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Thread: How Do I Start Investing? Post: RE: How Do I Start Investing? /unlurk Hey TheVinster, here's a couple of resources that got me started that I really enjoy. The Stock Series. This guy will tell you what to do, if you believe his advice. : http://jlcollinsnh.com... |
amillerchip | Off topic | 42 | 4,976 | 2016-01-25, 9:35 am | ||
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Thread: Pissed off, How does this visa thing work Post: Pissed off, How does this visa thing work vix86 Wrote:You can apply for a visa on your own w/o a CoE, and hope you get granted one, but that process can take months and if you don't know what things immigration likes to see then you'll probab... |
amillerchip | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 22 | 4,920 | 2015-04-05, 9:44 am | ||
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Thread: Moving to Japan to Learn (not study) Japanese Post: Moving to Japan to Learn (not study) Japanese I think I'm overdue for an update. I'm just going to ramble so bear with me if you will. :-) First my advice for anyone considering coming to Japan: Have a base/organisation/group/somebody whose job ... |
amillerchip | General discussion | 28 | 9,091 | 2014-12-29, 7:36 am | ||
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Thread: Moving to Japan to Learn (not study) Japanese Post: Moving to Japan to Learn (not study) Japanese Another update: I got to Japan mid-May, and did about a month of WWOOFing (volunteering on farms in exchange for food and bed). However I found it wasn't really as immersive as I'd hoped because I wa... |
amillerchip | General discussion | 28 | 9,091 | 2014-07-13, 1:07 am | ||
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Thread: RTK1(4th edition) + Supplement or Genki 1 Post: RTK1(4th edition) + Supplement or Genki 1 If you're one of those people that gets through RTK quickly, go for that first. If you're like me and after 2 months you haven't got very far, I'd cut back on the kanji and start Genki. I wasted 1 or ... |
amillerchip | The Japanese language | 11 | 2,528 | 2014-04-14, 6:29 am | ||
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Thread: Moving to Japan to Learn (not study) Japanese Post: Moving to Japan to Learn (not study) Japanese Just a quick update. I got a 1-year working holiday visa on Monday. :-) So it's all looking good! I have a lease on my flat until April and I've got to finish up some things with work and get my pers... |
amillerchip | General discussion | 28 | 9,091 | 2014-02-12, 6:10 am | ||
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Thread: Moving to Japan to Learn (not study) Japanese Post: Moving to Japan to Learn (not study) Japanese Wow, thanks again for all the detailed replies. It's been interesting to read your experiences. There seems to be a vague theme: Yes, learning as much as I can before moving to Japan will allow me to... |
amillerchip | General discussion | 28 | 9,091 | 2014-01-14, 3:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Moving to Japan to Learn (not study) Japanese Post: Moving to Japan to Learn (not study) Japanese Thanks for the feedback so far. :-) Zorlee Wrote:At least get your basics down. :) Nice to have one reinforcement to this line of thinking already! ktcgx Wrote:Based on my own experience, you won't ... |
amillerchip | General discussion | 28 | 9,091 | 2014-01-12, 7:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Moving to Japan to Learn (not study) Japanese Post: Moving to Japan to Learn (not study) Japanese Hi all. I'm looking for advice from people that have moved to Japan to acquire the language. I'm been studying in my spare time for a few years but still struggle with basic speaking although my com... |
amillerchip | General discussion | 28 | 9,091 | 2014-01-12, 4:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Characterizer for Chrome Post: Characterizer for Chrome Yeah that's what I did. :-) I used it for a bit now and decided it's not for me though, so I'm not going to spend any time on an import script after all. |
amillerchip | General discussion | 8 | 2,739 | 2013-02-11, 9:52 am | ||
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Thread: Characterizer for Chrome Post: Characterizer for Chrome Just some feedback. I noticed it's only possible to edit the profiles character by character. I'd like to import my RTK keywords, but I'm not going to scroll through more than 2000 lines, checking eac... |
amillerchip | General discussion | 8 | 2,739 | 2013-02-11, 1:31 am | ||
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Thread: Characterizer for Chrome Post: Characterizer for Chrome Cool - I'll have a look into this when I find some free time. :) Looks like a great way to practice recognition in context (besides reading Japanese, obviously...). I'd have to customise the RTK prof... |
amillerchip | General discussion | 8 | 2,739 | 2013-02-10, 8:39 am | ||
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Thread: Good Alternatives to Anki? Post: Good Alternatives to Anki? Hyperborea Wrote:A massive rant... Mmm rageposts. Any piece of software is going to be subject to revisions, so if you make the effort to switch, you're probably just going to be giving yourself a dif... |
amillerchip | Learning resources | 47 | 19,434 | 2013-01-25, 8:36 am | ||
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Thread: AFATT -> all french all the time Post: AFATT -> all french all the time http://www.youtube.com/results?search_qu...ranglaises |
amillerchip | General discussion | 19 | 7,031 | 2013-01-24, 6:15 pm | ||
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Thread: RtK - 2 Months Later Post: RtK - 2 Months Later I don't know how you do it. The most I ever added was 70 a day, and I blew out over that so much that I gave up and started again. :P Nice to hear people have success with the sprinting approach. Too... |
amillerchip | Remembering the Kanji | 1 | 861 | 2013-01-13, 6:21 am | ||
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Thread: Stroke order 脊 Post: Stroke order 脊 erlog Wrote:A better mnemonic is to just remember that alternating horizontal and vertical strokes is a common stroke order pattern. If you think about the stroke order for 工 and 口, and then work back... |
amillerchip | The Japanese language | 18 | 3,344 | 2013-01-13, 6:15 am | ||
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Thread: Stroke order 脊 Post: Stroke order 脊 Heh, I literally added this character today and ran into the same question. But then just thought, meh, I get the first two of 左 and 右 mixed up all the time and I doubt anyone will care. Arguably it m... |
amillerchip | The Japanese language | 18 | 3,344 | 2013-01-12, 9:37 am | ||
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Thread: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request) Post: KO2001 and iKnow (Group Effort Request) Bump. Same question as PotbellyPig. I tried the anki deck on this wiki page: http://rtkwiki.koohii.com/wiki/2001.Kanji.Odyssey But from the media folder, it looks like that is using the GIFs from th... |
amillerchip | Group study | 304 | 90,258 | 2013-01-12, 6:17 am | ||
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Thread: Deleting useless Kanji from SRS Post: Deleting useless Kanji from SRS drdunlap Wrote:At least half of the kanji that he lists in that first post are indispensable for understanding normal Japanese. :\\ I guess that's debatable. The article provides 5 pretty strong reaso... |
amillerchip | Remembering the Kanji | 42 | 6,275 | 2013-01-10, 8:36 am | ||
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Thread: RTK 1 6th ed. deck Post: RTK 1 6th ed. deck Those keywords are from the RTK1 supplement, rather than RTK3. The supplement gave some RTK3 characters new keywords. edit: ah I see. I guess the 6th edition uses the supplement keywords, not the RTK... |
amillerchip | Remembering the Kanji | 29 | 18,149 | 2013-01-10, 5:48 am | ||
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Thread: Deleting useless Kanji from SRS Post: Deleting useless Kanji from SRS Here's one approach: http://japaneselevelup.com/2011/08/03/fi...aws-1-500/ Personally I just keep them in. I quite enjoy reviewing them so that's a benefit in itself. If you see it as wasted effort ... |
amillerchip | Remembering the Kanji | 42 | 6,275 | 2013-01-10, 5:44 am | ||
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Thread: Should I also worry about the stroke order and the writing quality? Post: Should I also worry about the stroke order and the... You might also find this post interesting. http://japaneselevelup.com/2011/02/11/wr...forgotten/ PS and this http://japaneselevelup.com/2011/09/11/le...d-skip-it/ (yeah I'm a bit of a JALUP junkie ... |
amillerchip | Remembering the Kanji | 10 | 3,056 | 2013-01-08, 2:41 am | ||
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Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread Hi. Can anybody tell me what character the second symbol in this restaurant's logo is? I got the rest: 櫻X日本料理 http://www.sakurauk.co.uk/index.html Thanks! Edit: Is it 花? |
amillerchip | The Japanese language | 8,332 | 1,452,354 | 2012-12-23, 7:35 am | ||
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Thread: What's the best advice you can give to a beginner? Post: What's the best advice you can give to a beginner? Don't spend too long reading endless AJATT debates on the koohii forums. ^_^ |
amillerchip | General discussion | 74 | 11,578 | 2012-12-18, 7:20 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Zlarp Wrote:amillerchip Wrote:Last year, I was so desperate to hit my target I crammed in 70+ a day towards the end, then proceeded to forget them all in January/February. How can you forget them? Hav... |
amillerchip | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,560 | 2012-12-17, 9:46 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... amillerchip Wrote:2011 December 31, 5:12 pm I also finished up today, after a ridiculously intense push for the past few days to beat the new year. :-) Good work everyone, and good luck to people re... |
amillerchip | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,560 | 2012-12-17, 3:57 am | ||
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Thread: 6 week challenge Post: 6 week challenge EasyJapanezy Wrote:I recently found out about and signed up for the 6 week challenge.) <tangent> How's your kanji retention after your crazy RTK stint this time last year? </tangent> |
amillerchip | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 3,070 | 2012-12-12, 7:19 am | ||
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Thread: Remembering the Kanji Sample PDF Post: Remembering the Kanji Sample PDF Appears not. You could always e-mail him, his address is on the site: http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/en/staff/jheisig/ |
amillerchip | Remembering the Kanji | 5 | 3,600 | 2012-12-03, 1:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese typing tutor software Post: Japanese typing tutor software You could always get one of these. ;-) [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk8ZFAM2N2s] |
amillerchip | General discussion | 6 | 1,785 | 2012-11-23, 4:56 am | ||
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Thread: Starting RtK Post: Starting RtK As the others said, learning the primitives is important. So learn them and the kanji you don't already know. For the ones you do know, one thing you could try is to just rename their keywords here t... |
amillerchip | Remembering the Kanji | 9 | 2,950 | 2012-11-19, 6:32 am | ||
