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    Thread: where to get RTK1 Wallpaper
Post: where to get RTK1 Wallpaper

This was one that was missing from my kanji wallpaper series earlier, tristanthorn had sent me a PM; it's 1451-1560: http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1243/...115ve7.jpg The original series is here:...
MoogleFan Remembering the Kanji 34 17,000 2009-02-18, 3:47 am
    Thread: Teaching Japanese to English-Speaking High Schoolers?
Post: Teaching Japanese to English-Speaking High Schoole...

I'd like to report back on how my classes have been going- I've decided to split the class up in this way: the first few minutes, students finish up any homework they need to do, discuss problems they...
MoogleFan General discussion 71 9,137 2009-02-05, 1:24 pm
    Thread: Teaching Japanese to English-Speaking High Schoolers?
Post: Teaching Japanese to English-Speaking High Schoole...

Next week is when the new semester at the school begins, and, on 1/22, will be my chance to come in an implement a new kind method in my Japanese class. The posts you all have made really go to show w...
MoogleFan General discussion 71 9,137 2009-01-15, 1:14 am
    Thread: Teaching Japanese to English-Speaking High Schoolers?
Post: Teaching Japanese to English-Speaking High Schoole...

First of all, thanks to everyone that responded! Reading your posts has given me a fresh perspective on doing this, I'm glad that I asked, especially considering teaching Japanese is so multi-faceted ...
MoogleFan General discussion 71 9,137 2009-01-09, 1:30 am
    Thread: Teaching Japanese to English-Speaking High Schoolers?
Post: Teaching Japanese to English-Speaking High Schoole...

With all of the experience learning Japanese that RTK users here (and also people who have used the AJATT method, Anki, iKnow, and so on) have, I am proposing a question: if you were given the opportu...
MoogleFan General discussion 71 9,137 2009-01-08, 5:01 pm
    Thread: Ideal passage percentages when reviewing?
Post: Ideal passage percentages when reviewing?

^ I definitely notice that testing the day after is more beneficial. If you test too soon after you add them, chances are that you are going to know more of them because your recall will be greater. I...
MoogleFan Remembering the Kanji 25 4,970 2008-10-07, 10:33 pm
    Thread: Vivid images in your head, or just catchy phrases?
Post: Vivid images in your head, or just catchy phrases?

So far, the kanji I remember best are from verbal-based phrases/stories, not so much the imagery. A book like Kanji Pict-o-Graphix is rather helpful for getting the imagination going, though many of t...
MoogleFan General discussion 25 7,811 2008-09-01, 4:45 pm
    Thread: where to get RTK1 Wallpaper
Post: where to get RTK1 Wallpaper

Thanks guys! :) I finished making the rest for RTK1 today (to 2042!); the Sendspace link is a zip containing all of the wallpaper images (you can unpack using WinRAR, or something smiilar), and the Im...
MoogleFan Remembering the Kanji 34 17,000 2008-08-20, 9:33 pm
    Thread: where to get RTK1 Wallpaper
Post: where to get RTK1 Wallpaper

I think that it would be most effective for study (particularly if one hadn't yet completed RTK1) to have the wallpapers show a smaller group of kanji; in the case of the ones I designed, 130 at a tim...
MoogleFan Remembering the Kanji 34 17,000 2008-08-20, 12:58 am
    Thread: How soon after studying do you add the kanji?
Post: How soon after studying do you add the kanji?

I do about a lesson a day (unless it is particularly long, in which case I split it up arcross days), then add the kanji after I finish studying them. I don't test on them until the next day. I keep g...
MoogleFan Remembering the Kanji 16 2,657 2008-08-20, 12:03 am
    Thread: Chapter 23 - Who's idea was this?
Post: Chapter 23 - Who's idea was this?

Yeah, I'm on Lesson 21 and I saw that was coming up, much to my horror...>_< I'll post back when I'm done, and how long it took me. Yikes!
MoogleFan Remembering the Kanji 18 3,362 2008-05-17, 3:37 pm
    Thread: Guess the kanji!
Post: Guess the kanji!

Oi, we can't let this thread disappear! I've got one that I found, though it doesn't mention it's components specifically, it is a visual description: Quote:Situps. Guess the kanji!
MoogleFan General discussion 7 2,406 2008-05-16, 2:09 pm
    Thread: What age are you?
Post: What age are you?

18 Since April 19th; already at frame 514, with about 85% retention! I'm trying to complete a whole lesson about every other day, regardless of how big it is. I want to keep the retention at about 85%...
MoogleFan Off topic 357 73,704 2008-05-16, 2:07 pm
    Thread: Sentence mining - collections?
Post: Sentence mining - collections?

Perhaps instead of searching for lots and lots of sentences to use in the future, maybe only focus on those that you'll learn in the next 3-4 days or so, gathering them from textbooks, phrase books, a...
MoogleFan General discussion 28 8,933 2008-05-11, 10:09 pm
    Thread: Guess the kanji!
Post: Guess the kanji!

減 dwindle! I'm pretty sure, anyway, since I did that one first a couple of days ago. =P Okay: Quote:"The [GUESS THE KANJI!] on crown street is the tallest I have ever seen."
MoogleFan General discussion 7 2,406 2008-05-04, 1:19 am
    Thread: My Current Study Method (Suggestions?)
Post: My Current Study Method (Suggestions?)

Hey guys- thanks for all the posts. Pimsleur is a piece of cake, so I'm definitely not having trouble doing just one measly lesson a day! ^_~ I'm at 299 kanji now, which isn't bad, as it was only rece...
MoogleFan General discussion 24 4,226 2008-04-30, 1:33 am
    Thread: I get tense when I study?
Post: I get tense when I study?

I was at *exactly* the stage you're talking about with Japanese about this same time last year. I found myself thinking things like, "I've studied for so long...but WHEN will I be able to say that I a...
MoogleFan General discussion 24 11,924 2008-04-27, 3:20 pm
    Thread: Mental dialogue question
Post: Mental dialogue question

I used to do that as well; one could render unidentifiable words as 未知の単語 (michi no tango; unknown word/s) or unidentifiable kanji as 未知の漢字 (michi no kanji; unknown kanji). When I've been out of pract...
MoogleFan General discussion 7 2,018 2008-04-24, 5:05 pm
    Thread: My Current Study Method (Suggestions?)
Post: My Current Study Method (Suggestions?)

I like SRS (like Anki) for quick review on a semi-daily basis, but they aren't everything. Listening to/speaking conversational Japanese and reading/writing sentences in context of a book/article/etc....
MoogleFan General discussion 24 4,226 2008-04-22, 2:35 pm
    Thread: My Current Study Method (Suggestions?)
Post: My Current Study Method (Suggestions?)

Hey- thanks, all of you, for responding! =) The SRS I'm using is Anki, which is a great program; I've put in lots of words and sentences from "Japanese for Everyone" and find that I remember more of t...
MoogleFan General discussion 24 4,226 2008-04-21, 4:12 pm
    Thread: My Current Study Method (Suggestions?)
Post: My Current Study Method (Suggestions?)

Hi~! I'm a new user of the "Remembering the Kanji" book and this website's review method, though I have been studying Japanese for many years. I had fallen out of practicing Japanese for about a year,...
MoogleFan General discussion 24 4,226 2008-04-20, 11:37 pm