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    Thread: How to properly pause learning Japanese: preventing skill degeneration
Post: RE: How to properly pause learning Japanese: preve...

(2016-03-14, 12:42 am)Stansfield123 Wrote: What skills are you looking to preserve, specifically? mainly comprehension\vocabulary skills! I've never been to Japan or had any other occasion to actua...
z1bbo General discussion 6 1,152 2016-03-14, 3:16 am
    Thread: How to properly pause learning Japanese: preventing skill degeneration
Post: How to properly pause learning Japanese: preventin...

I plan on traveling Spanish-speaking countries in about a year and though it would be neat to get fluent in Spanish as preparation, which I estimate to take a minimum of 6 to 8 months, but I really wa...
z1bbo General discussion 6 1,152 2016-03-13, 4:54 am
    Thread: .....
Post: RE: Interesting study on the use of kanji...

the idea is interesting but that study feels incredibly shitty from a statistical viewpoint. A total of 17 news texts, and all from 朝日?? No wonder the results they get are worthless. On a side note, ...
z1bbo The Japanese language 10 1,250 2016-01-22, 12:56 pm
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: RE: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

(2015-12-13, 11:06 am)z1bbo Wrote: Hi cb I'm getting back to an older problem of audio not replaying, everything else works fine (even import with audio). the ~rikai_audio.mp3 file is in the temp fo...
z1bbo Learning resources 859 244,107 2015-12-23, 7:52 am
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: RE: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

(2015-02-23, 10:03 pm)cb4960 Wrote: Do you see a file called ~rikai_audio.mp3 in your %temp% folder? Do you see any errors in the Browser Console (Ctrl-Shift-J)?. For reference, I've tested Rikais...
z1bbo Learning resources 859 244,107 2015-12-13, 11:06 am
    Thread: Am I doing the most appropriate things to improve listening ability?
Post: RE: Am I doing the most appropriate things to impr...

(2015-11-17, 3:11 am)s0apgun Wrote: 37k words? That's gotta be a typo. Did you mean 3,700 words? If he read 50 LNs and probably tons of other stuff then 37k is a pretty reasonable number! The more ...
z1bbo The Japanese language 61 9,833 2015-11-17, 4:01 am
    Thread: Visual novels as study tool
Post: Visual novels as study tool

vn's are great for practice, but they tend to be way to hard for beginners. I'd recommend doing something like core 6k and reading a few easy light novels and web news first!
z1bbo The Japanese language 17 5,459 2015-11-12, 4:15 pm
    Thread: Strangest word you've come across?
Post: Strangest word you've come across?

国際霊柩送還士 :D
z1bbo The Japanese language 57 9,866 2015-10-01, 10:52 am
    Thread: I study Nihongo because...
Post: I study Nihongo because...

Dudeist Wrote:As a self learner I don't think I have what it takes to handle tones, otherwise I'd probably do Chinese. Tones being too hard seems like a myth to me. I'm sure Chinese is just as easy to...
z1bbo Off topic 358 111,121 2015-09-14, 3:49 am
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

has anyone tested whether Anki Real Time Import still works fine in Windows 10? I'm thinking about upgrading from win7 but windows has a talent to ***** things up so I would be much more confident if ...
z1bbo Learning resources 859 244,107 2015-09-10, 4:21 am
    Thread: Why you can read but can't listen.
Post: Why you can read but can't listen.

PotbellyPig Wrote:I find watching with Japanese subtitles not effective because I just read the subtitles with no issues and I don't find that the listening comprehension improves. I'm was having the ...
z1bbo The Japanese language 54 7,417 2015-09-07, 1:44 pm
    Thread: Hanzi deck tailored to a Japanese speaker
Post: Hanzi deck tailored to a Japanese speaker

I'm currently thinking about starting to learn Mandarin and how to best use my existing Kanji knowledge. I suppose that you can save a great amount of time but just not "relearning" characters with a ...
z1bbo Learning resources 3 825 2015-08-29, 2:56 pm
    Thread: Where's Khatzumoto?
Post: Where's Khatzumoto?

buonaparte Wrote:yogert909 Wrote:buonaparte Wrote:His ideas were STUPID. IMPOSSIBLE. What exactly were his ideas? He had no ideas. 1. He read Heisig - learn how to write 3000 kanji. (mnemonics in Engl...
z1bbo Off topic 529 103,222 2015-08-21, 4:27 pm
    Thread: Has Learning Japanese Been Worth it to You?
Post: Has Learning Japanese Been Worth it to You?

yeah it's totally been worth it (and still is). Learning Japanese is one of the things I've been most enthusiastic about and I'm having tons of fun seeing my skill develop. Kanji are like a fetish to ...
z1bbo General discussion 44 7,030 2015-08-13, 1:47 pm
    Thread: Has anyone on this forum managed to do this for the primitives?
Post: Has anyone on this forum managed to do this for th...

this is all the radicals: http://www.efontshop.com/feaddfont/help/busyu_list.htm a lot of the other parts don't have "real" names or are really obscure
z1bbo The Japanese language 3 1,208 2015-07-28, 3:25 pm
    Thread: Learning to speak Japanese before learning kanji?
Post: Learning to speak Japanese before learning kanji?

By not learning kanji you wont be able to use any written Japanese resource at all (except stuff for little children) and you will have a very hard time telling homophones apart- there are of thousan...
z1bbo The Japanese language 45 6,201 2015-07-16, 1:59 pm
    Thread: jouyou and kanji kentei
Post: jouyou and kanji kentei

cophnia61 Wrote:Considering you're not using english keywords, do you make stories for new kanji? Except for really obvious 形声文字 like 茉莉 where it's easy to connect shape with reading/meaning I still u...
z1bbo The Japanese language 9 1,256 2015-07-08, 9:52 am
    Thread: jouyou and kanji kentei
Post: jouyou and kanji kentei

cophnia61 Wrote:Thank you z1bbo for the answer! I do the same as you and I think it's the best approach! Could I ask you if you do rtk in production or recognition, and if you add rtk cards for the n...
z1bbo The Japanese language 9 1,256 2015-07-08, 8:57 am
    Thread: jouyou and kanji kentei
Post: jouyou and kanji kentei

the 常用漢字 are (according to their name) all very common and useful, and are covered in RTK1. Kenkan 準1 is "unofficial" and not related to RTK3, though there probably is a big overlap since they both fo...
z1bbo The Japanese language 9 1,256 2015-07-08, 8:29 am
    Thread: Kindle Dictionary (Does US or JP version matter?)
Post: Kindle Dictionary (Does US or JP version matter?)

I tested the Kindle Paperwhite in Germany and I could set the menu to japanese and got a J-J dictionary. But the J-J dictionary actually really sucked- it doesn't select words properly, gives wrong ...
z1bbo Learning resources 6 953 2015-06-29, 4:25 pm
    Thread: Recording Your Own Spoken Japanese
Post: Recording Your Own Spoken Japanese

I would be too ashamed of how shitty it sounds and instead read some book...
z1bbo General discussion 6 992 2015-06-21, 4:09 pm
    Thread: best CSS-style for reading on PC
Post: best CSS-style for reading on PC

Hi, I'd like to read a lot more Japanese books but it's too much trouble to import physical ones so I end up reading exclusively on my PC (mostly innocent). What sucks is that I can read physical boo...
z1bbo Learning resources 5 1,102 2015-06-18, 8:52 am
    Thread: For those who completed Tae Kim
Post: For those who completed Tae Kim

Kanken Wrote:Thank you :) Should I go directly to Kanzen or can I first finish Tae Kim? By the way those books are completely in Japanese, aren't they? A bit hard for a beginner. yeah if you are a be...
z1bbo The Japanese language 8 1,573 2015-06-15, 5:29 am
    Thread: For those who completed Tae Kim
Post: For those who completed Tae Kim

No it's not enough, there is still tons of stuff not covered there. You might want to look at the 完全1級 and 2級 grammar books (there are some decks somewhere) and of course you need a lot of practice if...
z1bbo The Japanese language 8 1,573 2015-06-15, 4:45 am
    Thread: Future Self to Past Self: To 10k or not to 10k?
Post: Future Self to Past Self: To 10k or not to 10k?

Even if you learn all of the words contained in lets say, one anime, it would take you quite some time (probably months if you are low level). And you will end up with lots if rarer words, that in tur...
z1bbo General discussion 38 6,409 2015-06-11, 2:25 pm
    Thread: Advanced Vocabulary
Post: Advanced Vocabulary

a thesaurus ( http://thesaurus.weblio.jp/ ) is pretty cool for browsing though words!
z1bbo General discussion 29 4,792 2015-06-07, 1:21 pm
    Thread: Kanji Self Test - How many do you know?
Post: Kanji Self Test - How many do you know?

it's actually pretty shit for anyone advanced as far as I can tell since it seems to only test on 常用漢字
z1bbo Learning resources 28 8,403 2015-05-31, 3:21 pm
    Thread: Moving to Japan and study preparation
Post: Moving to Japan and study preparation

at the start do 70 new words/day, when you get to 3k or something gradually slow down to 40/day, read all of Tae Kim/ similar grammar overview, after that get as much practice in the area that you nee...
z1bbo General discussion 5 1,036 2015-05-22, 4:04 pm
    Thread: Can u mirror a kanji without changing its meaning?
Post: Can u mirror a kanji without changing its meaning?

No, mirroring does not work. You probably meant 神人 which are 2 characters, literally "god person". I would recommend getting it removed, since any one who could read it would think it to be stupid/ a...
z1bbo The Japanese language 11 1,268 2015-05-22, 2:40 pm
    Thread: 1 Month Until Exams, What is most effective study from here onwards?
Post: 1 Month Until Exams, What is most effective study ...

What kind of exam is it? And if I learned one thing in University it's that the most efficient thing you can do in order to pass an exam is going though all the past exams like a madman! Other than...
z1bbo The Japanese language 1 792 2015-05-08, 2:11 pm