I moved my blog!!!

As the title already says I moved my blog.
The new link is: http://vttlj.wordpress.com/
Hope to see you there too.

P.S: I will keep this blog online, but I won't post anything anymore.

Japanese Vocabulary Anki Deck (Kanji,Hiragana and Romaji)

This is an Anki-Deck I created a while ago with Vocabulary ,the Quizlet Flashcards are based on it,but with the difference that this deck is updated more often and the Vocabularys are in Kanji,Hiragana and Romaji.

HOW TO USE IT(I will explain how to use it for people,who don't know it)
1.Register an account at AnkiWeb
2.Go to the Tab "More"->"Deck Subscriptions"
3.Fill c26a5d2e160d2dda  in the "Key"-Field.
4.Klick on "Update" and have fun reviewing

Japanese Vocabulary (Hiragana only)

I added a new site to the blog,where you can study Japanese Vocabularys.
The vocabulary's are only in Hiragana (no Kanji and Romaji).
At the moment there are very few,but I will add more in the future so look forward to it.

P.S:
I postponed the review of the NHK Japanese Study site,because I don't really use it atm,but I will add it in the future.

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.

The three best (Japanese) Language Learning-Apps(in my opionion) for iPod/iPhone

1.Kotoba
This is a multilingual Japanese Dictionary for iPod/iPhone.It recognizes Romaji,Hiragana and Kanji-Input and shows the stroke order (of the most Kanji),a Hiragana Transcription.

2.AnkiMobile
AnkiMobile is the mobile Version of the famous SRS Anki.It is a bit expensive but nonetheless very helpfull if you want to review Kanji/Kana or other things on the go-

3.Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese
This is a very good Japanese Grammar Guide(also available on the internet),that covers a lot of topics of the Japanese Language.

Merry Christmas 

Koi Hitoyo by Acid Black Cherry

I can't really study a lot Japanese these days,because of school.So here is another song.

Blowin' by B'z

I really like to listen to this song when I'm in a good mood and I am in a good mood at the moment so here are the lyrics.

An interesting way to learn Kanjis,Hiragana and Katakanas

In my second post I want to present you an interesting way to learn Kanjis,Hiragana and Katakana (especially Hiragana for me,because I can't associate the Charackter with a word or an image)through playing a little PC-Game.
The game is called "Knuckles in China Land" and it is a Sonic Clone.
How does it help me to learn Kanjis,Hiragana and Katakana?
It's quite easy the game is forcing you to fight and if you fight it will show you a few cards with Japanese Charakters (you can use it to learn about every language if you use the custom dictionary function) you have to "guess" the right meaning if you are right the card will be destroyed and when every card is destroyed than you win,besides it has a more or less interesting story.
You can even create and use your own custom cards to adjust it to your level of knowledge.
The games already quite old and hard to find on the web,thats why I uploaded it here:
Download:Knuckles of China Land

Introduction

I will introduce myself with my first post.
I am a ? (fill in as you see fit.I won't tell my age,) year old student in a german grammar school and a huge fan of Anime,Manga and Light Novels.Because of my love to those things I got the idea to learn Japanese.Easier said (or in my case thought) than done.I already gathered all my willpower a few times,but in the end it was wasted time.I failed every time.But then I found the the website AJATT by chance and the aim of learning Japanese came a step closer.As time went on I found a few other helpful websites to support me (smart.fm and kanji.koohii.com).
Why do I even bother writing this blog?If this is what you are asking yourself then here's the answer.
There are two reasons:
1.as a personnel progress report
2.to improve my written Englis,SO PLEASE TELL ME IF YOU SEE A MISTAKE