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    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

ファブリス Wrote:oregum Wrote:Communication is what people hear, not what you say. (the speaker is to blame, if the listen doesn't understand) Amen. Communication is a Science (YouTube) I remember a time ...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-05, 5:24 am
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

timcampbell Wrote:If you are totally incapable at the only way you know how to learn, maybe it's time for a rethink. No. I am very much capable using my old methods. If you care to read a post to the ...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-05, 5:15 am
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

Nukemarine Wrote:I'll be honest, I see the same thing in the exercise routine I do called CrossFit. I read too quickly first and thought it was some kind of study method like Heisig etc. :-) Now I kno...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-05, 5:08 am
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

bandwidthjunkie Wrote:If you want to spend 2 months studying Japanese and becoming basically functional, then of course doing Heisig is crazy, because if you are lucky, you will just about have finish...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-05, 3:38 am
    Thread: What is James W. Heisig doing ....
Post: What is James W. Heisig doing ....

... when he is not causing a lot of fights on the net?? :-) I seem to remembered reading about him a long time ago, but had to refresh my memory: wikipedia Wrote:James W. Heisig is a philosopher who...
KanjiHanzi Off topic 59 24,115 2009-01-05, 2:14 am
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

nest0r Wrote:Thank goodness for the Blocksite add-on for Firefox. It even works for threads. It doesn't seem to work well enough since you are still here. Try again.
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-04, 9:04 pm
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

yukamina Wrote:There's even a thread someone started logging his progress with RTK1, and he received no attacks( not that I noticed anyway). Well, that's called progress. Let's pray that the same thin...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-04, 9:03 pm
    Thread: Extremely GOOD NEWS: affordable fountain pens!
Post: Extremely GOOD NEWS: affordable fountain pens!

Jarvik7 Wrote:Anyways, it's a moot point. Penji is writing characters with a pen, with fixed line widths. It is??? So writing with a fountain pen is not considered as penji in Japan? Was penji born at...
KanjiHanzi The Japanese language 47 14,122 2009-01-04, 9:01 pm
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

KanjiHanzi Wrote:...and Wieger .... Dover has published his "Chinese Characters" from 1915 in a couple of reprints. It's an extremely beautiful book of much use also for students of Kanji. Besides it'...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-04, 8:09 pm
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

alyks Wrote:Besides, the point is in the mnemonics to remember them in the first place, not to be etymologically correct. I could care less as long as it works. A perfectly valid point of view. I just...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-04, 8:01 pm
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

mentat_kgs Wrote:You have done nothing. You are only leaching precious energy. This is not always a friendly forum. Me thinks rudeness rules too many minds. Can you give a description of what I did i...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-04, 7:50 pm
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

oregum Wrote:My advise: Ignore posts make you angry. Yes, that's a good advice. I really didn't get **angry** (apart from ONCE in an entirely different thread where one of the posse tried to move ever...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-04, 7:41 pm
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

Tobberoth Wrote:The problem wasn't what you wanted to discuss, it was how you started the discussion. That thread is closed. I am under order not to discuss it anymore, so at least have the decency to...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-04, 7:34 pm
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

mentat_kgs Wrote:Be aware that until now you have not proposed any novelty at all. Considering that I just started a few days ago with my project I *DO* think it's a bit premature to say it's nothing ...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-04, 7:28 pm
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

ファブリス Wrote:Ok then, I challenge you to stop posting in these forums until 2010, or make that 2012. Challenge? Or require? As I have said earlier: You're the boss around here - it's your place - and I...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-04, 7:19 pm
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

ファブリス Wrote:KanjiHanzi Wrote:I don't think there is a stigma. The moderator of THIS site didn't want it be mentioned. Please backup with facts. As far as I remember I have never asked anybody not to ...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-04, 7:08 pm
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

ファブリス Wrote:I remember vaguely that there supposedly is an so called "anti-Heisig" posse over at the japanesepage.com forums. Or maybe there was? Or maybe it is still there? Hmmm.. I wonder if you lik...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-04, 6:34 pm
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

nest0r Wrote:Not again... **IS** this a place where one can discuss the pros and cons of the Heisig method or is it something entirely different?? If the latter is the case, then I have missed it for ...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-04, 6:27 pm
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

Ben_Nielson Wrote:Arguments like this are a complete waste of energy. :) You're never going to convince people that have made up their minds, just like they're not going to convince you. Those alrea...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-04, 6:17 pm
    Thread: "The ingenious Heisig Method"
Post: "The ingenious Heisig Method"

(I really resent being called a liar, as has happened here when I also resented telling my most previous user name. There was not other reason for this refusal than that it was a rude request I had no...
KanjiHanzi General discussion 60 12,385 2009-01-04, 5:43 pm
    Thread: Extremely GOOD NEWS: affordable fountain pens!
Post: Extremely GOOD NEWS: affordable fountain pens!

rich_f Wrote:If you're going to buy Japanese books, try bk1.jp. Thanks a lot, Rich. Been there a long time ago, but have sort of forgotten the site. rich_f Wrote:No English help, so you better have R...
KanjiHanzi The Japanese language 47 14,122 2009-01-04, 4:49 pm
    Thread: Primitives --> Characters
Post: Primitives --> Characters

bandwidthjunkie Wrote:I've kept alter as alter, except on the left I distinguish it as Zen alter, and to be honest it has worked really well. But of course different things work for different people. ...
KanjiHanzi Remembering the Kanji 10 1,501 2009-01-04, 2:11 pm
    Thread: Extremely GOOD NEWS: affordable fountain pens!
Post: Extremely GOOD NEWS: affordable fountain pens!

cangy Wrote:ball pen and pencil writing is different from brush writing, there's no stroke types with different speeds and weights, just even lines, with at most a sharp tick Now, when I've done all y...
KanjiHanzi The Japanese language 47 14,122 2009-01-04, 2:03 pm
    Thread: Extremely GOOD NEWS: affordable fountain pens!
Post: Extremely GOOD NEWS: affordable fountain pens!

cangy Wrote:actually some fonts are based directly on woodcut typography, only indirectly on the brush writing, others have an even weight, again only indirectly based on the actual appearance of brus...
KanjiHanzi The Japanese language 47 14,122 2009-01-04, 1:58 pm
    Thread: Primitives --> Characters
Post: Primitives --> Characters

bandwidthjunkie Wrote:... and guess who the fellow on the left is, 阿: yeah it's Bob Marley. Continuing the religious leader stuff: Nope, it's the pope/Vatican. :-) It's just as easy to take character...
KanjiHanzi Remembering the Kanji 10 1,501 2009-01-04, 9:01 am
    Thread: Primitives --> Characters
Post: Primitives --> Characters

bandwidthjunkie Wrote:I wish I had taken someone like the Dalai Lama for the state of mind primitive because all of this: x is the y state of mind can definitely get confused. That's funny. I did! :-)...
KanjiHanzi Remembering the Kanji 10 1,501 2009-01-04, 8:44 am
    Thread: Extremely GOOD NEWS: affordable fountain pens!
Post: Extremely GOOD NEWS: affordable fountain pens!

PS Here is the very interesting pen - Brush pen + ink roller ball combined!!! - she is using in the tiny snippet: http://www.hisnibs.com/uranus_2018.htm Sold out at the moment, though
KanjiHanzi The Japanese language 47 14,122 2009-01-04, 5:06 am
    Thread: Extremely GOOD NEWS: affordable fountain pens!
Post: Extremely GOOD NEWS: affordable fountain pens!

I just got this link from Norman at http://www.hisnibs.com/ [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzs1RY0_Ukk&eurl=http]://www.hisnibs.com/ His wife is doing PEN BRUSH WORK in a show sent by PB...
KanjiHanzi The Japanese language 47 14,122 2009-01-04, 5:03 am
    Thread: Extremely GOOD NEWS: affordable fountain pens!
Post: Extremely GOOD NEWS: affordable fountain pens!

cangy Wrote:emulating brush work by... ...using a brush! if you want it to look like it's written with a brush, wouldn't it make more sense to use a brush pen? do you have an example of writing wi...
KanjiHanzi The Japanese language 47 14,122 2009-01-04, 4:36 am
    Thread: Extremely GOOD NEWS: affordable fountain pens!
Post: Extremely GOOD NEWS: affordable fountain pens!

rich_f Wrote:This is the link to the Sailor Profit from the company I buy refills from. I got the pens at Ito-ya in Ginza, I get refills from Swisher Pens. I bought an extra pen from Swisher for my br...
KanjiHanzi The Japanese language 47 14,122 2009-01-04, 2:33 am