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    Thread: "Due cards" are not as frequent...?
Post: "Due cards" are not as frequent...?

If you do an equal number of cards every day than it is weird as it should increase every time. However if you do different amounts each day, particularly if they are largely different, than it is pos...
genini1 Remembering the Kanji 6 1,718 2011-02-03, 12:24 am
    Thread: Which music/albums motivate you to do reps?
Post: Which music/albums motivate you to do reps?

Somewhat ironically hardcore fast paced music gets me pumped up and ready to do reps (Hed pe is a favorite) but I find them too distracting while doing the actual reps. So I usually listen to either c...
genini1 The Japanese language 26 8,251 2011-01-10, 12:25 pm
    Thread: Light Therapy: anybody uses these blue lights?
Post: Light Therapy: anybody uses these blue lights?

nohika Wrote:Dustin_Calgary Wrote:nohika Wrote:Are you talking about Bili lights? We just had a kiddo go under those tonight. Poor baby. Yeah, those are them, used to treat Jaundice. I felt bad seein...
genini1 Off topic 16 5,461 2011-01-04, 3:48 pm
    Thread: Teaching Kanji (To younglings)
Post: Teaching Kanji (To younglings)

How old is the group you are teaching, most college Japanese courses don't cover 300 kanji over the course of the first two semesters. If you want a good order to go in I would use the order it's actu...
genini1 Remembering the Kanji 4 1,569 2011-01-04, 3:38 pm
    Thread: Light Therapy: anybody uses these blue lights?
Post: Light Therapy: anybody uses these blue lights?

I think buying $160 worth of porn would help far more than that thing.
genini1 Off topic 16 5,461 2011-01-03, 8:22 pm
    Thread: Vocab "Today I Learned" Thread
Post: Vocab "Today I Learned" Thread

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genini1 The Japanese language 72 24,985 2011-01-01, 8:46 pm
    Thread: Your most embarrassing situations in japanese?
Post: Your most embarrassing situations in japanese?

Probably my first oral exam in Japanese class I got so nervous I started using intermittent German without noticing it and the teacher didn't interrupt me until I finished.
genini1 General discussion 31 6,990 2010-12-08, 9:33 am
    Thread: Breaking into Advanced Grammar
Post: Breaking into Advanced Grammar

I rather like the book at http://www.nihongoresources.com/, it's free to read online. The only down side is that the explanations are a bit technical and dry.
genini1 Learning resources 16 3,015 2010-09-30, 8:16 pm
    Thread: How closely do you read?
Post: How closely do you read?

If I'm reading a manga I've never read before then I flip through without reading looking for words I don't know and write them down. I look them up before I actually read and while I'm reading I writ...
genini1 General discussion 35 5,533 2010-09-19, 10:29 pm
    Thread: Pokemon Black x White now with KANJI!
Post: Pokemon Black x White now with KANJI!

I wanted it but didn't think I would get it since I dislike only hiragana, but now that I know there are kanji I will probably import it. Also there's a beaver and a fire pig as a starter, and I reall...
genini1 Learning resources 81 29,447 2010-09-14, 10:56 am
    Thread: Good Manga Reader for iPad
Post: Good Manga Reader for iPad

I use arcreader, basically just a zip reader but since most of my manga comes in zip format it works great.
genini1 Off topic 15 12,921 2010-07-21, 2:53 pm
    Thread: Whale wars
Post: Whale wars

At its base, pain can be viewed as a warning to the organism that experiences it, that it's life and/or ability to propagate its genetic heritage is under threat. It can be argued that organisms a...
genini1 Off topic 226 35,385 2010-06-22, 2:30 pm
    Thread: Japanese ps3 games on American discs
Post: Japanese ps3 games on American discs

For most of the games that is how it works I am unsure about uncharted but I know that some games will boot in English and you have to go to options inside the game and change it (Mobile Suit Gundam f...
genini1 General discussion 35 12,603 2010-06-13, 1:55 pm
    Thread: Japanese ps3 games on American discs
Post: Japanese ps3 games on American discs

Ratchet and Clank tools of destruction has the Japanese version though a Crack in Time does not. Mobile Suit Gundam Crossfire also has the Japanese version though it won't be automatically selected yo...
genini1 General discussion 35 12,603 2010-06-13, 12:02 am
    Thread: Basic English that I learned today.
Post: Basic English that I learned today.

I'm pretty sure the guy cheating with the wife is the cuckold not the wife herself. The only way I have ever heard it is as "To cuckold someone's wife"
genini1 Off topic 45 7,039 2010-03-15, 9:52 pm
    Thread: The English Article System
Post: The English Article System

This is all from a post on the HtLAL forum, not my own writing. DEFINITE ARTICLE THE Articles in English are invariable. That is, they do not change according to the gender or number of the noun the...
genini1 Off topic 13 1,713 2010-03-14, 4:58 pm
    Thread: Some guy at Kotaku rants on Japan...
Post: Some guy at Kotaku rants on Japan...

Drop him off in Rwanda I'm pretty sure having too much meat, office parties and smoking aren't problems there.
genini1 General discussion 131 24,157 2010-03-03, 11:22 pm
    Thread: Apps for iPod Touch
Post: Apps for iPod Touch

It's a different set up then the actual online one.
genini1 Learning resources 128 54,996 2010-02-26, 12:32 am
    Thread: Need help to better understand の.
Post: Need help to better understand の.

If you haven't read it yet the taekim grammar guide has a nice explanation for how and why it works in more detail in it's basic grammar section.
genini1 The Japanese language 4 925 2010-02-24, 10:29 pm
    Thread: Learning Japanese while taking a heavy uni. degree
Post: Learning Japanese while taking a heavy uni. degree

Seems like a good idea to me, a lot of terms used in science are fairly easy to figure out and textbooks are made to put things in as simple a way as possible. I would still keep a copy of the English...
genini1 General discussion 32 6,584 2010-02-24, 1:55 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

I have now completed RTK1. It took 2 months of study but I did it and I'm proud of myself. The last 400 or so I did with 100+ a day but since I had the days off it worked out well. I am somewhat sad t...
genini1 Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,740 2010-02-19, 10:51 pm
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

An Iverson list is a wordlist method created by a guy named Iverson on the HtLAL forum. The basic premise is to take 5-7 words in one column memorize them all and then write their translation in the n...
genini1 Learning resources 138 47,080 2010-02-18, 5:27 pm