Online Japanese Lesson(by NHK)

I found this site by chance ,when searching for japanese kid's show.It offers a variety of Japanese Lessons,you can even download the MP3-Files and the Text as  a .pdf-File for all lessons.I don't really know if it's good or not but at least the first lesson looked promising.I will do some more and write a review of it in the near future. Click here (http://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/)

Agony by Kotoko

It's been a while since my last Post,I don't really know what to write lately so here is a music video.I wouldn't know this singer if it weren't for kaze(he posted a music video of this singer on his blog: click here) so thank you.

Remembering the Kanji or Core 2000? Core 2000 Pro and Contra!

I don't really now what to write as an introduction,so I will get straight to the point.

Core 2000

[+]Core 2000 will not only teach you kanji but compounds too

[+]it will teach you how to pronounciate the kanji and on top of that even the hiragana transcription

[+]Core 2000 will give you a sentence with the kanji as an example

[+]it is really easy to review already learned kanji with iKnow

[-]the iKnow application isn't really cut out for learning  things,so it's rather hard to learn the kanji efficiently.

[-]the example sentences are probably not much of a help,because you don't know the majority of the words/kanji

[-]learning it with iKnow is a royal pain in the ass:no mnemonics,that can help you to remember the kanji,only images.The only way to really remember them is to reapeat them over and over again over a very long period of time

Remembering the Kanji or Core 2000? RTK Pro and Contra!

This articles is only about the pros and contras of Heisig's book Remembering the Kanji,the second part,about the pro and contras of Core 2000 will be published in about a week.

In my opinion learning the Kanji is the hardest part of learning Japanese,there are thousands of them and at least dozens of methods on how to learn them. I already tried a few , while struggling to efficiently learn them. A few methods are (really) good and other only bullshit.Remembering the Kanji (in short "RTK") and Core 2000 are one of the well known methods. I "worked" with both of them a bit (especially with RTK) and want to share my expiriences.