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Thread: AFATT -> all french all the time Post: AFATT -> all french all the time I kind of do AFATT... at least I try to. (This message board, obviously, is not in French.) I look at a lot of cooking blogs, and there are many that are french only or have all posts in either frenc... |
Samsara | General discussion | 19 | 7,034 | 2009-02-12, 12:33 pm | ||
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Thread: sudden, huge drop in new kanji "passed" percentages Post: sudden, huge drop in new kanji "passed" percentage... I wouldn't worry about it. Worrying will just cause you to actually do worse because you'll be focused more on the stress factor than the goal. Your goal isn't to score a certain percentage-- your goa... |
Samsara | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 2,388 | 2008-10-31, 7:06 pm | ||
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Thread: What language are you going to learn after Japanese? Post: What language are you going to learn after Japanes... Most likely, I'll go on a Spanish learning spurt like I always do, because I feel like I have to learn it. The neighborhood I live in is almost entirely Spanish and I feel like an idiot because I can'... |
Samsara | Off topic | 51 | 9,082 | 2008-10-28, 6:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? Post: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? That's awesome. Considering that such a high portion of your class studied abroad it sounds like you did have some dedicated students. This class is for 3rd and 4th year students, but because it's tau... |
Samsara | General discussion | 221 | 36,156 | 2008-10-18, 10:56 am | ||
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Thread: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? Post: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? Ji_suss Wrote:Well, gee Samsara, nobody is paying attention to the two cute Japanese girls...? Looks like an opportunity to me. I don't even walk on that side of the classroom anymore since the day th... |
Samsara | General discussion | 221 | 36,156 | 2008-10-18, 10:12 am | ||
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Thread: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? Post: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? I'm not actually in school, I'm just taking the class. The school that I did graduate from didn't even offer Japanese, so I was excited to see what I had missed out on. Guess I didn't miss much. |
Samsara | General discussion | 221 | 36,156 | 2008-10-18, 9:59 am | ||
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Thread: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? Post: Horror Stories of Japanese Class? This semester I'm back in school for the first time in years, taking a class about Japan that's taught in English. Many of the people in the class are Japanese majors and I've been surprised about som... |
Samsara | General discussion | 221 | 36,156 | 2008-10-18, 8:58 am | ||
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Thread: Google Chrome Tips Post: Google Chrome Tips ファブリス Wrote:One very cool thing in Google Chrome is you don't loose the text you have typed into various forms (eg. posting on forum) if you happened to click in the wrong place and load another page.... |
Samsara | General discussion | 40 | 28,230 | 2008-10-17, 11:41 am | ||
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Thread: iKnow Post: iKnow My favorite thing is that calendar that suggests, "You should study 20 more items today." I wonder if I had a third party constantly telling me, "You should study 10 more kanji today," if I would have... |
Samsara | Learning resources | 599 | 117,001 | 2008-10-17, 11:37 am | ||
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Thread: How long have you been studying Japanese? Post: How long have you been studying Japanese? Since the end of June. I've started off slowly and it's only in the last two weeks or so that I work on it every day. I've done almost only kanji during that time, adding a few sentences into my SRS... |
Samsara | General discussion | 27 | 10,691 | 2008-10-16, 8:08 am | ||
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Thread: Grammar Tests? Post: Grammar Tests? Does anyone know of a website that tests / drills grammar? The only one that I know offhand is the JLPT Study guide but it's still not quite what I'm looking for. (http://www.jlptstudy.com/4/index.ht... |
Samsara | Learning resources | 1 | 619 | 2008-10-14, 8:24 am | ||
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Thread: Sort By Number of Fails? Post: Sort By Number of Fails? None of the most missed kanji (entrust, remorse, etc) really lend themselves to visuals. They're all primarily mental actions or feelings. |
Samsara | Remembering the Kanji | 19 | 3,695 | 2008-10-12, 1:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Sort By Number of Fails? Post: Sort By Number of Fails? bobince Wrote:It would be interesting to be able to sort on *everyone*'s aggregated fails - let's see which kanji really are difficult! We could just start a post for most failed kanji. Right now I h... |
Samsara | Remembering the Kanji | 19 | 3,695 | 2008-10-11, 7:42 am | ||
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Thread: Time to study Japanese? Post: Time to study Japanese? I got to a point where I felt like I had absolutely no time to study Japanese. I decided that a little time was better than no time at all, so I started going into work ten minutes later and used that... |
Samsara | General discussion | 24 | 5,057 | 2008-10-09, 9:02 pm | ||
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Thread: 30 Kanji a day, any advice on keeping up? Post: 30 Kanji a day, any advice on keeping up? I used to write each of them out, then I stopped because I was lazy. Then I realized that it was taking me more time to draw them with a finger in the air than it did to actually write them. Plus if y... |
Samsara | Remembering the Kanji | 37 | 9,068 | 2008-10-09, 6:50 pm | ||
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Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Finally made it to this last leg of the journey. I started a tennis class this week and it did major damage to my study time, so this last week was horrible. I really had to force myself to study in ... |
Samsara | Remembering the Kanji | 462 | 138,197 | 2008-10-03, 5:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Places to buy Japanese things? Post: Places to buy Japanese things? rich_f Wrote:One thing to keep in mind-- US-based booksellers often have HUGE markups on books. Kinokuniya in NY and the Japan Shop both have marked up some of the books I bought by a lot. ... So that... |
Samsara | Learning resources | 36 | 9,787 | 2008-10-03, 11:16 am | ||
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Thread: The importance of stories Post: The importance of stories I imagine that it's possible to just memorize them all, but in the long run it might not be as effective. Once you get more kanji under your belt, you will have more chances of confusing them. For ins... |
Samsara | Remembering the Kanji | 21 | 3,053 | 2008-09-26, 11:36 pm | ||
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Thread: Mechanically difficult kanji Post: Mechanically difficult kanji emily00 Wrote:Also for some reason whenever I write 子, even though an extremely simple kanji, it NEVER, ever looks right. I fail. I am so with you there. I actually managed to write it yesterday witho... |
Samsara | Remembering the Kanji | 51 | 15,575 | 2008-09-19, 4:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Writing grid size? Post: Writing grid size? I have a cutsey Japanese school notebook, and I think that each larger grid square is 10mm x 10mm. Inside each larger grid square are 4 smaller squares that are 5mm squared. |
Samsara | Learning resources | 2 | 1,503 | 2008-09-16, 6:14 pm | ||
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Thread: So what alternative primitives did you use? Post: So what alternative primitives did you use? plumage Wrote:I thought it was really dumb to introduce the kanji for snake and then within 2 pages have a (*) primitive that ALSO meant snake, yet looked nothing like the actual snake kanji. Yeah, I ... |
Samsara | Remembering the Kanji | 67 | 22,098 | 2008-09-14, 10:42 am | ||
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Thread: Input vs Output Post: Input vs Output Mcjon01 Wrote:I don't think the input over output argument says that you shouldn't ever have any output at all, or that you should just magically go from no Japanese to perfect Japanese. I do, howeve... |
Samsara | General discussion | 36 | 5,548 | 2008-09-08, 6:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Input vs Output Post: Input vs Output I think the problem that we struggle with is that you can't effectively (imho) work on your output using an SRS. Say you create a flashcard with an L1 sentence as the question and a translation in the... |
Samsara | General discussion | 36 | 5,548 | 2008-09-07, 10:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Input vs Output Post: Input vs Output I know how you feel Zarxrax. I can read French perfectly fine-- probably at about 95% comprehension (and faster than some of my native friends). And I've been doing it for YEARS. But my conversation i... |
Samsara | General discussion | 36 | 5,548 | 2008-09-06, 7:15 pm | ||
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Thread: RTK 1 Advice? Post: RTK 1 Advice? I went through the first few chapters very quickly, using very few stories. I just remembered most of the kanji on sight. However, once I got further along, I ran into a lot of problems with interfern... |
Samsara | Remembering the Kanji | 7 | 1,335 | 2008-09-05, 12:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Do I honestly NEED the book? Post: Do I honestly NEED the book? This site doesn't describe any of the primitives used in the stories. Many of the stories here are based off of the primitives or stories that Heisig gives, so you might not fully grasp them without ... |
Samsara | Remembering the Kanji | 50 | 11,598 | 2008-08-30, 9:38 am | ||
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Thread: Heisig's word choices: adjective, noun, verb, which is it? Post: Heisig's word choices: adjective, noun, verb, whi... I usually look these type of things up, because as nets0r says, it helps me remember it better. Sometimes one of the keywords given in my dictionary will just make so much more sense for me, or relate... |
Samsara | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 4,148 | 2008-08-23, 9:59 am | ||
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Thread: The Discouragement Thread Post: The Discouragement Thread My least favorite question is "Why?" because I just cannot answer that. If you could understand why I'm studying Japanese, then you wouldn't need to ask the question. If you've never studied a foreign... |
Samsara | Off topic | 311 | 69,121 | 2008-08-16, 6:59 am | ||
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Thread: Wanting to try something out. Where I could find list of readings? Post: Wanting to try something out. Where I could find l... Anki should be able to generate the reading for you... |
Samsara | Remembering the Kanji | 5 | 1,494 | 2008-08-05, 4:55 pm | ||
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Thread: So what alternative primitives did you use? Post: So what alternative primitives did you use? For 莫 I used "vast emptiness." I couldn't remember any of his graveyard ones what so ever, so I looked in my dictionary to see how the kanji was really used. That's where I came up with "vast emptines... |
Samsara | Remembering the Kanji | 67 | 22,098 | 2008-07-17, 4:45 pm | ||