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    Thread: World Cup 2010
Post: World Cup 2010

If I was in Japan I'd be watching sumo. I <3 Sumo, but it's not on TV here in the US.
georgative Off topic 63 10,643 2010-05-11, 5:12 am
    Thread: Silly question about Kana -> Kanji cards
Post: Silly question about Kana -> Kanji cards

I'm going through the Core 2000 at the moment and I'm not sure if I am "doing it right" for the Kana -> Kanji cards. What I do is I just listen to the sentences (or I read them) and see if I can u...
georgative The Japanese language 2 676 2010-05-06, 4:06 am
    Thread: Trouble speaking...in english!!
Post: Trouble speaking...in english!!

I actually new a guy who spoke like 4 languages but wasn't really fluent in any of them. He grew up speaking Russian, but even at 40 he spoke like a peasant and forgot words.
georgative The Japanese language 32 5,196 2010-05-04, 9:13 pm
    Thread: Are Japanese people afraid of the toilet?
Post: Are Japanese people afraid of the toilet?

I'm a little afraid of spiders in the toilet. I have arachnophobia, so the thought of a spider crawling on my ass is pretty.. unpleasant. But a quick prelim check usually clears things up, and I jus...
georgative General discussion 34 10,482 2010-05-02, 12:48 am
    Thread: -ず verb ending
Post: -ず verb ending

http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/gra...tiveverbs2 second half of the first section
georgative The Japanese language 13 5,439 2010-04-28, 7:25 pm
    Thread: Economics and Physics major
Post: Economics and Physics major

Tell me if I missed some questions! =) 1) Yah, there is a BA program. It's meant to be more liberal-artsy I guess. It means you take a few less physics classes and a few more general classes (so for ...
georgative General discussion 25 7,365 2010-04-28, 3:39 am
    Thread: Economics and Physics major
Post: Economics and Physics major

As someone who is finishing his major in physics, here is my rant =P I highly don't recommend it. As someone already mentioned, it's sorta prestigious and you can probably make a lot of money (though...
georgative General discussion 25 7,365 2010-04-27, 5:51 am
    Thread: Do you know where the banks get their money? The Money Masters.
Post: Do you know where the banks get their money? The M...

IceCream Wrote:these are the kind of issues i wondered if anyone would comment on in the microfinance thread. actually, i think capitalism is a horrible system, always have. but this kind of vague (o...
georgative Off topic 52 9,284 2010-04-23, 7:49 pm
    Thread: Survey: When, where, and why did you start RTK?
Post: Survey: When, where, and why did you start RTK?

I started last Summer. Finished last October, just finished Tae Kim and am antsy to start boosting my vocab (kinda frustrating I still don't understand anything =/ ) So about 2 years ago I decided I ...
georgative Remembering the Kanji 22 4,455 2010-04-21, 11:56 pm
    Thread: How to write faster
Post: How to write faster

caivano Wrote:This is a good resource for writing kanji properly to begin with: http://www.geocities.jp/ki07ji/muryo/muryo.html Interesting. They shut down the US Geocities, but the Japanese one still...
georgative Learning resources 18 7,737 2010-04-19, 6:03 am
    Thread: Bringing SRS to University Students
Post: Bringing SRS to University Students

What you guys are doing is great! I've been making a deck for my Chinese Art History class. Maybe I'll talk to my professor about it. I hope you guys have started a trend. Who knows maybe this will c...
georgative Learning resources 34 5,953 2010-04-16, 4:06 am
    Thread: Better sleep with F.lux
Post: Better sleep with F.lux

Shit. I was just typing out how cool this thing is, then I right clicked on it in the taskbar next to the clock and my computer spontaneously restarted... Now my computer turns back on, and the prog...
georgative Off topic 47 19,438 2010-03-06, 5:00 am
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

Hey, thanks for this guideline. Btw. You're Tae Kim deck is absolutely amazing. I'd recommend it to everyone. I'm just about at the Vocab part and I'm getting more and more confused as I keep trying...
georgative The Japanese language 712 401,407 2010-03-01, 12:38 am
    Thread: Anyway to restore a deck that Anki deleted?
Post: Anyway to restore a deck that Anki deleted?

btw, how do you do what danieldesu wanted to do properly? I'm always really scared about installing Anki on a new computer because I think it's gonna mess up my deck
georgative Learning resources 12 14,811 2010-02-27, 5:56 pm
    Thread: Why is this funny?
Post: Why is this funny?

It kinda looks like a medieval Norman haircut.
georgative The Japanese language 20 5,196 2010-02-27, 7:21 am
    Thread: Why is this funny?
Post: Why is this funny?

Whats with the kid's head? Are his brains coming out the back of his skull?
georgative The Japanese language 20 5,196 2010-02-27, 7:08 am
    Thread: JLPT1 but can't speak keigo
Post: JLPT1 but can't speak keigo

Out of curiosity. Does this TaeKim page cover it all? http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/honorific Or is it more complicated? I've been struggling with that page for a whole week. It's not...
georgative The Japanese language 40 16,444 2010-02-25, 4:21 am
    Thread: Learning Japanese while taking a heavy uni. degree
Post: Learning Japanese while taking a heavy uni. degree

I think the advice of waiting till after you get your degree isn't really good, because you're always going to be busy. Just time box Japanese, cut back on whatever else you waist your time on and wor...
georgative General discussion 32 6,583 2010-02-23, 10:09 pm
    Thread: Heisig's method, Remembering the kanji vol 1, 2 , 3 ...........?
Post: Heisig's method, Remembering the kanji vol 1, 2 , ...

Oh man.. I feel horrible for you Haruhi89 Can you imagine thinking there are ~200 kanji, then learned them all, and then finding out that NEVERMIND; you've got another 1800 to go...
georgative Remembering the Kanji 26 21,798 2010-02-23, 7:52 am
    Thread: What was the point of RTK?
Post: What was the point of RTK?

I get asked about RTK quite often, and I can never really explain what I got from it. I know I wouldn't be able to do japanese like am doing right now if it weren't for RTK, but it's a little hard to ...
georgative Remembering the Kanji 4 1,423 2010-02-23, 6:13 am
    Thread: My Story
Post: My Story

This is a reoccurring theme. I spent about a 2 years on and off doing Pimsleur and just like for you, it was all pretty much a waist of time. I had this idea that I could somehow learn how to speak Ja...
georgative General discussion 3 943 2010-02-18, 3:25 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Congratulations! I tried stopping for a couple of days when I was doing RTK and I found A day's break = at least 2 days of catch up.
georgative Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,651 2010-02-13, 1:03 am
    Thread: One rat race after another...
Post: One rat race after another...

mezbup Wrote:Make a Do-Not-Do-Ever-Again-List. Put enough stuff on that and you'll have a lot more time free. This! My general criteria is that if I'm doing something for more than an hour a day (li...
georgative Off topic 47 7,071 2010-02-10, 6:44 am
    Thread: I feel like I'm doing something wrong...
Post: I feel like I'm doing something wrong...

mezbup Wrote:Happens to me too but yeah, as you develop a firmer grasp on reading kanji it will come to you a bit easier. That's what I hoping for! After a while the characters start to repeat and it'...
georgative The Japanese language 16 5,247 2010-02-07, 7:29 pm
    Thread: I feel like I'm doing something wrong...
Post: I feel like I'm doing something wrong...

Thanks for all the feedback. Looks like I'm doing okay then I'm using Nukemarine's deck. I usually add the cards as I go along the page, but I generally don't remember most of them the next day (I fa...
georgative The Japanese language 16 5,247 2010-02-07, 7:27 pm
    Thread: I feel like I'm doing something wrong...
Post: I feel like I'm doing something wrong...

I feel like I'm doing something wrong... I study for about 2-3 hours a day (of those 1.5-2 of actual studying) and I get through about 1 page of Tae Kim a day. I do about 50 cards a day + I add about...
georgative The Japanese language 16 5,247 2010-02-07, 9:30 am
    Thread: Accounting with an SRS
Post: Accounting with an SRS

I think if you studied something like Organic Chemistry, where you need to memorize zillions of amino acids and amines ethers and whatever SRS would work. But it's definitely not applicable to all cla...
georgative Off topic 11 3,288 2010-01-28, 2:27 pm
    Thread: Starting Tae Kim
Post: Starting Tae Kim

When you're vocab is literally zero, I think ko2001 is a little tough... And you can't really just read through Tae Kim without understanding the vocab he uses (but there isn't THAT much vocab since h...
georgative Learning resources 12 5,487 2009-12-12, 1:47 am
    Thread: Starting Tae Kim
Post: Starting Tae Kim

3 a day? damn.. =( I do one a day and it's hard. How long does 3 a day take you?
georgative Learning resources 12 5,487 2009-12-12, 12:08 am
    Thread: Breaking my immersion for an important question. About Keitai billing
Post: Breaking my immersion for an important question. ...

No, common. He wasn't using the service they provided, so it's not like they did something for him and then he didn't pay (well except for the equipment part). It's more like stealing train tickets ...
georgative General discussion 35 6,998 2009-12-08, 5:09 am