Another major accomplishment! I managed to learn the kanji and words from the Japanese Wikipedia article on Galileo (timestamped 2007-02-19 12:36).
Here are the 96 new kanji:
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And 205 words:
This is the coupling track of Morning Musume’s 25th single, “THE Manpower!!!”. Heh, I actually like this a lot more than the single itself :). The lyrics itself is quite silly, first being serious and asking questions like “Does peace exist because there is love, or does love exist because there is peace?” but eventually ends with “There’s no answer, so let’s just eat deliciously” :).
4 new kanji:
承蔭継懇
Stats:
And the words:
| Kanji | Kana | English |
|---|---|---|
| 初心者 | しょしんしゃ | beginner |
| お蔭で | おかげで | thanks to you |
| 半信半疑 | はんしんはんぎ | dubious |
| 継承 | けいしょう | inheritance |
| もりもり | energetically | |
| 懇親 | こんしん | friendship |
Also a song from Koharu’s 1st album (lyrics). It is also the coupling track of her first single (Koi ka na). A very nice and enjoyable ballad.
6 new kanji:
悩頬撫膨蕾姿
Stats:
And lastly, the words:
| Kanji | Kana | English |
|---|---|---|
| 羽根 | はね | wing |
| 姿 | すがた | appearance |
| 落っこちる | おっこちる | to fall down |
| ふらり | aimlessly | |
| 膨らむ | ふくらむ | to expand |
| 蕾 | つぼみ | bud |
| 悩む | なやむ | to be worried |
| 頬っぺた | ほっぺた | cheek |
| 撫でる | なでる | to brush gently |
Another song from Koharu’s 1st album (lyrics). This song is quite crazy but also fun.
3 new kanji:
腕駆誘
The stats:
And the words:
| Kanji | Kana | English |
|---|---|---|
| お祝い | おいわい | congratulation |
| 誘う | さそう | to invite |
| 計算 | けいさん | calculation |
| 腕 | うで | arm |
| 絡まる | からまる | to be entangled |
| 駆け引き | かけひき | strategy |
| 甘え | あまえ | depending on other’s kindness |
A song from Kusumi Koharu’s 1st album, Mitsuboshi (lyrics). Here she stars as the anime character Tsukishima Kirari. The anime name is Kirarin Revolution, and it is about a girl who can’t sing but strives hard to be a singer (she has a romantic motive to be a singer, but I won’t tell much further).
Well, I don’t watch the anime and not a fan of Koharu. However I got the album cover (with kanji lyrics!) and so thought it would be a cool romanization excercise.
The song itself is quite nice.
So, 5 new kanji:
暖匂斯溢飽
The stats:
And 14 words:
This is from track 3 of Morning Musume’s 7th album, “Rainbow 7″ (lyrics). A really fun and energizing song, with trumpets and harmonica!
There are 4 new kanji:
眩吹繋輝
The stats:
And the words:
| Kanji | Kana | English |
|---|---|---|
| 繋ぐ | つなぐ | to connect |
| 教わる | おそわる | to be taught |
| 準備 | じゅんび | preparation |
| 吹く | ふく | to blow (e.g., wind) |
| 羽ばたく | はばたく | to flap (wings) |
| 何時だって | いつだって | always |
| 眩しい | まぶしい | dazzling |
| 輝く | かがやく | to shine |
This is from Matsuura Aya’s single (lyrics). I think I first heard it on a Hello! Project concert. Nice song.
There are only 2 new kanji:
縺眺
The new word stats:
And the words themselves:
| Kanji | Kana | English |
|---|---|---|
| 永遠 | えいえん | eternity |
| 縺れる | もつれる | to be tangled |
| 解く | ほどく | to untie |
| 途切れる | とぎれる | to be interrupted |
| 景色 | けしき | scenery |
| 眺める | ながめる | to gaze |
| 卒業 | そつぎょう | graduation |
I kanjified 72 words on my word list. In the process I learned 31 new kanji:
己裂閣陛朕痛撮疲壊砕抜蚊喫困煙蛇菓傘逃帽拙眼汚奴郵謝条垂余勧慌
Here are the 72 words:
Random words and kanji are those that I randomly encounter, for example while watching a movie.
Side-effect words are dictionary words that I picked when learning a new kanji from another dump. For example, I encountered 激しい (hageshii, intense) while hunting from a song. 激 was a new kanji for me, and to know its on-reading I searched for some compounds in the dictionary. Those compounds, e.g. 激化 (gekika, intensification) are considered side-effect words because they are not in the original material.
It is also possible that I deliberately set out to memorize words or kanji from a particular source, but the amount is too small to warrant its own section.
A notable source for the current dump is guidetojapanese.org and the name of Morning Musume and Berryz Koubou members.
There are 51 new kanji:
彩暇磨擬譲怒穏契華吉皆叫翼裕蝉痩呟茉莉閑臥釆菅餌澤雍卿嗣雅沙箇荒柳拳圭奈須智紗属欲玄琴勢妻尊垣寧謙耶紺
And 405 words:
These are the dumps for the past 1 month: this, this, this, this, this, this, and this. I managed to gather 228 new kanji and 999 new words, so now I know 1,314 kanji and 6,953 words. They say that you need to know around 2000 kanji for literacy, and by visiting random Wikipedia articles this seems very much true.
Anyway, for the kanji and vocabulary knowledge, I already passed JLPT level 2 which requires 1,000 kanji and 6,000 words. Of course our kanji and word set are probably different. The highest level of JLPT, level 1, requires 2,000 kanji and 10,000 words.