09 Dec 2013, 6:19 pm
carturo222 wrote:
Also, I happened to find a book series I didn't remember had an English version. It's called "Japanese in Mangaland", and it was written by a Spanish guy who lives in Japan. The interesting thing about it is that it illustrates its examples by using real manga excerpts, so you can see the use of Japanese expressions in real Japanese publications. It's not a kanji catalogue, but it has terrific grammar explanations. Links:
Japanese in Mangaland, vol. 1
Japanese in Mangaland, vol. 2
Japanese in Mangaland, vol. 3
Japanese in Mangaland, vol. 1
Japanese in Mangaland, vol. 2
Japanese in Mangaland, vol. 3
Thank you for pointing this out, it looks really like fun learning with those.
Also I notice extremely that "normal" writing systems like the Latin, Hebrew or Kana writing systems get processed in the brain a lot differently than Kanji. Kanji is remembered in the visual cortex and Kana in the language part or the brain. So being dyslexic and highly visual means that I can easily remember 200 Kanji in 4 days and also visualise most of them, but still strugle with Kana.
It may sound strange, but it really messes me up, because I feel like a strange freak or something because of that.
Everyone I talk to says that Kana is easy and Kanji difficult, but my own experience is just the other way around, because with Kanji I don't have to remember any spelling and it's easy for me to visualise Kanji.
So, now I try to learn to also visualise Kana also, because I still keep forgetting them and I've difficulty remembering them even after practising them over and over, I don't have that problem with Kanji though.
I've the feeling, I'll never come along with Kana.
I wish there would be more Kanji and less Kana.
