The secret master plan… Shhh, don’t tell anybody…
- YKS lesson components
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- Video 1 )an explanation of Kanji but as a PPT video
- Video 2 )
- explain how kanji go together/break apart
- Also use Kanji stories intro stuff in there too
- Video 3&4)
- Use the “subliminal” videos (have a write up explaining what they are for I.e. getting used to seeing kanji breakdown)
- Video 1 )an explanation of Kanji but as a PPT video
Outline Draft
Kanji Course
- Intro
- who course is for / how helpful
- newbie ; right foot
- advanced ; so you can finally write by hand by heart
- what are Kanji why important?
- spelling (mental shift ->“condensed spelling”)
- thoughts on kanji
- logical
- interesting
- a better system than english (light, microwave, etc. all using 電)
- who course is for / how helpful
- kanji method (mnemonic recall methods)
- kanji method application (learning in order; breaking down kanji found in the wild)
- not writing each 1000 times
- learning to “spell” using radicals
- using a “flood approach” (unique to YKS)
- no new kanji without familiar components
- when encounter kanji in the wild break it down
- how to mnemonic stories
- vivid “mind’s eye” (create a scene; one frame)
- how to have fun with kanji
- obsession (Joy O’ Kanji)
- textbooks in YKS order; textbook supplement workbooks in YKS order
- kanji method application (learning in order; breaking down kanji found in the wild)
- learning to recognise
- excel/powerpoint file of the 1700 kanji ; then make it into a video, put audio over
- testing to learn (i.e. testing yourself on a bunch of kanji at one time then retest; don’t care about score, just a study gauge)
- learning to write
- morph mnemonic into kanji video (powerpoint)
- learning to read
- context via textbook supplement workbooks to Tae Kim, etc.
- learning the jukugo
- same as #5
- Practising through tadoku and “ta-kaku”
- browser add on for marking kanji levels on websites
- substituting english actions with Japanese actions
- out of comfort zone
- journaling in Japanese for “extensive writing”
- browser add on for marking kanji levels on websites
ideal students of the course:
- teachers
- who want to work with students learning kanji
- can use the course just to get the method down
- can have their students take the course as a classroom supplement
- who want to work with students learning kanji
- Tutors
- Want to have a certification program for Kanji Mnemonic Tutors
- Students learning in a classroom but not getting Kanji
- (non ideal but still good) self learners