Year 12 Japanese Textbooks in PDF?

[Greatness]

I dont like kanji full stop!! why cant japanese ppl just use their hiragana and katakana? would mkae learning jap so much easier
Well im not sure on what im going to do my oral on yet...

[IntoTheNewWorld]

I dont like kanji full stop!! why cant japanese ppl just use their hiragana and katakana? would mkae learning jap so much easier
Well im not sure on what im going to do my oral on yet...

that's why I'm learning Korean

The grammar is almost exactly the same as Japanese, the words sound similar, but Kanji has been purged from the writing system yayyyyy.

[Greatness]

that sounds good. i know a few ppl who are doing/ have done jap sl and korean combo and done well in both!

[Furbob]

LOL I love Kanji! they have little stories in each of them and it makes me appreciate Chinese as well

but I do admit that it makes picking up a Japanese article and reading it a bit daunting

[Zien]

Haha, try picking up a Chinese newspaper. It just makes me feel ashamed to be Chinese but not know any kanji when my mum reads a Chinese newspaper. >.> I shall do mandarin as a breadth subject in Uni though. :p

I was watching a Korean drama a week or so ago, and I was like "Woah, that words in Japanese. WHY IS THERE NO KANJI IN THEIR HANGUL?!" I was extremely jealous.

[Greatness]

Well i havent started trying to memorise all the kanji yet, so maybe the stories will help

[Zien]

I wish our teacher taught it to us radical by radical and telling us the meaning behind each one. But we're mostly just learning kanji for the sake of learning kanji. : /

[Greatness]

yep thats the same as us Zien.
I downlaoded that kanji book that Furbob suggested and it's pretty good, it shows how a symbol or thing changes into the kanji so it sort of has a story/meaning behind it

[sheepgomoo]

kanji gives me headaches.
sometimes i know what it means, but thats only cause i know chinese. and only SOME characters have similar meanings. And usually i dont know how to pronounce them..
because im doing both chinese and jap for vce, i wonder if ill get mixed up

[Zien]

yep thats the same as us Zien.
I downlaoded that kanji book that Furbob suggested and it's pretty good, it shows how a symbol or thing changes into the kanji so it sort of has a story/meaning behind it

Just did so and this is actually so interesting. I wonder if it covers the Kanji needed and beyond VCE level~

kanji gives me headaches.
sometimes i know what it means, but thats only cause i know chinese. and only SOME characters have similar meanings. And usually i dont know how to pronounce them..
because im doing both chinese and jap for vce, i wonder if ill get mixed up

My class of eight people (yes, only eight D:) has three people who did Chinese Second Language this year for Year 11 and they usually know the kanji before we even learn them. : / Doesn't stop me from beating them in the kanji tests because I know their Japanese meaning better. XD So just focus more on the Japanese aspect of it; the prior Chinese knowledge does help but don't let it control your learning~ I've seen my friends make that mistake many times.

[Furbob]

^ yes the book does cover a few kanji beyond VCE

I personally use kanji that is not of the VCE list in my writing and I find it helpful as it cuts down squares and there's a sense of achievement went you realize that your essay looks more complicated-looking than someone elses in a way

[Zien]

Haha that's awesome. If I have some extra time during the year if I'm not learning vocab or fixing up my Oral Exam prep. I'll definitely try and learn some extra ones to cut down on genkooyooshi. I find out I'm either stressed for space or stressed for time. If I was stressed for space, I would spend too much planning to make my essay more concise and then stress for time. :p

Need more practice !

By the way, is it only me that hates the romanization of げんこうようし. In fact, that and おべんとう as well; there's just 'O's replacing the "U"s in English. : /

[Greatness]

Im really like that kanji book it beats the purple by a lot!!
and there's not that much of an advantage or disadvantage being chinese thus knowing the kanji. Like Zien said they will know the kanji but perhaps not know the japanese meaning so well.