一人ですか?

[xhilononi234]

時時、 私はかなのことばを覚えません、 でも、かんじ を 覚えます。一人ですか。

[Sairana]

ひとり

[AJBryant]

Are you saying that sometimes you "don't remember" kana words?

Although we say "don't remember" in English, 覚えません is an active verb meaning "don't memorize" (i.e., don't learn). For the idiomatic "don't remember" (i.e., "forget") you should use 忘れます.


Tony

[Oyaji]

By 「一人ですか？」 are you trying to say, "Am I the only one?"? If so, 「私だけですか」 or less formally 「私だけ？」 are more common.

[Yudan Taiteki]

That is not an uncommon experience; IMO, though, very frequent occurrences of "knowing" a kanji or word without knowing how to read it is a symptom of bad study methods; usually stemming from focusing too much on associating kanji with English words and not enough reading practice. In other words, someone may learn 午後 as ごご and "noon", but if there's no reading practice being done, the link in your mind to the already known English word will tend to be stronger than the link to the "meaningless" syllables of Japanese.

[xhilononi234]

Thanks for the help. I was wondering if I was the only one who remembers what words mean in kanji better than in kana. Also, I find it easier to read the words that I know when they are in kanji rather than kana. This is probably due to the lack of spaces in writing so, the kanji make it eaiser to recognize words. For example: 二時ごごにほにゃで日本語の本を読みました 。vs.
にじごごに ほんやでにほんごのほんをよみました 。(I don't know the Kanji for "honya" yet, except for the fact that 本 is the first one in the word, so I don't use it.)
I know that sometimes when writing in pure kana, some people will put spaces in but there are no spaces in my textbook. So, I find the first one eaiser to read out loud and eaiser to understand. By the way, is ごご in the right place? I've always wondered if ごご/ごぜん come before or after the

[Sairana]

Oh goodness, is that what he meant? I was trying to figure out how he could write a few sentences and forget how to write ひとり in kana. 0.o It never occurred to me he was asking if he was the "only one". *hides*

[xhilononi234]

Sorry about the misunderstanding. I'm pretty new to Japanese. I joined this site a while ago but only in the past month have I really begun to start to pay attention to my studies. I finally got my first lesson-type book a few weeks ago (before, I had kanji books and verb book. Using just those didn't work well...at all )

[jenl]

先の質問：「午後の２時」と思います。　

本屋で読みましたか。買いませんか。本屋と図書館が同じじゃないですから。。。　；）

どんな本が好きですか。私、ファンタジー小説が好きです。