2,500 kanji and counting :)
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 by Agro Rachmatullah
Wow… I haven’t done my dump for ages. The last one was around 3 months ago!
But rest assured, since graduation I have been doing lots of real readings. I stil haven’t finished the monstrous Wikipedia WW2 article. I also managed to read some stories from bookstudio, mostly ren’ai stuffs and some adventures. Plus some other random stuffs like newspapers and some physical books I have.
I also still haven’t finished these two textbooks: Routledge and Colloquial Japanese. I’m also still listening to japanesepod101 daily to improve my listening. I’ve finished all survival and newbie series, and now halfway through beginner season 1 :).
But now that I’m now officially working as a programmer whose job doesn’t have anything to do with Japanese, my time to study Japanese has decreased significantly. Let’s just hope it doesn’t die out. Please everyone, pray for me.
Anyway, for this dump I’ve gathered 300 new kanji and 491 new words. Now the total is 2,609 kanji and 10,888 words. Yes, I’ve passed the 2,500 milestone!
Impressive? Well, I think I still need around 500 more to achive the level of literacy I want. I still occasionally find new ones, see? The key here is constancy. If I keep reading and learning new kanji, no matter how slow it is, it will pile up. In my case, the average learning rate between my last dump and this one is only 3.9 kanji per day. That’s not too demanding, right? Couple it with Mnemosyne so you won’t forget kanji you’ve learned.
One tip today for those also learning kanji. Don’t get too caught up in artificial lists (Jouyou, JLPT)! Go find some real reading material and learn the kanji you find there! By experiencing how the kanji is actually used, it will stick on your mind more easily. You might be interested to know that from the 2600+ kanji I’ve learned, I still haven’t encountered three grade 5 and one grade 6 Jouyou kanji. And of course lots of grade 8 kanji. That’s depite the fact that I found lots of “gradeless” kanji! Shows you how useful those lists are…
The only time where you should exhaust an artificial list is when you’re going to take a test with predetermined kanji (e.g., JLPT) soon. Other than that, you can forget about them.
Anyway, here are all the new kanji:
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And the words: