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Posted: 2024-02-16,
Tags:
joy-o-kanji
kanji
We've bundled 16 more Joy o' Kanji essays to show you the connections between kanji. Bundles 15 and 16 largely focus on water. The first collection presents the pleasures of bathing outdoors, the history of bathhouses, and the nuts and bolts of bathtub terms. Bundle 16 looks at the relationship between mounded-up earth (e.g., embankments and ridges in fields) and the water below (e.g., moats and flooded rice fields). Bundles 17 and 18 focus on intricate systems. The former introduces the way people have conceptually divided the hours in a day. The latter bundle examines hard-working animals that produce items that have boosted the Japanese economy.
15
In Hot Water
栓 槽 岡 呂
16
Corduroy Landforms
畝 堤 畔 堀
17
Windows of Time
午 更 宵 旦
18
Intricate Systems
繭 桑 巣 蜂
Thematic Bundles are available for purchase at the discounted price of $8. (Four essays would normally cost $12.) You can also access bundles with essay credits, which are allocated as part of joint Kanshudo + Joy o' Kanji subscriptions.
Joy o' Kanji essays are a great way to deepen your insight into specific kanji, and bundles will introduce you to new connections and more profound meanings. Try a Thematic Bundle today!
Posted: 2024-01-30,
Tags:
joy-o-kanji
kanji
We recently introduced Thematic Bundles, which enable you to make connections that you might otherwise miss among groups of Joy o' Kanji essays. We're back with a new bundle o' bundles! By reading Bundles 11 through 14, you can engage deeply with the natural world, from fruit trees and flowers to the hills of Japan, as well as with delicious foods from the fields and seas.
11
Flower Power
菊 丹 梗 藤
12
Favorite Foods
芋 寿 麺 拉
13
Fruit Basket
桑 桃 梅 柿
14
Ups and Downs
凹 丘 凸 岡
Thematic Bundles are available for purchase at the discounted price of $8. (Four essays would normally cost $12.) You can also access bundles with essay credits, which are allocated as part of joint Kanshudo + Joy o' Kanji subscriptions.
Joy o' Kanji essays are a great way to deepen your insight into specific kanji, and bundles will introduce you to new connections and more profound meanings. Try a Thematic Bundle today!
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2023 has been an exciting year for Kanshudo: we've added lots of new content to some of our core programs, including 20 Topic Lessons, 38 Joy o' Kanji Essays, 24 articles in the Grammar Library, and nearly 1000 example sentences. We've also added two very exciting new features - AI Sentence Correct which provides specific feedback and improvement suggestions for Japanese sentences you enter, and Thematic Bundles, which are linked sets of four in-depth kanji essays.
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- Kanshudo's AI tutor - custom learning programs for everyone, from beginners to experts
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- Graded lessons (Beginner Lessons and Intermediate Lessons) as well as Topic Lessons (each focused on a specific topic). Check out our updated Christmas lesson to put you in a festive mood and learn how Christmas is celebrated in Japan.
- Comprehensive kanji, word, name, and Japanese grammar dictionaries (accessible all together in Quick Search)
- Optional access to over 500 in-depth kanji essays from our partner Joy o' Kanji
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Posted: 2023-12-07,
Tags:
joy-o-kanji
kanji
We are very excited to announce a new way to access in-depth kanji information: Thematic Bundles, from our partner Joy o' Kanji!
Thematic Bundles are sets of four kanji essays with a common theme. Just as a strong bond between two people produces a whole that's greater than the sum of its parts, the same applies to thoughtfully grouped kanji essays. Considering thematically related essays in one fell swoop enables you to make connections that you might otherwise miss. It illuminates the particular context for each individual essay and creates a structure for your kanji studies. Rather than casting about aimlessly for your next interesting read, you can now proceed systematically. In addition to adding new essays each week, we will be adding new bundles every month or so - a "flavor of the month."
- If color captures your imagination, start with Bundle 1 - Color Me Surprised! Here you can find four color kanji, each of which provides a different set of larger related meanings.
- If you're interested in the odd tipple, try Bundle 4 - Steeped in Saké. Learn about Japan's most famous drink, and various ways to measure and present it.
- If history is your thing, start with Bundle 6 - Prefectures Preserving the Past. These kanji all appear in modern prefecture names, but come with many layers of historical meaning.
Thematic Bundles are available for purchase at the discounted price of $8. (Four essays would normally cost $12.) You can also access bundles with essay credits, which are allocated as part of joint Kanshudo + Joy o' Kanji subscriptions.
Joy o' Kanji essays are a great way to deepen your insight into specific kanji, and bundles will introduce you to new connections and more profound meanings. Try a Thematic Bundle today!
It's been a while since we've posted an update as we've been busy working on some very exciting new features! We will have more to share over the next few weeks, but in the near future we will be bringing you three major new improvements to Kanshudo:
- Some amazing AI-powered interactive features which will add a whole new dimension to your Japanese studies
- 'Thematic Bundles' from our partner Joy o' Kanji which will group and cross-reference kanji in ways that will make them much more meaningful. The first bundle will add 'color' to your studies (quite literally ...)
- A new JLPT-focused section of Kanshudo to help and support students for the JLPT
In the meantime, we've made many updates and improvements. A quick summary follows below, but first we'd like to highlight a very special milestone: Joy o' Kanji's essay on 徹 marks the 500th essay! While that means there are still 1636 to go (!), 500 in-depth, visually appealing and linguistically intriguing explorations of 500 kanji is a huge achievement. We're especially excited that the new Thematic Bundles will bring the essays to even more kanji students. Congratulations to Joy o' Kanji's founder, Eve Kushner!
Here's a summary of updates since our last post:
7 new Topic Lessons:
Holidays by Tsunomaki Watame
NEW!
UPPER INTERMEDIATE
Hay fever Season
UPPER INTERMEDIATE
お
はなみ
花見
INTERMEDIATE
ころ vs ごろ vs ぐらい/くらい
UPPER BEGINNER
Summer in Japan 1
UPPER BEGINNER
Summer in Japan 2
UPPER BEGINNER
ほんまつてんとう
本末転倒
UPPER INTERMEDIATE
13 new grammar points:
誰もが〜
誰もが〜
でも + question
でも + question
国民 vs 国家
国民 vs 国家
その他 - そのた and そのほか
その他 - そのた and そのほか
Additionally, we made updates to 23 grammar points - you can find the most recent here.
We also added 588 new example sentences and updated another 299!
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