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2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - anon6969 - 2009-12-14
Chinese Language
2009
+ Lived in China for a year
+ Studied All http://www.ChinesePod.com Intermediate lessons
+ reached ability to have general conversations with natives
- iPod broke
- listening skills too bad to watch Chinese TV / Movies
- stopped SRS Chinese sentences
2010
* Study http://www.ChinesePod.com Upper-Intermediate lessons (followed by Adanced)
* Listen to Chinese Internet radio (http://www.live365.com/stations/mandarinradio)
* Watch Chinese TV series (find more torrents)
* Listen to Chinese songs on iPod.
* Visit Chinese tutor every 2 weeks for lesson
* Call Chinese friends on Skype and practice
* Start SRS Chinese sentences again
* Read & study Harry Potter in Chinese
* Study http://www.SlowChinese.com when new articles come out
* Find bilingual news website to study & SRS from
* Post on http:///www.Lang-8.com every Sunday
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - Nukemarine - 2009-12-14
Good thread to reference back to in a year. Wasn't there a similar one last year?
** 2009 **
OBJECTIVE MEASURES (things I can point at)
-Finished Tae Kim
-Finished Core 2k
-Reached 2600 kanji in RTK 1 and 3
-Subs2srs 5 hours of Japanese shows
-(will) Have over 3300 vocabulary sentences
SUBJECTIVE MEASURES (things I haven't tracked but just know)
-Read hundreds of pages of Japanese (Manga, Books and Scripts)
-Listened to thousands of hours of Japanese passively
-Can take part in conversations entirely in Japanese
-Sound much more natural
** 2010 **
OBJECTIVE MEASURES
-Subs2srs at least 12 more hours of Japanese shows
-Start and finish Kanzen Master 2 and maybe 1.
-Take the DLPT for Japanese
SUBJECTIVE MEASURES
-Read a lot more
-Watch a lot more (once I move back to Japan)
-Start interacting with my wife more in Japanese than English
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - Rina - 2009-12-14
2010:
-Move from my college house to another (I can't workout here, it has no space)
-Workout
-Get better at japanese
-Get better at chinese
-Learn Japan and China's geography
-Be one of the best of my class
-read more books
-play more videogames
-play videogames in chinese/japanese
-Immerse myself a lot more in a chinese and japanese environment (when I live in a big house, just for me it will be easier
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - kainzero - 2009-12-14
2009:
I took Japanese class over Summer, then discovered AJATT in the middle of August and worked through RTK up to this point. My goals this year were simple.
-Complete RTK1 before the end of this year. I have 191 left.
-Ace the 2 Japanese courses offered this year at community college. Final is today, whee.
For 2010:
-Finish UBJG and do all the sections not covered by class.
-SRS additional grammar with Japanese Core Words/Phrases, Pera Pera Penguin, and 13 Japanese Secrets.
-Vocab through Drama, Manga, and KO2001.
-Update Lang-8 weekly.
-Pass JLPT2.
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - TaylorSan - 2009-12-14
You ROCK IceCream - I'm amazed and inspired by what you, and many others have achieved in so short a time.
2009 has felt like three steps forward, two steps back, three steps forward to me. I am super disappointed in my progress, but not entirely.
2009-
*Started and Finished RTK1 - forgot 80% over a No Japanese Summer - Restarted and finished RTK1
*Learned Kana, a small but important step (Though Katakana still needs a little polish)
*Did Pimsluer Intermediate.
*Watched maybe 35 Japanese movies and 20 doramas- (yeah I used subs, but I listen to the language while I watch....)
*Over 1,000 hrs active/passive listening.
*Learned around 1,500 words (I so wish I could get that anki plug-in to work so I could get a true gauge!!!)
*Worked through 80 jpod101 lessons (SRS'ed sentences).
*Got pretty familiar with basic grammar, and the language and culture in general.
*Organized and tracked my goals and created a clear system for self discipline and clear feedback (a first in my life - huge for me!!!). Developed and attained most of the tools and techniques to succeed going into the next phase. Stock piled a decent amount of media to work with for the next phase. Found a good rhythm with anki, and created decks for developing a dynamic skill set.
*Corresponded with Japanese pen pals. Established a language partnership that developed into a wonderful friendship (one of the best things to come out of it all).
*Got out of default, and back into Uni. A huge piece because I want to go live in Japan. This would not have happened if I hadn’t become so motivated to learn Japanese.
*Learned a ton about the brain, memory, and learning (and may be teaching people at the Uni some of this in the near future, including using anki!!!).
*All around evolved as a human - Japanese played a HUGE role in it all. The skills I developed to learn Japanese will have a much larger impact on my life than just "I learned Japanese".
If I look at the Objective stuff....not so awesome. But on the subjective side of things it was a really great year. A lot of it was in the "research and development" phase, which ate up a lot of my time (and won't so much in 2010) and these forums were important for that. This is the first and only time I've participated in an internet forum, and it's been really educational and fun. I learned a lot about making realistic goals this year too.
I feel like my studies this year mostly got me really familiar with something that was completely out of my world a year before (I can freakin' read JAPANESE -not much of it but...), and prepared me to really kick some major 日本語 ass in 2010 and beyond.
2010 -
*Quadruple my vocabulary (6k +). Deck goals are to finish KO2k1, and mine the heck out of Doramas. Not sure how many as I've not started the process. I'm sure new mining idea's will occur as it goes.
*Go J-J
*Be at an intermediate+ conversational level...this is hard to define but, at least have a major improvement in natural speaking and listening skills, with the ability to express my thoughts/feelings more correctly in Japanese language patterns/terms, without having to think as much in English, about particles etc. (right now I'm about like a brain damaged 4 year old) or hunt for vocab in my mind so much. I think if I can get to this point I can have a lot of fun, and learn far more quickly in "real" Japanese.
*Be able to navigate J-web sites without total fear and anxiety.
*Watch movies/dorama without subs, and understand most of what's going on most of the time.
*Stay motivated, and consistently up the anti, month by month. Be clear, accurate, and realistic with goal setting (I do this every month - and also in 4 month "phases").
*Spend more and more time using Japanese....thinking in Japanese, writing, reading, and conversation via Skype and my local Japanese connections. I will also make more Japanese friends next year.
*EDIT- Ohh I also want to learn Japanese geography (great idea CarolinaCG)!
Non J Goals -
Get back in good physical shape - I have no doubt this will help my brain/Japanese studies too.
Ace School.
Practice Meditation.
Learn how to swim WELL.
Get my Hoops game improved a good amount.
Make a lot of art (for a future show) and polish up skills on the wheels o' steel (for future shows)!
If I can do all that I'll be pretty pleased.
The Uni I go to has no "advanced" Japanese courses, just a super limited couple of unites. The beauty of it is that I am getting an individualized degree (a mix of art, Japanese language/cultural studies, and probably psychology), and next year I will get to make my own course, using self study to get my language credits, before I go abroad (also part of the degree). It looks like I have maybe 20 months to get my Japanese as good as I can get it before I go to Japan (no it won't be "fluent" like a certain someone), and then when I'm there I'll be really studying at a higher level (enter "fluency"), hopefully with a great foundation gained through koohiiified AJATT methods. I don't think I'll worry about a JLPT type thing until I've assessed things after a year of studying in Japan.
I'm really motivated by all the info people have shared here. Seeing where I've been, where I want to go, and what you all have done has given me good feedback for the coming year!
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - Zorlee - 2009-12-14
2009 baby... Hmm, where to start..
I visited Tokyo in April and found out that the average Japanese couldn't understand even basic English. I had to point my finger at pictures in restaurants, rely on sloooooppy Japanese ( based on ローマ字 from the Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook ) or just smile/not smile to get my way around.
BUT I was simply amazed by the country, the Kanji, the people and the street musicians.
I started learning Japanese in May, doing RTK.
I started doing 10 Kanji a day, devoting just a little bit of time to Japanese.
My goal was to finish RTK within Christmas.
Well, I did that and:
- Tae Kim's guide
- KO2001
- Mined 1100 sentences with subs2srs
- Will finish All About Particles before new-year
So... It started learning Japanese as a tiny hobby. Now I've set everything else on hold until I can read, understand and talk well in Japanese.
2010 goals:
- Slowly add production cards, 5 a day
- Mine 30 sentences every day until September, around 7k sentences.
- Finish Kanzen master 2 (maybe 1 as well)
- (RTK 3 - not sure about this one...)
Hopefully I'll get accepted to one of the Universities I've applied to in Japan, and head over there in September next year. Oh yes, it's gonna be a good year for Japanese, people!
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - harhol - 2009-12-14
First of all, great thread. Reading through everyone's responses has been fascinating.
2009 Reflections
Decent start. Suffered from post-Heisig burnout for a couple of months and ended up forgetting almost everything and having to redo RTK1. But since then I've been progressing steadily and I've found a method which works for me. My vocabulary is probably larger than the average person who's been learning for five months and I'm confident with basic grammar. My main regret is not starting sooner than April 2009. I'm so envious of all you high school kids! I should have started when I was 15 or 16. Instead I convinced myself that I'd never be able to do it and put it off for years & years. Luckily I found Heisig & AJATT and finally got around to starting.
2010 Resolutions
Get to JLPT2 level (maybe take JLPT2). Increase size of vocabulary deck to 7,500. Increase size of sentence deck to 2,500. Play through and fully understand at least three video games in Japanese. Watch and fully understand at least one anime series in Japanese. Watch and fully understand at least one dorama series in Japanese. Learn to read hiragana & katakana quickly from all angles and in all sizes & fonts. Go through all entries in ADIJG & ADAJG. Learn the 200 most common family names and the 200 most common male & female given names. Use Rikaichan less. Read through The Cambridge History of Japan again. Spend a period of time longer than two weeks in Japan.
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - Blahah - 2009-12-14
Great thread
2009
A slow year. I started out with high ambitions but with little insight into my own learning. Little has come of my ambitions, except more ambitions and plenty of experience. This year I have really developed my understanding of learning, memory and my own strengths and weaknesses. I've done the following:
- Get 1550 kanji through RTK
- Loads and loads of native input, including many anime series and news podcasts
- Fiddled around with Tae Kim (but ultimately got nowhere)
- Fiddled around with various textbooks (but dropped them because they were boring as hell)
- Tried out various different systems of using Anki to achieve greatest effect, before settling on my own model and deck structure recently which I am very happy with
- Started to see significant progress very recently having started listening to Jpod101 whilst driving, then ankifying all vocab and example sentences at the next opportunity.
In the summer I took a 3 month cycling trip and didn't study any japanese on the way (this is when I stopped progressing in RTK). This really set me back, as have various other changes in my life this year (i.e. changing jobs, workin full time whilst studying full time, etc.). However, the main setback has been that I haven't persistently carried on studying.
2010
This year I really want to take some lessons from last year's failings, as well as set myself some more realistic goals:
- I'll keep studying no matter what else is going on.
- Keep watching anime, it gives me strong motivation to learn
- Work through all of Jpod101, using Anki to retain info
- Build up the motivation to read all of tae kim, ankying sentences as reminders.
- Build grammar and vocab in a structured way at first, changing to a natural method after about 6 months (i.e. go from learning the most useful stuff to learning what comes up in whatever I'm doing)
- Be ready for JLPT2 in december 2010, maybe JLPT1 if I really do well
- Read some japanese history
- Read a manga in japanese
- understand just one Rappagariya song
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - jonjimbo2000 - 2009-12-14
2009 Reflections
- finally finished RTK1 after a couple of false starts.
- sat the JLPT2 for the second time and probably failed again. But on a positive note I understood a lot more this time around and can see where I need to improve.
- started using Anki for sentences but I kind of stalled a bit at 1000 sentences.
- a lot of passive listening (but need to focus more).
- started using J-J dictionary when looking up words.
- read some manga, magazines and tried a novel (not finisheed yet).
2010 Resolutions
- read a more Japanese novels and magazines.
- listen to a lot more Japanese actively (podcasts and songs).
- watch more Japanese films and dramas.
- try to be more specific with my goals (see previous 3 resolutions).
- set myself short term and long term goals and stick to them.
- speak more and don't worry about making mistakes.
- stop focusing on JLPT and try to enjoy learning Japanese.
- use the wonderful resources that I have found thanks to this great site. (like subs2srs, Anki and Lang8)
- do something productive in Japanese everyday.
- think positively!
My main problem is my lack of focus. I go through bursts of studying followed by periods of doing absolutley nothing. This means I have to go over things again and again which is a terrible waste of time.
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - ocircle - 2009-12-15
2009: Yay I took 1 kyuu. Boo I didn't draw any comic books or make any finished games.
2010: Will I get a job with JET? Can I become conversational in Spanish, French and Mandarin? Will I ever get used to Cyrillic?
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - Nuriko - 2009-12-15
Icecream has indeed come along way in such a short time. I am very proud
I took like thrice as much time to get that far. And TaylorSan, the plugin's not working for you either? It's telling me there's a server error. Is it telling you the same thing?
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - vinniram - 2009-12-15
Zorlee Wrote:2009 baby... Hmm, where to start..I think this is a good thing - why should they have to know English well? The country is Japan after all, so I think it's great they predominantly speak only Japanese. I'm kind of relieved you've said this - others have said that the Japanese will all speak to you in english, which I think is really sad - if I wanted to speak english, I'd go to UK or US!
I visited Tokyo in April and found out that the average Japanese couldn't understand even basic English. I had to point my finger at pictures in restaurants, rely on sloooooppy Japanese ( based on ローマ字 from the Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook ) or just smile/not smile to get my way around.
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - dizmox - 2009-12-16
Although I've been dabbling in Japanese for years off and on, almost all my knowledge has been gained in since I started my RTK1 deck, which was 4.1 months ago. At that time I had a scrappy knowledge of around 700 kanji, and some basic (Genki 1-graduate standard) ability. Since then I've:
Learnt up to 2100~ kanji
Learnt up to 2100+ vocab
General aptitude for listening and reading comprehension has increased, have gone from understand the odd word in anime to a good portion of the sentences
Found a Japanese penfriend to chat to each day so I get practice outputting (plus a place to stay when I go there in March)
In two more weeks I'll have finished learning all the grammar up to JLPT1 and I'm learning about 100 new sentences per day (probably will go down to 50 when uni starts again), so I should have learnt all the material for it in a few months time, and then maybe I'll be proficient enough to take the JLPT1 test in 2010 or 11... Maybe I'll try seeing if I can stay in Japan over the summer too somehow.
Lately I've been neglecting my university course to the point where I'm only putting in the effort to not let my grades drop, so I need to put some more energy into that soon. >: This year I want to get high grades again and maybe learn to draw since it's the one thing I'd like to be able to do that my personality clashes with, (so it'd be especially challenging for me to overcome). Also I have a ton of games I need to play and my wardrobe feels incomplete.
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - TaylorSan - 2009-12-16
@Nuriko - Yeah I emailed the creator, and was told to get the Japanese support plugin. I did that and it worked for my decks that were smartfm import/pre-made cards only. It gave me no data for my other deck. Another email revealed that it was due to the style of deck it is, I use the basic model, and I was told to rename the "forward" "backward" field to "Kanji" or "Word" so it could read it (haven't tried that yet). But then the next day I got Error messages when I opened my deck, and things were buggy...so I gave up for now, and erased it (was cool while it lasted). I've been spending too much time tinkering and trying to refine my study methods going into the new year, that my 勉強 is kind of suffering a hitch....but I'll give it a go soon.....just sick to death of computer related techo-hassle...!
I'll check back tomorrow, hopefully with success.....
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - mezbup - 2009-12-16
TaylorSan Wrote:@Nuriko - Yeah I emailed the creator, and was told to get the Japanese support plugin. I did that and it worked for my decks that were smartfm import/pre-made cards only. It gave me no data for my other deck. Another email revealed that it was due to the style of deck it is, I use the basic model, and I was told to rename the "forward" "backward" field to "Kanji" or "Word" so it could read it (haven't tried that yet). But then the next day I got Error messages when I opened my deck, and things were buggy...so I gave up for now, and erased it (was cool while it lasted). I've been spending too much time tinkering and trying to refine my study methods going into the new year, that my 勉強 is kind of suffering a hitch....but I'll give it a go soon.....just sick to death of computer related techo-hassle...!Are you talking about JxPlugin?
I'll check back tomorrow, hopefully with success.....
I didn't change my deck at all, it just worked.
The model name for my deck is "Japanese" underneath that the "tag" reads "Basic". The template says "Forward" and "Reverse" (of which i'm only using foward) and on the cards the fields are set as "Expression, Reading, Meaning".
Works for all my decks.
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - nest0r - 2009-12-16
TaylorSan Wrote:@Nuriko - Yeah I emailed the creator, and was told to get the Japanese support plugin. I did that and it worked for my decks that were smartfm import/pre-made cards only. It gave me no data for my other deck. Another email revealed that it was due to the style of deck it is, I use the basic model, and I was told to rename the "forward" "backward" field to "Kanji" or "Word" so it could read it (haven't tried that yet). But then the next day I got Error messages when I opened my deck, and things were buggy...so I gave up for now, and erased it (was cool while it lasted). I've been spending too much time tinkering and trying to refine my study methods going into the new year, that my 勉強 is kind of suffering a hitch....but I'll give it a go soon.....just sick to death of computer related techo-hassle...!Sorry if you mentioned this already, but after installing all the .jp/x plugins and not having any luck, did you try creating an empty deck and importing the cards you want to analyze? I had an old deck that didn't work till after I did all of that. Oh and yeah I had to make sure all the data I wanted to analyze was on a different side. Can't remember which, just tinkered a bit. After that and I got the info, I was so fed up I uninstalled/deleted.
I'll check back tomorrow, hopefully with success.....
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - esgrove - 2009-12-16
2009
- Recovered from failing the 1kyuu and breaking up with my American girlfriend on the same day (technically December 2008)
- Went out and talked to a lot more Japanese people
- Switched from Mnemosyne to Anki
- Got 2 Japanese girlfriends (sequentially, not concurrently) who speak no English
- Kept up with Anki reviews but added almost no new sentences (wow, a whole year!)
- Read a TON of manga, mostly with no dictionary
- Changed my phone, ipod, PC, and all programs to Japanese (as per AJATT's advice)
- Changed some of them back because it was annoying (PC especially)
- Bought a PS3 to play Japanese games (but my annoying friends keep lending me imported English games that I have to play)
- Moved to a bigger city and made 2 Japanese-only friends
- Got Sky Perfect and watched a lot more Japanese TV
- Listened to a lot of Jpop, and realized that Japanesepod 101 is often more annoying than helpful
- Joined mixi and Lang-8
- Bought an iPhone to study Japanese, then lost it a month later
- Did RtK3 (will finish it this week)
Wow, a pretty lazy year. I didn't improve significantly.
2010
- Break up with Japanese girlfriend (if you knew her, you'd know why)
- Finish 2kyuu SRS sentences (still backologged)
- Learn all vocabulary through 1kyuu
- Finish Kanzen Master 1
- Read a lot of books in Japanese (and mine the damn sentences this time)
- Immerse myself more in TV and video games
- Pass 1kyuu (July)
- Learn how to speak correctly
- Quit my English-teaching job and do something with more freedom
- Save money
- Visit home
- Go to grad school somehow
I guess I'm ambitiously aiming to finish studying Japanese and move on to just being in Japanese. The stuff about my girlfriends is personal, but it has a tremendous impact on my life.
*Sinde note: Does anyone have any advice about learning massive ammounts of vocabulary? I would like to use a good pre-made deck or database. The memorization is no problem, but the source is important.
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - vinniram - 2009-12-16
whoa man you get around a lot
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - aphasiac - 2009-12-17
esgrove Wrote:*Sinde note: Does anyone have any advice about learning massive ammounts of vocabulary? I would like to use a good pre-made deck or database. The memorization is no problem, but the source is important.Smarf.fm Core 6000 seems logical. Comes with audio, and you can automatically import into Anki.
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - brianobush - 2009-12-17
Not really resolutions for 2009, since I started in March, but these were at least planned. NOTE: I already had basic Japanese grammar before starting this year.
2009:
(Restarted studying Japanese after I found Heisig's RTK)
-Completed RTK March-June.
-Completed みんなの日本語 I, added sentences from core 2000
-Started KO2001; going slow now
2010:
-Introduce more fun in studying:
+Start reading Doreamon comics (all of them!)
+Watch more J-dramas
-Finish KO2001 (vol 1, 2)
-Finish みんなの日本語 II
-Convert RTK deck to japanese keywords
-Talk with my family more in Japanese (production)
-Sit and pass JLPT3
-Mountain bike more
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - TaylorSan - 2009-12-17
I deleted and re downloaded Japanese support and Jx - It won't work. It must have something to do with my deck. My first "Master Deck" had a mix of stuff, some of it from smartfm. A few days ago I decided to reorganize the decks, and exported all the smartfm cards into my "Import Deck" which has the smartfm version of KO2k1. Also transfered were the production versions of the cards that I make afer they reach a due date of 2.5+ months. It was working in the smartfm decks, but not the "Master" deck, but once I imported the cards it wouldn't work at all. During all this, I emailed the dude about it not working in my other deck, and got this reply -
"Probably. JxPlugin tries to find Japanese words or Kanji inside the Expression Field of the Japanese model....or inside fields caled "Kanji" or "Word", etc...
There is no way for JxPlugin to guess that your fact contains a Kanji/word if your fields are called "Forwadd", "Backward" or any other such name
The solution is to rename the relevant field to Expression"
Don't know how to do that...
....Ok this is wierd. It works now in the import decks (I have one that's single vocab version) but not the "Master". The first time I try it I get error messages. Try it again, and it pops up, but with 0's in the data.
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - Tobberoth - 2009-12-17
TaylorSan, if you don't know how to change the names of fields, how did you change them in the first place? If you have a PROPER Japanese deck, it will by default come with the correct fields. If you're NOT using a PROPER Japanese deck, you shouldn't expect any of those plugins to work.
To get a proper Japanese deck:
Download the Japanese support plugin.
Create a new deck.
Go into deck properties.
Add model -> Japanese.
Remove basic model.
There you go.
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - TaylorSan - 2009-12-17
The Deck had Basic as the default when I made it originally.
EDIT - Just erased a long post - I'm getting it figured out right now.....
EDIT2- After a bunch of problems, (about 2 hrs worth of messing around) I got it to basically work. At some point I had to delete the files that I had made when exporting tagged cards from "master" to the smartfm deck - I noticed that it HAD worked in the smartfm deck - then wouldn't after the export/import.
Then I fixed it in the "Master" deck. I had to edit the name in Deck Properties => Model Properties to "Expressions" - But then it was still not working....I tried a bunch of stuff, and finally pulled the deck out of anki, reloaded it, and now it works...for the most part. I have to open the smartfm deck first, then switch - If I just open the "Master" deck first I get error.
EDIT 3- Just got a reply from the man about this -
"This is because of the infamous "double click on an Anki deck breaks JxPlugin" bug : it's because double clicking on an Anki Deck bypasses the loadDeck function which initialises eDeck.
If you open Anki...and then load a Deck, you shouldn't have problem"
He says he will fix it when he has time.
I've had quirky problems before, that I could only guess had something to due with the file folders. I used to have a problem getting the audio to play when I switched decks...I'd have to close anki, go open the media deck Finder, then reopen anki. It was a pain, but I was too lazy to write anki about it....but it seems to have fixed it's self....
Sorry to hijack - return to resolutions!
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - esgrove - 2009-12-18
aphasiac Wrote:Smarf.fm Core 6000 seems logical. Comes with audio, and you can automatically import into Anki.Wow, I've been aware of this thing for a long time, but I never actually went there, I guess due to some cynically paradoxical idea that if I hadn't been there it wasn't worth going to.
I was amazed at how nice the website was!
I didn't know learning a language could be so stylistically impressive. I've been used to my anki deck's complete lack of bells and whistles.
Even though most of it is redundant information, I'm going to start from the begining of the core 6,000 just because it looks so cool and I don't want to miss anything.
Thank you for this suggestion.
2009 Reflections + 2010 Resolutions - Nuriko - 2009-12-28
Bump to remind people to make resolutions