- May 2, 2012
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Hi There... I have been learning Japanese for about 6 months now. I've memorized the hiragana and katakana completely and lately I've been working on kanji and grammar. I also do the pimsleur audio courses for for speech along with some various iPhone apps and other vocabulary lists I find on the net. I'm making progress but it seems to be a long for the day when I can watch Japanese TV without subtitles or read a manga that hasn't been scanlated.
Anyway, like I said, I started working on kanji recently and I've gotten about 30 of them learned so far. But what I don't really understand is when you see two kanji and they make a new word that doesn't have anything to do with either of them. Are you suppose to go by the sound of the combined kanji or is their something else. Out of all the books and net articles I've read, not one single one explains where this new words come from.
The worst part about learning on my own is not having a teacher to ask these questions.
thank You,
Jeffrey Gibson
Anyway, like I said, I started working on kanji recently and I've gotten about 30 of them learned so far. But what I don't really understand is when you see two kanji and they make a new word that doesn't have anything to do with either of them. Are you suppose to go by the sound of the combined kanji or is their something else. Out of all the books and net articles I've read, not one single one explains where this new words come from.
The worst part about learning on my own is not having a teacher to ask these questions.
thank You,
Jeffrey Gibson