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Thread: SRS sucks! Post: SRS sucks! igordesu Wrote:woodwojr Wrote:igordesu Wrote:Hmm. Let me put it another way. In dealing with a certain, limited amount of time that can be spent on Japanese -- whether it be 10 minutes or 10 hours ... |
woodwojr | Learning resources | 111 | 18,162 | 2009-10-16, 5:19 pm | ||
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Thread: SRS sucks! Post: SRS sucks! igordesu Wrote:Hmm. Let me put it another way. In dealing with a certain, limited amount of time that can be spent on Japanese -- whether it be 10 minutes or 10 hours per day There's a major differ... |
woodwojr | Learning resources | 111 | 18,162 | 2009-10-16, 3:00 pm | ||
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Thread: SRS sucks! Post: SRS sucks! mafried Wrote:But my experience has been that when compared against the techniques igordesu is talking about it only helps you with remembering the wrong things, i.e things which you shouldn't have tr... |
woodwojr | Learning resources | 111 | 18,162 | 2009-10-16, 12:36 pm | ||
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Thread: SRS sucks! Post: SRS sucks! What do you think about all the leverless load lifting that people have been doing? Just yesterday, I picked up something heavy and didn't use a single simple machine to help! (I don't think the SRS ... |
woodwojr | Learning resources | 111 | 18,162 | 2009-10-16, 11:18 am | ||
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Thread: Multiple Pre-Made SRS Decks? Post: Multiple Pre-Made SRS Decks? Single deck. I don't use premade decks much, but I mix chemistry and abstract algebra in with kanji and sentences because it's just too much of a pain to keep track of multiple decks. ~J |
woodwojr | The Japanese language | 18 | 3,164 | 2009-10-15, 12:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Jim Breen's Text translation, Japanese Version Post: Jim Breen's Text translation, Japanese Version randomkrazy Wrote:Also can you clarify "Machine readable format"? It's a general term; when applied to things that are already digital, it means "easily lexed, parsed and programmatically manipulated ... |
woodwojr | Learning resources | 9 | 2,548 | 2009-10-15, 8:23 am | ||
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Thread: Best Way to Use Tae Kim? Post: Best Way to Use Tae Kim? jcdietz03 Wrote:I think for words that DO make sense, it's a good idea; and for words that don't make sense, it's a bad idea. That's what I think. Vocab words I'm learning in my Japanese class now (... |
woodwojr | Learning resources | 17 | 6,113 | 2009-10-14, 9:06 pm | ||
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Thread: primitive meaning Post: primitive meaning mezbup Wrote:Heisig is about a complete course on how to not forget the writing and meaning of the jouyou kanji. Writing... And... Meaning. Then you'd best just forget about the "meaning" part, beca... |
woodwojr | Learning resources | 22 | 3,102 | 2009-10-14, 9:01 pm | ||
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Thread: The Annoying "cliff" Radical Post: The Annoying "cliff" Radical Sources I find have it mostly being top-then-left-side but not always. For example, I'm finding 備,危,版,厘 as specific left-then-top cases. ~J |
woodwojr | Remembering the Kanji | 5 | 1,430 | 2009-10-14, 7:29 pm | ||
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Thread: 自動販売機になるよね Post: 自動販売機になるよね いや、だから犯罪者が「うーん、のど乾いちゃった…ジュースでも買っておこうかなー」って思っちゃったらどうなる？大変な事になっちゃう！ ~J |
woodwojr | Off topic | 6 | 2,100 | 2009-10-14, 4:10 pm | ||
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Thread: 電子辞書 With a Good Screen? Post: 電子辞書 With a Good Screen? Bah, I'll wager he's less than 1000mm. ~J |
woodwojr | General discussion | 22 | 4,983 | 2009-10-14, 11:41 am | ||
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Thread: primitive meaning Post: primitive meaning To some extent you do learn a single meaning of most of the kanji, I can't argue otherwise. However, this meaning ranges from incomplete ("present") to subtly but distinctly wrong in implication ("nic... |
woodwojr | Learning resources | 22 | 3,102 | 2009-10-14, 10:55 am | ||
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Thread: primitive meaning Post: primitive meaning errtu Wrote:also making my own cards helps in the learning process. Lies. It may, however, induce you to throw yourself off a building after you have to manually make a thousand cards and realize you'... |
woodwojr | Learning resources | 22 | 3,102 | 2009-10-14, 10:07 am | ||
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Thread: Misadventures in text encoding Post: Misadventures in text encoding From an article on a historical British battle in Africa: "Less than thirty minutes after the battle started, the British line had been pounded into a rough inverted 鏑 with the short leg secured to ... |
woodwojr | Off topic | 0 | 578 | 2009-10-14, 10:05 am | ||
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Thread: RTK without the mnemonics Post: RTK without the mnemonics "RTK without the mnemonics" isn't RTK. I'm trying to think of a comparison; maybe "AJATT five hours a week", or something. Not to say that I think the approach is off-track. My experience was that th... |
woodwojr | Remembering the Kanji | 72 | 17,543 | 2009-10-14, 7:44 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Humour & Comedy Post: Japanese Humour & Comedy IceCream Wrote:And, if there's a word for it, it exists right? "Jackalope". Or to use a more self-referential example, "utopia". My limited experience is that irony/sarcasm is used less frequently t... |
woodwojr | General discussion | 9 | 5,096 | 2009-10-14, 7:21 am | ||
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Thread: I had to laugh at this Post: I had to laugh at this More on the subject. ~J |
woodwojr | The Japanese language | 17 | 3,482 | 2009-10-14, 6:15 am | ||
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Thread: kanji and drawing Post: kanji and drawing Can't speculate on cultural, but I have essentially no drawing ability (except eyes, I can draw decent eyes. In isolation, mind you, I can't draw a decent pair of them.) ~J |
woodwojr | General discussion | 9 | 1,463 | 2009-10-13, 3:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Best Way to Use Tae Kim? Post: Best Way to Use Tae Kim? In no particular order: In my experience, most words do have a sense derivable from their component kanji. Exceptions fall into roughly two categories: idiomatic compounds (not always four-character;... |
woodwojr | Learning resources | 17 | 6,113 | 2009-10-13, 11:34 am | ||
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Thread: Too old to work in Japan? Post: Too old to work in Japan? You're too old. When they implant the crystal it'll turn black immediately, and then it's over for you. ~J |
woodwojr | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 9 | 9,110 | 2009-10-13, 10:10 am | ||
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Thread: Favorite Japanese Blogs Post: Favorite Japanese Blogs 安倍吉俊's ABlog 森永みるく 玄鉄絢 (ero-mangaka, possibly not worksafe) ほしのふうた(ero-mangaka, possibly not worksafe) DONKEY ~J |
woodwojr | General discussion | 10 | 4,817 | 2009-10-11, 10:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Question for those using the self-immersion technique Post: Question for those using the self-immersion techni... Right. You can lose or need to keep up with your native language if you're truly natively monolingual, never mind bilingual (though it generally requires you to become bilingual at some point so you c... |
woodwojr | General discussion | 20 | 3,125 | 2009-10-11, 1:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Eating healthy in Japan on the cheap? Post: Eating healthy in Japan on the cheap? radical_tyro Wrote:running will burn many more calories. This is true. However, running does very little to create additional energy demands at rest. On the days when you don't train, you'll burn abou... |
woodwojr | Off topic | 47 | 16,828 | 2009-10-11, 1:06 pm | ||
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Thread: RT1: please help me with 2 basic questions Post: RT1: please help me with 2 basic questions The easy button exists for a reason. If a character is easy, don't lie to the SRS and say it isn't; it just wastes your time and prevents the SRS from doing that magic it does so well. ~J |
woodwojr | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 2,061 | 2009-10-11, 6:43 am | ||
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Thread: Eating healthy in Japan on the cheap? Post: Eating healthy in Japan on the cheap? I should also note that although running is great exercise in many ways, it's unlikely to raise your resting metabolism much; for that you want something along the lines of weight training to make mor... |
woodwojr | Off topic | 47 | 16,828 | 2009-10-11, 6:41 am | ||
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Thread: needing a little help with anki Post: needing a little help with anki mezbup Wrote:I don't know what I'm supposed to be looking for here. I don't use the specific plugin you mentioned, but if it works like the default Japanese support plugin it should have a place where... |
woodwojr | Learning resources | 11 | 1,908 | 2009-10-10, 8:36 pm | ||
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Thread: Eating healthy in Japan on the cheap? Post: Eating healthy in Japan on the cheap? jacf29 Wrote:Food: I am just keeping off carbs until I hit my goal weight of 167. Then its back to carbs again as I started running every other day a month ago and I love it. So far lost 12 pounds l... |
woodwojr | Off topic | 47 | 16,828 | 2009-10-10, 8:32 pm | ||
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Thread: When did you think "I'm going to see this through" Post: When did you think "I'm going to see this through" Not based purely on analyzing them, but if you don't know your pass rate you can't take any reasonable step to improve it. Well, that's not true. I bet if I calculated the 200,000,000th decimal place... |
woodwojr | General discussion | 28 | 4,784 | 2009-10-10, 8:21 pm | ||
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Thread: needing a little help with anki Post: needing a little help with anki The plugins are just Python files, you can add your own terms to search for (but I don't know what the performance characteristics are like, so beware creating a gigantic list of alternatives). I've ... |
woodwojr | Learning resources | 11 | 1,908 | 2009-10-10, 11:28 am | ||
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Thread: needing a little help with anki Post: needing a little help with anki Check the source; I know that the basic Japanese plugin wasn't working for one of my custom models because it was defined to look for specific tags and fields, and I'd done something different with my... |
woodwojr | Learning resources | 11 | 1,908 | 2009-10-10, 10:51 am | ||
