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    Thread: RTK3, Core2K, Tae Kim or Genki???
Post: RTK3, Core2K, Tae Kim or Genki???

Thanks EratiK I think I'll open Genki back up tomorrow and then I'll look for a good Core2K deck. Also I'll check out the DoBJG tomorrow thanks much uisukii. I think I might place an order for the ...
tguk911 Remembering the Kanji 9 4,701 2013-06-08, 4:27 am
    Thread: RTK3, Core2K, Tae Kim or Genki???
Post: RTK3, Core2K, Tae Kim or Genki???

Thank you uisukii I find your advice very sound. I do think it would be a waste of a resource to just leave them sitting on my shelf. I did find Genki fun and useful at times I just don't know how use...
tguk911 Remembering the Kanji 9 4,701 2013-06-08, 3:46 am
    Thread: RTK3, Core2K, Tae Kim or Genki???
Post: RTK3, Core2K, Tae Kim or Genki???

I didn't really know where to post this, I haven't been on the forum in awhile but I just finished RTK1 last night finally after 9 months(I kinda had to slow down after the holidays for personal reaso...
tguk911 Remembering the Kanji 9 4,701 2013-06-07, 11:01 pm
    Thread: Compare your Anki Graphs
Post: Compare your Anki Graphs

Yeah that's what I thought so like if my options are Again(<10m), Hard(8d), Good(17d), and Easy(22nd) and I click Good(17d) then that would be added to the 17 days interval.
tguk911 Learning resources 45 14,729 2012-11-15, 2:36 am
    Thread: Compare your Anki Graphs
Post: Compare your Anki Graphs

http://bayimg.com/oAFEoAaeP I've only been using anki 2 for a couple months now and I get what all the graphs are except the interval is that the time between the steps i.e good(1d)-easy(17d) or somet...
tguk911 Learning resources 45 14,729 2012-11-14, 4:30 pm
    Thread: Replacement for my ex-word: any suggestions?
Post: Replacement for my ex-word: any suggestions?

My friend has one of the newer casio ex-word cost around $600 and it has so much stuff in it and so much stuff you don't need but I use an app called Japanese on my ipad. I got the app on sale for...
tguk911 Learning resources 24 7,799 2012-11-13, 5:49 am
    Thread: 行 Primitive - Going, Line, Column help
Post: 行 Primitive - Going, Line, Column help

Thanks guys for your input. Yea I might just turn it into going even though it's kinda abstract as long as I remember iku it will prob come to me. But I also was searching the meanings of some radical...
tguk911 Remembering the Kanji 3 1,314 2012-11-12, 5:53 pm
    Thread: 行 Primitive - Going, Line, Column help
Post: 行 Primitive - Going, Line, Column help

I'm having problems with this primitive it has so many different meanings and you learn them all at once. I think it would have been better if he introduced this earlier and then placed a couple here ...
tguk911 Remembering the Kanji 3 1,314 2012-11-11, 3:09 pm
    Thread: How to learn Cursive Script? 草書, etc...
Post: How to learn Cursive Script? 草書, etc...

I've been looking all over on this subject also and also japanese calligraphy and am probably going to purchase the renshu-cho books on whiterabbitexpress that potbellypig suggested but I also found a...
tguk911 The Japanese language 20 8,477 2012-10-24, 3:08 pm
    Thread: RTK and Anki
Post: RTK and Anki

Thanks for the advice guys I just downloaded the beta for Anki 2 which is pretty different but not to hard to figure out once you get to know what everything means. I left the default for the steps fo...
tguk911 Learning resources 4 1,027 2012-09-24, 1:44 pm
    Thread: RTK and Anki
Post: RTK and Anki

So I've just started RTK vol. 1 and I'm just curious on how I should use anki in conjunction with my learning or if anyone has any advice. For example I want to get an idea of how long people usually ...
tguk911 Learning resources 4 1,027 2012-09-23, 6:15 pm
    Thread: Where To Start?
Post: Where To Start?

I just typed in Japanese Dictionary and it was on the first page its still called Japanese and I don't know how it used to look but yeah thats what it says now in white.
tguk911 The Japanese language 22 5,643 2012-09-20, 12:07 am
    Thread: Where To Start?
Post: Where To Start?

Yeah I was surprised it was only 5 bucks and had the most reviews and looked way better than the 20 dollar ones. The only one that I saw that also looked good was the midori for 10 bucks but I felt li...
tguk911 The Japanese language 22 5,643 2012-09-19, 9:55 pm
    Thread: Where To Start?
Post: Where To Start?

Thanks everyone for giving me great resources and what I think will be a solid way to start. Event if everything doesn't go so smoothly it will not all be for naught and I'll just find a way that work...
tguk911 The Japanese language 22 5,643 2012-09-19, 6:21 pm
    Thread: Where To Start?
Post: Where To Start?

Thanks guy for all your input. Yeah I kinda thought I wouldn't really need any of the books before I posted it but I'm glad I did just in case I found a really good one that everyone seems to use. Hy...
tguk911 The Japanese language 22 5,643 2012-09-18, 1:50 pm
    Thread: Where To Start?
Post: Where To Start?

Thanks EratiK for the book insight and the links I'll def be using them frequently. Also when you said I didn't need a kanji dictionary, we're you talking about the electronic one also or just the one...
tguk911 The Japanese language 22 5,643 2012-09-17, 7:45 pm
    Thread: Where To Start?
Post: Where To Start?

Thanks for all the advice everyone. Thanks ardent for those links, I like the study methods and teaching philosophies given by them(more so for Japaneselevelup just cause I'm a big gamer myself). I do...
tguk911 The Japanese language 22 5,643 2012-09-17, 4:10 pm
    Thread: Where To Start?
Post: Where To Start?

Hello everybody I'm trying to teach myself Japanese I'm 25 and live in NY and have always wanted to do so. I want to learn to be fluent in Japanese and learn to read/write/speak it. I don't have any t...
tguk911 The Japanese language 22 5,643 2012-09-17, 5:25 am