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    Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig?
Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn...

That's exactly the mentality I'm talking about. You're heavily biased in favor of kanji study. Not all other people are the same way. There are people that just literally don't accept the idea that th...
wareya Remembering the Kanji 61 3,929 2016-06-13, 3:45 am
    Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig?
Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn...

You must remember that different communities are strongly biased towards or against different goals, so people who are about efficiency or learning as much as possible before they burn out will totall...
wareya Remembering the Kanji 61 3,929 2016-06-13, 2:45 am
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: RE: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

In EPWING mode, can there be a way to quit processing an entry after a line matching a regex has matched? Kenkyusha has a lot of "related term" text that heavily bloats the entry, and you can filter ...
wareya Learning resources 859 243,657 2016-06-13, 1:25 am
    Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)
Post: RE: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of ...

Krashen said "If you give people enough comprehensible input, i+1 is there. Automatically. You don't have to worry". It's not like you're on the wrong track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdoDTXwZV...
wareya Learning resources 204 74,904 2016-05-10, 9:58 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: RE: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

I think I saw that error on some addons even before signing happened.
wareya Learning resources 859 243,657 2015-12-21, 2:34 pm
    Thread: Regarding Anki word recalling
Post: Regarding Anki word recalling

Do you have anything constructive to say? The first outright rude post between me and him was his second post on this page. In terms of content as well, I'm the one that's on the defensive here, consi...
wareya Learning resources 48 5,508 2015-11-13, 1:57 am
    Thread: Regarding Anki word recalling
Post: Regarding Anki word recalling

>trying to provoke someone who has just said they are done with the thread Insincerity isn't met like that, and I'm not provoking them. >perhaps you might want to clarify your position And wh...
wareya Learning resources 48 5,508 2015-11-13, 1:02 am
    Thread: Regarding Anki word recalling
Post: Regarding Anki word recalling

As long as you don't patronize me or tell me that I believe things I don't believe, I don't care what you do. I would talk nicely about flashcards if you were to respond to what I say instead of what ...
wareya Learning resources 48 5,508 2015-11-12, 11:15 pm
    Thread: Regarding Anki word recalling
Post: Regarding Anki word recalling

>Anecdotes are NOT empirical evidence for either of our positions. How is "there exist cases where it's bad" not empirical evidence for bad cases existing? >If you have a problem having safe a...
wareya Learning resources 48 5,508 2015-11-12, 9:44 pm
    Thread: Regarding Anki word recalling
Post: Regarding Anki word recalling

>No, I asked you a serious question Yes, you asked me a serious question, which was loaded with possibilities of ineptitude. Now, after confirming that I was "doing it right", you're continuing to...
wareya Learning resources 48 5,508 2015-11-12, 6:44 am
    Thread: Regarding Anki word recalling
Post: Regarding Anki word recalling

>You keep making this statement when several people (myself included) have already said that single-word vocab works badly for them. I didn't say it didn't work badly; I said that it works. >I...
wareya Learning resources 48 5,508 2015-11-12, 1:42 am
    Thread: Regarding Anki word recalling
Post: Regarding Anki word recalling

Splitting up the points using email type quotes because I feel the need to respond to the points individually. Apologies in advance if this is confusing to anyone trying to follow this line of convers...
wareya Learning resources 48 5,508 2015-11-12, 1:04 am
    Thread: Regarding Anki word recalling
Post: Regarding Anki word recalling

sholum Wrote:I'm curious as to whether the cards you used with sentences on the front were formatted to properly ask for a word or if the formatting allowed you to more easily look at the sentence tha...
wareya Learning resources 48 5,508 2015-11-11, 8:06 pm
    Thread: Regarding Anki word recalling
Post: Regarding Anki word recalling

That's the reasons for sentence decks, not for sentences on the front of word decks. Sentence decks have their place, but I really cannot learn words from word decks that have sentences on the front; ...
wareya Learning resources 48 5,508 2015-11-11, 6:26 am
    Thread: Regarding Anki word recalling
Post: Regarding Anki word recalling

s0apgun Wrote:Don't have sentences on the front of the card. This. I don't remember a thing from my sentence-on-front vocab deck.
wareya Learning resources 48 5,508 2015-11-10, 3:45 pm
    Thread: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW
Post: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW

http://i.imgur.com/3LfCqJB.png Have: left (14px) Want: right (13px) or even one pixel further smaller (12px)
wareya General discussion 65 7,880 2015-11-04, 9:38 pm
    Thread: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW
Post: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW

On desktop the post non-quote content font is a little large, it makes long posts take up more unnecessary space.
wareya General discussion 65 7,880 2015-11-04, 8:16 pm
    Thread: Raw manga difficult to find
Post: Raw manga difficult to find

p2p is still the king of japanese media piracy afaik, perfect dark is what I see being the second stop after I see people exhaust their first option (which is private DDLs) I don't see talking about ...
wareya Learning resources 11 7,797 2015-10-28, 3:23 pm
    Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論)
Post: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論)

The real problem is that you can't use tone markers because japanese has pitch accent rather than being utterly tonal. Tone is phonemic, but different accents are totally different systems, yet still ...
wareya The Japanese language 121 12,085 2015-10-28, 1:01 am
    Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論)
Post: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論)

The spacing conventions for pure kana are generally either "where short pauses in speech would be" or "after particles"
wareya The Japanese language 121 12,085 2015-10-27, 2:28 pm
    Thread: Need help with Japanese subtitles
Post: Need help with Japanese subtitles

A mistake I made on that site was downloading TV subs for the BD content I had. Whoops. There were added and moved cuts, so it was virtually impossible to simply retime the subs without knowing what w...
wareya Learning resources 8 896 2015-10-15, 6:20 pm
    Thread: Vocab deck or just pure sentences?
Post: Vocab deck or just pure sentences?

Belittlement fight, gogogo!
wareya General discussion 58 7,181 2015-10-09, 10:49 am
    Thread: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW
Post: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW

ファブリス Wrote:There is only one user registered with your email , both here and on the converted forum I linked above. I tested the Lost Password functionality with an old account on the converted MyBB ...
wareya General discussion 65 7,880 2015-10-07, 12:01 am
    Thread: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW
Post: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW

I tried signing in but I can't remember which of the hundreds of passwords I have that I decided to use here, so I went to recovery. My email over here seems to be set properly.
wareya General discussion 65 7,880 2015-10-06, 9:10 am
    Thread: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW
Post: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW

Asking for an email with password reset instructions doesn't seem to work.
wareya General discussion 65 7,880 2015-10-06, 12:34 am
    Thread: The ultimate JAPANESE serif and sans-serif web-safe font stack
Post: The ultimate JAPANESE serif and sans-serif web-saf...

Aha, so my system's fallback font is broken! Interesting, I'll have to figure out how to configure that.
wareya The Japanese language 7 1,705 2015-09-25, 9:08 am
    Thread: The ultimate JAPANESE serif and sans-serif web-safe font stack
Post: The ultimate JAPANESE serif and sans-serif web-saf...

The terms for japanese typefaces tend to vary a lot. The only consistent borders I can find are between Mincho, Gothic, and Kaisho... But it turns out that almost every display font is Mincho or Gothi...
wareya The Japanese language 7 1,705 2015-09-25, 8:10 am
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Trou...

Some keyboards don't have numpads.
wareya Learning resources 448 98,411 2015-08-26, 4:12 am
    Thread: Where's Khatzumoto?
Post: Where's Khatzumoto?

Hey, this forum actually has good administration. Go figure! Semi-on-topic: I never kept track of the AJATT blog or anything. The closest relation I have to the matter is being subscribed to an AJATT...
wareya Off topic 529 102,628 2015-08-26, 4:10 am
    Thread: What on Earth is this thing?
Post: What on Earth is this thing?

Kanji and hanzi work differently. It can be considered a real hanzi, just nonstandard.
wareya The Japanese language 25 2,943 2015-08-11, 3:34 am