched without subtitles and I was amazed that I was able to pick up a phrase or word about every other sentence. I should really discipline myself and start learning.