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pLuvia

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hey guys, for your vocab and sentence structures do you keep a separate book for them, like for me I get a separate book for my vocab for the chapter and spare vocab for the chapter, and the structures in the same book for each chapter..

how do you guys do it to memorise?
 

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There is only one way to learn Japanese properly- pratice, practice, practice
 

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Choose a vocabulary word or two and construct a sentence with a structure or two including the vocab. You could just do 'look cover write check' to learn vocabulary, but you need to do that often so you don't forget it. I think it's better to learn it by practice.. there's the advantage of practising structures, and it helps you remember the vocab when it's in a context in a (nicely structured) sentence.
 

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what's written above is 100% true~ and there's no easier way than that~
having lists of vocabs and structures won't help you remember them....
they may help you short term but it won't ever last long enough for you to use in exams... especially you never really get the chance to use them because of the 'intensity' of exam conditions~ keeping a list may be a good way to look back but not to remember..... just practice practice and practice and use the structures and the vocabs and create sentences and don't stop until it's stuck in your head~
and the more mistakes you make now... the better.... because by getting it wrong.... you'll be corrected the correct way and it'll help you to get it right more than it would have if you never made mistakes~
 
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yupgisonyun said:
what's written above is 100% true~ and there's no easier way than that~
having lists of vocabs and structures won't help you remember them....
they may help you short term but it won't ever last long enough for you to use in exams... especially you never really get the chance to use them because of the 'intensity' of exam conditions~ keeping a list may be a good way to look back but not to remember..... just practice practice and practice and use the structures and the vocabs and create sentences and don't stop until it's stuck in your head~
and the more mistakes you make now... the better.... because by getting it wrong.... you'll be corrected the correct way and it'll help you to get it right more than it would have if you never made mistakes~
yupgisonyun go online..
 

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Write them all down. Choose a few at a time, write five sentances for each of the structures.

Most popular structures among examiners:

HAVE to (nakerebanarimasen)
I think ( to omou)
I want/Intend to: (Ikitai desu, etc)
Because: (Nazenara)
For example: (Tatoeba)
Also: (Soshite)
Afterwars/ After this: (Ato de/ Sorekara)
Because: (kara/ no de)
Isn't: (Kunai)
Wasn't ( Kunakatta)

Learn them, use them, have fun! :p
 
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Doobie said:
Write them all down. Choose a few at a time, write five sentances for each of the structures.

Most popular structures among examiners:

HAVE to (nakerebanarimasen)
I think ( to omou)
I want/Intend to: (Ikitai desu, etc)
Because: (Nazenara)
For example: (Tatoeba)
Also: (Soshite)
Afterwars/ After this: (Ato de/ Sorekara)
Because: (kara/ no de)
Isn't: (Kunai)
Wasn't ( Kunakatta)

Learn them, use them, have fun! :p
oh ok thanks doobie~
the only ones i havent heard of are "to omou" and "nazenara"

thanks agen

doumo arigatou
 

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Dotashimashite!

You'll find that to omou is a very good one to Use. Tatoeba, I would get to learn REALLYwell, because then you can crap on about heaps of stuff :p
 
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yeh ive already started using tatoeba lol, its really useful~
 

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i just write about 4 - 5 sentences with at least 1 senior structure in each of the sentences for every topic...
and i just learn them... =]
it worked!
 

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garry said:
vocab is easy
just watch anime, read comic or read the text books

Anime doesn'thelp at all, they speak too quickly for most learners to understand, let alone comprehend. And I must admit,anyone that's doing there HSC is a learner.
 
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learnt 5 new structures in 1 hr~~ my jap tutor is the best~~ :):p

~ to omoi masu (to think)
~ dochira no houga ~ desu (comparison of two things)
~ dore ga ichiban ~ desu (comparison of more than 2 things)
~ dore wo ichiban ~ masu (comparison of more than 2 things)
~ te form kimasu } to go somewhere and do something
~ plain form tameni ~place~ ni ikimasu } " "
~ soudesu (hearsay)
~ te kara ~ (after this, i did this)
~ plain form atode ~ " "
~ plain form mae ni ~ " "

rather 10 structures LOL, :p :D:)
 

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Its plain past atode

And those structures are all pretty basic, how come you haven't learnt them at school yet
 
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hey, ive always been confused with this kind of conjunctions

niha
deha
noga


etc.. can some explain what these mean and add some more.. arigatou gozaimasu~
 
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