Kanshudo
Feb 16, 2022 — xiaolongbao
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Kanshudo
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- Kanshudo (Free Registration - 14,000 kanji, 260,000 words, 800 grammar, 150,000 example sentences, 600,000 names)
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Progress
Mastery level (info) from 1 to 70. These are grouped in sets of 9. The system measures your progress in four categories (kanji, vocab, grammar, and study points)
| Levels | Content |
|---|---|
| 1-9 | master hiragana and kanakata script. |
| 10-19 | 80 kanji, 500 words, 70 grammar points (N5) |
| 20-29 | 170 kanji, 1,000 words, 80 grammar points (N4) |
| 30-39 | 370 kanji, 1,500 words, 90 grammar points (N3) |
| 40-49 | 380 kanji, 2,000 words, 90 grammar points (N2) |
| 50-59 | 1,136 kanji, 5,000 words, 80 grammar points (N1) |
| 60-69 | 862 names, 1,000 unclassified kanji, grammar, vocabulary (Expert) |
How To
- Howto
- Getting started learning Japanese
- Guide to writing Japanese
- Guide to Japanese pitch accents
- How to use spaced repetition flashcards to study Japanese
- How to read kanji
- How to master kanji
- How to create flashcards on kanshudo
Mastery Map
| Uraga (浦賀) | Tokugawa Ieyasu (shogun military leader) controlled Japan on behalf of the Japanese emperor. Portuguese make first contact with Japan in 1543, then the Dutch (Liefde ship) who arrived in Sashifu. 200? year period of isolated (sakoku jidai) was initiated in 1641 to protect against guns, Christianity and trade. Only ships flying Dutch of Chinese flags were permitted to trade. Tsarist Russia sent a delagation to Nagasaki in 1803 led by Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov but was rejected. In 1853, Commodore Perry's four black ships (Susquehanna, Mississippi [streamers], Saratoga and Plymouth [sloops] arrive at Uraga (Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture) |
1. Uraga black ships (Japan Times)
Study
- Hiragana (Test, Draw, Flash Cards, Challenge)
- Katakana
- Beginner Lessons
- 53 stages of the kanshudo (53 lessons, 990 kanji, each set 18 kanji)
- Intermediate Lessons
- Textbook Companion
- Search
- Favorites (25 free)
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Grammar
- 々, 〻, 〱, ゝ and ヽ - kanji and kana repetition symbols
- other forms of です
- particle が subject marker
- これ、それ、あれ、この、その、あの
- casual sentence ending particle さ
- と and (join multiple nouns in a list)
- や incomplete list
- verb と clause
- noun + さ indication of degree
- さ turns nan い adjective into a noun
- on'yomi and kun'yomi readings of kanji (when part of kanji compound 熟語 jukugo nouns, 送り仮名okurigana for inflection of adjectives, verbs
- Japanese dates
- time
- Japanese numbers and counting
- how to read four and seven
- counters for objects
- ateji, jukujikun, gikun
- verb conjugation
- goden verbs
- ichidan verbs
- irregular verbs (suru, kuru)
| は | topic marker | pronounced "wa" XはYです (X is Y) | |
| です | -masu form, polite form | ||
| verb stem-ました | simple (polite) past tense | functions same as English simple past and present perfect | |
| を | direct object marker | after object but before verb | |
| で | by | ひとり one person, ひとりで alone | |
| で | at | where an action takes place, used after location | |
| を | object marker | to be acted upon by a verb | |
| に | date/time indicator | when used after a date it means "on that day", "at that time" indicates something occurs at that time | |
| に | destination | indicates destination | |
| に | location marker | ||
| の | possessive marker | noun+の XのY (X posseses Y / Y belongs to X) | |
| か | question marker | turns a statement into a question | |
| が | subject marker | ||
| と | and | ||
| も | also | ||
| や | |||
| あの | that over there | determiner, placed before noun it will modify, also この、その | |
| ね | question marker, isn't it?, aren't they? | asking agreement from the listener, usually ですね |
Ichidan example: 食べる (たべる) to eat
| Form | Stem | Conjugation |
|---|---|---|
| negative | たべ | ない |
| masu | たべ | ます |
| plain | たべ | る |
| conditional | たべ | られる |
| volitional | たべ | ましょう |
Godan example: 書く (かく) to write
| Form | Stem | Conjugation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| negative | か | か | ない |
| masu | か | き | ます |
| plain | か | く | |
| conditional | か | け | る |
| volitional | か | こ | う |
Hiragana
- 濁点「゛」(voiced symbol)
- 半濁点「゜」
- 拗音 kya
- 促音 tt (consonant doubling?)
- 送り仮名 inflect kanji words い in 高い
- 振り仮名 written above/side of kanji to indicate pronunciation
- き, さ, そ, ふ and ゆ written differently than some fonts
- repetition known as 畳語 jougo
- 畳句 jouku, repeated use of the same word or phrase in a sentence or poem (usually in haiku or waka, sometimes in song lyrics to mean "refrain")
- 畳字 jouji refers to the symbol marks themselves
- ゝ and ゞ double the previous kana こゝろ means こころ and いすゞ means いすず
- 々, 〻, 〱, ゝ and ヽ
- 々 ノマ、繰り返し、同の時点 repeat previous kanji including its pronunciation.
- ヶ from 箇 (個,个,カ)
- ヽand ヾ repeat katakana サヽキ as ささき
- 〻 variant of 々 but less common
- 〱 repeatition of two or more characters in vertical writing. less common and not included in many fonts.
- 〆 (しめ) info
Verbs
- regular verb, irregular verb, no case/gender/plural
- key verb conjugations
- かねる cannot, unable, tricky to do
- くださる、くださいます、下さいません (-te + kudasai / -te kudasaimasu ka / -te kudasaimasen ka / o-[verb] + kudasai)
- ください demand, casual polite order (point)
- くださいませんか polite order (to a superior)
- いただけませんか (subject is the speaker)
- ようお願い申し上げます humble entreat 使わないで、使わないでください、お使いにならないでください、ご使用にならないでください、ご使用にならないようお願い申し上げます
Conjugation 活用形
活用形 (かつようけい katsuyou-kei) refers to "verb conjugation" which is a grammatical term for inflecting (changing) the verb form which is split between 語幹 (ごかん gokan "verb stem") and 語尾 (ごび gobi "verb ending"). ref
- plain form (dictionary form) 辞書形 jisho-kei(ichidan -ru, godan -(x)u) informal speech
- masu form (polite form)
- plain past form 過去形 kako-kei (casual conversation)
Levels of Speech
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