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Thread: SRS and Einstein's definition of insanity... Post: SRS and Einstein's definition of insanity... But you WILL lose the keywords, because they'll no longer be important, so your brain discards them. And you WILL make the readings visible at some point, because Kanji don't only have one, and some a... |
andikaze | Remembering the Kanji | 80 | 12,398 | 2014-05-19, 8:36 am | ||
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Thread: What's your favorite kanji? Post: What's your favorite kanji? I like 海 and 夢 |
andikaze | General discussion | 28 | 4,425 | 2014-05-18, 9:33 am | ||
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Thread: SRS and Einstein's definition of insanity... Post: SRS and Einstein's definition of insanity... There's no need for 2200 perfect mnemonics and perfect recall. The book is made to enable you to learn the Kanji first, initially. You won't stop there. You'll then learn words using the Kanji, which ... |
andikaze | Remembering the Kanji | 80 | 12,398 | 2014-05-18, 9:27 am | ||
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Thread: Looking for tips for my japan trip Post: Looking for tips for my japan trip Congrats, you planned your trip in the middle of the rainy season. I won't tell you where to go to have fun, but I'd advise you to bring an umbrella (or get one of those transparent 500円 ones from an... |
andikaze | Off topic | 24 | 5,685 | 2014-05-15, 11:18 am | ||
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Thread: SRS and Einstein's definition of insanity... Post: SRS and Einstein's definition of insanity... My experience has always been, that some words stick at the first encounter. Others take lots and lots of encounters, sometimes another piece of knowledge is needed, and then one day it clicks and the... |
andikaze | Remembering the Kanji | 80 | 12,398 | 2014-05-15, 11:12 am | ||
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Thread: SRS and Einstein's definition of insanity... Post: SRS and Einstein's definition of insanity... I would like to add something to the topic, not directly related to the Einstein quote and SRSing. The human brain is a biochemical computer of high complexity, the mechanics are only known partially... |
andikaze | Remembering the Kanji | 80 | 12,398 | 2014-05-14, 1:35 pm | ||
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Thread: SRS and Einstein's definition of insanity... Post: SRS and Einstein's definition of insanity... Einsteins quote is not even remotely discussable, it states a fact: Repeating something under the same circumstances while expecting a different result is stupid. I don't see why this would apply to ... |
andikaze | Remembering the Kanji | 80 | 12,398 | 2014-05-14, 1:23 pm | ||
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Thread: I could have talked to a few Japanese guys today. Post: I could have talked to a few Japanese guys today. poblequadrat Wrote:Don't know how things are in Canada, but where I'm from it's a bit of a no-no to talk to strangers at all, more so on the bus or the metro! Even asking for directions is a bit viole... |
andikaze | Off topic | 37 | 7,138 | 2014-05-12, 8:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Normal Japanese porn for learning.... Post: Normal Japanese porn for learning.... Yeah, I'm damn slow myself. Speaking and listening is all fine, but reading is a really tough beast. Then again, I'm not sure it matters if you do 10 games a 50 hours or one a 500. I played MuvLuv Alt... |
andikaze | Learning resources | 52 | 16,425 | 2014-05-07, 12:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Normal Japanese porn for learning.... Post: Normal Japanese porn for learning.... VNs are my preferred method right now, too. I'm playing あやかしびと and plan to do Clannad after this. I played Clannad some years ago with an English patch and I'm also a great fan of the anime. It's not ... |
andikaze | Learning resources | 52 | 16,425 | 2014-05-07, 3:38 am | ||
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Thread: Input less, output more Post: Input less, output more Well what the guy explains in the video is actually what Michel Thomas does, so it can indeed be applied to language learning, but I guess he was talking more about learning in general. |
andikaze | Learning resources | 11 | 1,850 | 2014-05-04, 12:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Input less, output more Post: Input less, output more He doesn't talk about ANKI-esque things at all. He means you should be able to "say in your own words" and to produce your own stuff after a concept has been explained and examples have been given. Sa... |
andikaze | Learning resources | 11 | 1,850 | 2014-05-03, 6:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Completion rate Post: Completion rate The 700-something? Well yea, there's a point where I think that perfectionism only gets me so far.. there are diminishing returns after the 常用 (actually, earlier, after roughly 1700 or so of the most ... |
andikaze | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 6,957 | 2014-04-29, 11:04 am | ||
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Thread: Completion rate Post: Completion rate No, it's "Heisigs RTK 6th with stories". I worked on it as I went along. Added a "Japanese" field, decided on one of the two stories, made the kanji keyword bold and the primitive keywords italic/unde... |
andikaze | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 6,957 | 2014-04-28, 7:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Completion rate Post: Completion rate Yea, I heard that already, some important primitives such as 門 are yet to come. I know I should force myself through the rest ;) It's just so boring ^^ |
andikaze | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 6,957 | 2014-04-26, 8:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Completion rate Post: Completion rate I started with Pimsleur and Michel Thomas, then did JapanesePOD, looked up grammar on sites like "Timwerx", chatted via first Twitter, then Facebook. I also watched a lot of anime and dorama, with and... |
andikaze | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 6,957 | 2014-04-24, 7:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Completion rate Post: Completion rate I didn't only learn basic Japanese before Kanji, I spoke fluently before I started with Heisig. So it's not that one has to go one route or the other, but looking back, I could have saved a lot of tim... |
andikaze | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 6,957 | 2014-04-23, 8:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Completion rate Post: Completion rate I think Heisig means "Kanji learning material", as in books with other order of Kanji etc. It doesn't harm to learn the language tho. Even if you get words like 食べる from the very beginning, while the ... |
andikaze | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 6,957 | 2014-04-23, 8:30 pm | ||
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Thread: Completion rate Post: Completion rate And yea, my ANKI cards look like this: [Image: http://s14.directupload.net/images/140424/gq9iadxy.jpg] |
andikaze | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 6,957 | 2014-04-23, 6:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Completion rate Post: Completion rate I know vocab and grammar already. It takes time to get to a point where you can read stuff aimed at native speakers, but you'll get there. If you only do RTK and NO Japanese at all, I think you're wa... |
andikaze | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 6,957 | 2014-04-23, 6:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Normal Japanese porn for learning.... Post: Normal Japanese porn for learning.... VNs are like Manga or Anime, and that's the point. There's so much diversity, there are all kinds of topics, settings, a lot of very different Japanese. Take "Little Busters", for example, or "Kira ... |
andikaze | Learning resources | 52 | 16,425 | 2014-04-23, 6:44 pm | ||
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Thread: Completion rate Post: Completion rate Don't worry about that. It was the same thing for me, and I just stopped adding new Kanji by the time I hit 1600 or so (only doing the reps) and started to read. I still didn't add anything new. Time ... |
andikaze | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 6,957 | 2014-04-23, 6:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Reverse translation purists Post: Reverse translation purists It depends on so much, you know. The context, the mood, the degree of emotion. I can picture it as おい、キサマ、あっち行け or as ほっとけよ. Japanese and English are not 1:1 translatable, but the same thing can be sa... |
andikaze | General discussion | 18 | 4,186 | 2014-04-23, 9:49 am | ||
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Thread: New guy with a question about learning to listen and understand Post: New guy with a question about learning to listen a... JapanesePOD, LingQ, VNs, as long as you have the written word with the audio in a format so you can listen to the same thing repeatedly and improve, you'll be fine. It won't take long to learn to pars... |
andikaze | The Japanese language | 24 | 4,748 | 2014-04-23, 7:16 am | ||
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Thread: Normal Japanese porn for learning.... Post: Normal Japanese porn for learning.... Well, eroge do have porn in them. They're not exactly porn videos, but if you're looking for such stuff, just go to YP and search for "japanese", you'll surely find some stuff with some lines. But is... |
andikaze | Learning resources | 52 | 16,425 | 2014-04-23, 7:11 am | ||
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Thread: Reverse translation purists Post: Reverse translation purists Aikynaro Wrote:Can you elaborate on that? I've seen 'f*ck off' translated to 'ふざけない' ... and that's really not the same thing at all. I'm not sure how to express the same idea in Japanese. Same with ... |
andikaze | General discussion | 18 | 4,186 | 2014-04-23, 7:02 am | ||
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Thread: Normal Japanese porn for learning.... Post: Normal Japanese porn for learning.... I found G線上の魔王 and あやかしびと very good for learning. They're both adult games. No tentacle rape, I'm not interested in such crap, and I skip the H scenes most of the time, because the stories of these ga... |
andikaze | Learning resources | 52 | 16,425 | 2014-04-21, 5:50 am | ||
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Thread: Normal Japanese porn for learning.... Post: Normal Japanese porn for learning.... I think you can learn more from the "Dirty Japanese" books than from porn, but H-Manga might provide some new stuff. Also, easy anime. |
andikaze | Learning resources | 52 | 16,425 | 2014-04-18, 3:41 am | ||
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Thread: Technique for Listening Practice with native material? Post: Technique for Listening Practice with native mater... 1) Open ears 2) ? 3) Profit What would you need a "technique" for? |
andikaze | The Japanese language | 13 | 3,249 | 2014-04-17, 7:46 am | ||
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Thread: Two questions Post: Two questions I loaded the deck I'm doing, do my repetitions with my new cards set to zero and just add as many as I wanna learn via custom study every day. Spending more time with ANKI itself than the cards doesn'... |
andikaze | Off topic | 30 | 5,488 | 2014-04-17, 7:43 am | ||
