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    Thread: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre
Post: The Podcast Thread - Podcasts listed by genre

Anyone know of a good sports / sports-talk podcast? Thanks.
LucidFaia Learning resources 200 212,207 2013-02-05, 12:04 pm
    Thread: Worst Mistakes
Post: Worst Mistakes

Bothering with RTK for as long as I did. Too lenient with SRS grading at first; mature card pass rate was suboptimal. In general, my biggest ongoing mistake is not studying more.
LucidFaia General discussion 21 5,917 2012-05-06, 11:40 am
    Thread: Capture2Text - Japanese OCR Utility
Post: Capture2Text - Japanese OCR Utility

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/1117/tempqh.png As a test, I tried three times to scan this character and got the following results: .■ ■■ ■. エ 門 :(
LucidFaia Learning resources 111 85,392 2011-11-21, 2:32 am
    Thread: How to learn Japanese the right way
Post: How to learn Japanese the right way

Cheesemaster64 Wrote:I haven't checked on this site for over 6 months or so, and I was hoping for some interesting reads. While I did find some really good stuff, it is sad to see that this kind of us...
LucidFaia General discussion 141 26,344 2011-09-23, 10:16 pm
    Thread: AJATT Silverspoon- Thought's opinions?
Post: AJATT Silverspoon- Thought's opinions?

ruiner Wrote:@LucidFaia This is a form of projection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection It leads to wishful thinking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishful_thinking Such as payin...
LucidFaia Learning resources 145 39,802 2011-08-08, 8:49 pm
    Thread: AJATT Silverspoon- Thought's opinions?
Post: AJATT Silverspoon- Thought's opinions?

dtcamero Wrote:but maybe I should add that one nice thing about ajatt+ is that there are no bitter forum trolls Well put.
LucidFaia Learning resources 145 39,802 2011-08-08, 6:03 pm
    Thread: For anyone interested in AJATT..
Post: For anyone interested in AJATT..

nest0r Wrote:It was an accurate description of a disconnected reference that presumes a web guru's condescending sales gimmick as an ideal and spouts some overgeneralized, highly contingent statement....
LucidFaia General discussion 81 21,687 2011-06-24, 1:29 pm
    Thread: question about smart.fm's core 2000 series
Post: question about smart.fm's core 2000 series

Superfreek Wrote:Thanks for the help. The most disappointing thing to me was how fast I was progressing. I really was "in the zone". Now I feel like I'm starting over again. I can see why they dei...
LucidFaia Learning resources 17 8,707 2011-06-16, 10:58 am
    Thread: Could you learn Japanese in just 3-6 months?
Post: Could you learn Japanese in just 3-6 months?

Depends on what you mean by "learning Japanese." I think a lot of the ones crying "impossible" are RTK-minded people who think that learning thousands of kanji is a necessary step to learning Japanese...
LucidFaia The Japanese language 131 43,167 2011-05-15, 5:47 am
    Thread: Stroke order for 凸 and 凹
Post: Stroke order for 凸 and 凹

Just try to remember that both have 5 strokes. That might help.
LucidFaia The Japanese language 13 5,627 2011-04-30, 4:53 pm
    Thread: Japanese games without kanji?
Post: Japanese games without kanji?

I wish EarthBound had kanji. =\
LucidFaia General discussion 14 16,195 2011-04-13, 11:14 pm
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

aphasiac Wrote:kana -> kanji cards are designed for writing production, and as such are not so useful for a complete beginner. You can suspend them for now. Agreed. I think that drilling both vocab...
LucidFaia The Japanese language 712 401,380 2011-04-11, 6:45 pm
    Thread: "Don't repeat my mistakes" thread
Post: "Don't repeat my mistakes" thread

nadiatims Wrote:beginner: DON'T: spend more than 10% of your study time in SRS. bother making sentence decks be obsessed with remembering everything use smartfm, jpod101, random youtube lessons etc W...
LucidFaia General discussion 135 48,922 2011-02-18, 6:30 pm
    Thread: Am I the only one that can't stand drama?
Post: Am I the only one that can't stand drama?

wccrawford Wrote:Watch the first 3 eps of Dragon Zakura. It's the least cheezy show I can think of. It's kind of like House MD, but he's a teacher and not so nasty. In other words, he's extremely c...
LucidFaia General discussion 43 12,974 2011-01-30, 4:46 pm
    Thread: 7-Year Progress Report
Post: 7-Year Progress Report

Forget teaching English. You should get to the point where you can teach Japanese to the Japanese. =)
LucidFaia General discussion 12 3,736 2010-12-15, 5:00 pm
    Thread: The Discouragement Thread
Post: The Discouragement Thread

Some of these are rather amusing. There are plenty of ambitious people that get laughed at. The successful ones are the ones that don't care. I wouldn't worry about what others think - especially sel...
LucidFaia Off topic 311 69,113 2010-12-10, 10:26 pm