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Thread: Some questions about international copyright Post: Some questions about international copyright Actually, downloading anything that isn't put on the web by someone who possesses the copyright and opens it to download for all areas is basically illegal. Manga, TV series, anime, etc. This includes... |
astridtops | Learning resources | 2 | 986 | 2007-04-22, 2:19 am | ||
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Thread: How hard is it to get back? Post: How hard is it to get back? I've had a pause between doing the first 900 and the rest of about 18 months. I found I basically had to relearn almost all kanji from 600 onwards, but on the first 500 I still got decent recall rates... |
astridtops | Remembering the Kanji | 10 | 2,224 | 2007-04-18, 11:13 am | ||
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Thread: Any women over 40 studying Kanji. Is it possible? Post: Any women over 40 studying Kanji. Is it possible? I'm a woman, I'm over 40. Before I found this site, I had done 900 kanji, but that was 1,5 years ago. When I restarted here, I finished RTK1 in half a year, and I'm now halfway RTK3. I could do it fas... |
astridtops | Remembering the Kanji | 6 | 3,344 | 2007-04-08, 3:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Need Advice with Direction of Study for the year Post: Need Advice with Direction of Study for the year In the fluency vs mechanics debate: Before I started Japanese, I learned English, German and French as second languages (native Dutch speaker). All of them I started learning the mechanical way, and ... |
astridtops | General discussion | 31 | 8,287 | 2007-04-05, 10:42 am | ||
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Thread: 花 - flower primitive/radical... Post: 花 - flower primitive/radical... I used 'flower' throughout RTK1, but I had to abandon that when I started having loads and loads of plants and flower kanji in RTK3. I then sometimes substituted 'plant' for flower, and that worked ju... |
astridtops | The Japanese language | 10 | 5,928 | 2007-04-01, 1:50 am | ||
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Thread: Anybody doing calligraphy ? 書道 ? Post: Anybody doing calligraphy ? 書道 ? I now have 氷 in lesson six, which is of course very similar to 永 in terms of difficulty. But I'm actually glad my teacher started me off with getting a firm grip on simple horizontal and vertical line... |
astridtops | The Japanese language | 28 | 14,005 | 2007-03-10, 4:07 am | ||
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Thread: Retention rate after finishing RTK1 Post: Retention rate after finishing RTK1 My pattern seems to be very similar to that of ziggr. I mostly fail cards from the last stack, and my success rate fluctuates from 75% to 95%. Sometimes the difference has to do with a more difficult ... |
astridtops | Remembering the Kanji | 7 | 1,830 | 2007-03-08, 11:36 am | ||
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Thread: Are you directly responsible for another person now using Heisig? Post: Are you directly responsible for another person no... I've recommended the method to a number of people, and some might have taken it up later, but only one is actually on this site because of me. |
astridtops | Remembering the Kanji | 5 | 1,471 | 2007-03-03, 4:28 am | ||
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Thread: Get the cash out! Post: Get the cash out! niktok Wrote:BTW, making sweeping generalizations about a culture being competitve is a little funny when I know of many european sporting events at which people get killed by riled up fans of the opp... |
astridtops | Off topic | 20 | 4,858 | 2007-02-21, 4:06 pm | ||
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Thread: Get the cash out! Post: Get the cash out! I think the whole motivation to see your name high or have a different way to distinguish yourself is very culture dependent. It may work for a competitive culture like the US, but personally, I feel ... |
astridtops | Off topic | 20 | 4,858 | 2007-02-20, 4:29 am | ||
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Thread: Get the cash out! Post: Get the cash out! Uhm, Fabrice, of course you can get a donation. However, you talked about finding other ways of funding the site: can I make two requests? Please, please stay away from agressive pop-up sellers that t... |
astridtops | Off topic | 20 | 4,858 | 2007-02-19, 3:43 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" thread Post: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" threa... I'm looking forward to anything you can share. I especially welcome any new insights on how to make the RTK3 tree and flower kanji stick... Part of my difficulty is of course that many of those names ... |
astridtops | Remembering the Kanji | 93 | 58,967 | 2007-02-15, 8:21 am | ||
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Thread: Is this the right way to go about it? Post: Is this the right way to go about it? Personally, I feel there is nothing wrong with failing a new kanji 3 or 4 times. I've gone through RTK1 doing just that. It all depends on whether you prefer quick and dirty with large batches (and fa... |
astridtops | Remembering the Kanji | 31 | 7,094 | 2007-01-11, 2:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Anybody doing calligraphy ? 書道 ? Post: Anybody doing calligraphy ? 書道 ? I just did my very first calligraphy yesterday, as our sensei decided the first lesson of the new year should be spent on something else than language learning. It was great! I took an immense liking... |
astridtops | The Japanese language | 28 | 14,005 | 2007-01-11, 9:39 am | ||
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Thread: Your favourite story by someone else Post: Your favourite story by someone else Have you ever got the experience where you selected one story, and then another one that you didn't select succesfully got stuck in your head instead? Every time I now see 'benefit', I start singing ... |
astridtops | Remembering the Kanji | 61 | 24,721 | 2007-01-06, 8:47 am | ||
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Thread: After 1: 2 or 3 first? Post: After 1: 2 or 3 first? mantixen Wrote:I've gotten about as far as you in the book, but on principle I don't share a story unless it's gotten my kanji to the fifth stack, whereupon I can safely say it's a memorable story for... |
astridtops | Remembering the Kanji | 24 | 7,030 | 2007-01-04, 12:49 pm | ||
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Thread: After 1: 2 or 3 first? Post: After 1: 2 or 3 first? ファブリス Wrote:I would have thought you would have wanted to give rtk3 a priority. I don't know just how many primitives that appear as kanji themselves are used in RtK3, but I'm guessing that by review... |
astridtops | Remembering the Kanji | 24 | 7,030 | 2007-01-04, 12:43 pm | ||
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Thread: After 1: 2 or 3 first? Post: After 1: 2 or 3 first? I've started RTK3 after RTK1 (not because I need it for my Japanese at this point, but because I like learning kanj). The kanji themselves aren't always hard to learn, since you've learned most of the... |
astridtops | Remembering the Kanji | 24 | 7,030 | 2007-01-01, 5:24 am | ||
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Thread: How many kanji per day? Post: How many kanji per day? When I was in RTK1, I used to keep my stack number 1 around 300 total, so that every day I'd have to do about 100 kanji from that stack. I adjusted the number of new kanji each day to replace the ones... |
astridtops | Remembering the Kanji | 19 | 5,751 | 2006-12-19, 11:21 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Quote:mantixen, welcome and congrats on completing RtK! Good luck with RtK3! Well I think you're going to have a bunch of stories in case of writer's block thanks to astridtops's 拓 "clearing the land"... |
astridtops | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,651 | 2006-12-12, 12:20 pm | ||
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Thread: What makes a kanji "difficult" to the Japanese? Post: What makes a kanji "difficult" to the Japanese? Or, in addition to the reasons KANJI already mentioned, maybe the Japanese think of the moment the particular kanji was presented to them in their own educational system. According to one of the Appen... |
astridtops | The Japanese language | 12 | 10,576 | 2006-11-26, 8:12 am | ||
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Thread: RTK3: easy kanji Post: RTK3: easy kanji JimmySeal Wrote:astridtops Wrote:For me, the motivation to do RTK3 came from the compound for chair, 椅子 (いす). いす is a very common word, but the kanji would very rarely appear without furigana, and cer... |
astridtops | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 19,282 | 2006-11-14, 12:43 pm | ||
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Thread: RTK3: easy kanji Post: RTK3: easy kanji For now (given the mostly lack of story contributors), I suspect that only a handful people are doing RTK3 kanji at the moment. Not nearly enough for analysis, as you already suspected. Most people wh... |
astridtops | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 19,282 | 2006-11-11, 3:20 am | ||
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Thread: Kana or Romaji Post: Kana or Romaji wrightak Wrote:So whether you're learning English using katakana, or learning Japanese using romaji, there are lots of rules that you have to learn in order to get the pronunciation right. As you said... |
astridtops | The Japanese language | 69 | 17,364 | 2006-10-12, 11:05 am | ||
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Thread: Kana or Romaji Post: Kana or Romaji The only benefit I notice myself from using kana over romaji is that it forced me to drill the kana into my head very thoroughly. Otherwise, it's still a lot slower to use kana instead of romaji for m... |
astridtops | The Japanese language | 69 | 17,364 | 2006-10-09, 10:34 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Torrent Sites (music, anime, etc.) Post: Japanese Torrent Sites (music, anime, etc.) I should point out, for people who actually care about legal issues, that at least some of these sites contain illegal materials. Boxtorrents for instance features blatant DVD rips of anime that have... |
astridtops | Learning resources | 27 | 131,571 | 2006-10-08, 2:34 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Yay, congratulations! |
astridtops | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,651 | 2006-10-08, 2:11 am | ||
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Thread: RTK 2 methodologies Post: RTK 2 methodologies I think both methods might work, but it might depend on individual preferences. As for the kanji chains, I do reasonably well on the 550 kanji I've chained so far. At first, I was careful to include s... |
astridtops | Remembering the Kanji | 74 | 63,896 | 2006-10-07, 8:18 am | ||
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Thread: Kana or Romaji Post: Kana or Romaji Serge Wrote:astridtops Wrote:I'm currenty in a 4th year group that uses kana, but doesn't use kanji. Astrid, did I get this right and can anyone be studying Japanese for FOUR years without using Kanji... |
astridtops | The Japanese language | 69 | 17,364 | 2006-10-07, 7:57 am | ||
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Thread: Kana or Romaji Post: Kana or Romaji Serge Wrote:astridtops Wrote:I'm currenty in a 4th year group that uses kana, but doesn't use kanji. Astrid, did I get this right and can anyone be studying Japanese for FOUR years without using Kanji... |
astridtops | The Japanese language | 69 | 17,364 | 2006-10-07, 7:55 am | ||
