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    Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!
Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!

Made it to 1595 today; it's all downhill from here. This is almost the end of the beginning of my Japanese studies :-)
geminimonk Remembering the Kanji 462 138,197 2015-06-24, 7:39 pm
    Thread: How do YOU work with RTK ?
Post: How do YOU work with RTK ?

I spend a few hours a day, using this website and an anki deck for the hiragana. Don't spend too long drilling an individual kanji. You'll remember it by repeatedly trying to remember it, not by kee...
geminimonk Remembering the Kanji 7 1,384 2015-06-21, 6:27 pm
    Thread: How do YOU work with RTK ?
Post: How do YOU work with RTK ?

Typically I go through one whole chapter at a time, writing down each new kanji and reading a few of the stories for more difficult ones. I check stroke order and alternate keywords for kanji I'm not ...
geminimonk Remembering the Kanji 7 1,384 2015-06-21, 4:23 pm
    Thread: How long did/are you study Japanese a day?
Post: How long did/are you study Japanese a day?

Children also learn a language for what it is, while adults tend to learn new languages in terms of the other language(s) they already know. So for the first few years, adult learners waste their time...
geminimonk General discussion 52 13,146 2015-06-21, 6:14 am
    Thread: Japanese learning app
Post: Japanese learning app

Tae Kim has an app for android, it is quite nice.
geminimonk Learning resources 4 1,053 2015-06-18, 4:23 pm
    Thread: Most effective kanji deck
Post: Most effective kanji deck

I've thought that it's desirable to recall kanji while looking at English, but undesirable to recall English while looking at kanji. The goal is to have Japanese vocabulary come to mind when reading J...
geminimonk Remembering the Kanji 6 1,340 2015-06-16, 12:17 pm
    Thread: Half way!
Post: Half way!

Just added card 1103. The person primitive was fun! I should probably learn the kana soon. Just learned about Lang-8 and HabitRPG, what nice motivation. Hopefully I can fly through the next thousand ...
geminimonk Remembering the Kanji 616 180,466 2015-06-14, 5:03 pm
    Thread: Incorrect Kanji shown?
Post: Incorrect Kanji shown?

Thank you very much!
geminimonk Remembering the Kanji 5 1,096 2015-06-11, 4:59 am
    Thread: Incorrect Kanji shown?
Post: Incorrect Kanji shown?

Lead (metal) appears as 鉛, but in the dictionary (and other users' feedback) the gully primitive is described as being made up of 'enter' and 'mouth'. Leader appears as 将, when the dictionary, and...
geminimonk Remembering the Kanji 5 1,096 2015-06-10, 6:44 pm
    Thread: Incorrect Kanji shown?
Post: Incorrect Kanji shown?

I have come across a number of primitives that don't seem to match up with other renderings of the same kanji. I check stroke orders on Yamasa, and the RtK pictures seem incorrect. Off the top of my h...
geminimonk Remembering the Kanji 5 1,096 2015-06-10, 3:47 pm
    Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!
Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!

Just added card number 619. Though, no cards have made it to the fourth stack. I hope my retention rate can keep up with these reviews. Roar.
geminimonk Remembering the Kanji 526 167,138 2015-06-04, 7:10 pm