Learning Japanese - Days 14 & 15

Yesterday (Day 14) I started setting up an Anki deck, consisting of all the vocabulary I've learned so far. Anki seems like a great way to get things stored in memory as it used a spaced repetition learning method. I will try and use it for a little bit every day!

Today I had my next lesson. This time he got me to try and read some sentences and learn how to look up kanji I didn't know the meaning of by using the Radical.

A radical is a part of the kanji which is used inside it...

Taken from a great website called Kanjialive:

Every kanji without exception only has one radical / 部首 (ぶしゅ). Each radical has a meaning(s) and lends its meaning(s) to the kanji of which it is part. Please take a look at the examples below. The right part of these three kanji is the same but the left part is different. The left part of these kanji is their radical. Note how each radical imparts its meaning to the kanji:

時: The radical of this kanji is 日 (sun, day, time). The meaning of this kanji is “time.” 詩: The radical of this kanji is 言 (words, to speak, say). The meaning of this kanji is “poetry, poem”. 持: The radical of this kanji is 扌(hand). The meaning of this kanji is “to hold”.

Take a look HERE for the rest of the site's post about Radicals.

This is one of the pages I was trying to read earlier.

Some important Kanji which I need to remember from this are:

何　（なん・なに）What? / What is?

金　（かね） Money

下さい　（下さい）Please (not to be confused with 下に which means under.)

火山　（かざん）Volcano

山田　（やまだ）Yamada (a name, look for san next to it.)

学校　（がっこう）School

門　（もん）Gate

学生　（がくせい）Student

百五十　（ひゃくごじゅう）150

and a few more that weren't on that sheet.

色　（いろ）Colour

水　（みず）Water

中国　（ちゅうごく）🇨🇳 China

韓国　（かんこく）🇰🇷 Korea

英国　（えいこく）UK / Great Britain

That's all the learning I can take.. it's been a long day! I hope to fit in some more study tomorrow! Goodnight.

おやすみなさい！

#LearningJapanese