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Thread: Movie Method after RTK 1? Post: Movie Method after RTK 1? I've been using a modified movie method for learning onyomi and it works quite fine. Like Nukemarine, I picked a movie and linked the readings to it. So everytime I come across a new reading, I connec... |
timcampbell | The Japanese language | 16 | 3,026 | 2009-03-20, 7:27 am | ||
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Thread: 100 Kanji A Day Project -- the report. Post: 100 Kanji A Day Project -- the report. I finished the last 1000 in a burst last Christmas holidays, pulling about 100 a day. I don't think it really affected my recall - just be prepared for massive amounts of reviews that won't subside fo... |
timcampbell | General discussion | 36 | 13,042 | 2009-03-18, 9:11 am | ||
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Thread: Remembering the words of the story or the mental image? Post: Remembering the words of the story or the mental i... Generally I found a powerful mental image worked best, yet others times a sentence was so perfeectly formed it was hard to forget. Whatever works. |
timcampbell | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 1,339 | 2009-02-21, 10:51 am | ||
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Thread: Tim's big Beijing adventure Post: Tim's big Beijing adventure OK, so I finally get to the point where RTK and AJATT are starting to pay off and my Japanese is advancing like crazy and what happens? I get a job in Beijing. SCREEEEECH. Turn the Titanic around!! ... |
timcampbell | Off topic | 1 | 598 | 2009-02-19, 11:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Sentences before finishing Post: Sentences before finishing If 10 kanji a day is optimal for you, I'd say stick with it. You know yourself better than we do, and if trying to force more into your brain only causes you to forget more, it's not worth it. With ... |
timcampbell | Remembering the Kanji | 16 | 2,288 | 2009-02-19, 8:31 am | ||
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Thread: Views on Other Forums and the Culture Shock Relation Post: Views on Other Forums and the Culture Shock Relati... I believe Tobberoth's girlfriend speaks Japanese as well ... |
timcampbell | Off topic | 82 | 10,449 | 2009-02-17, 1:08 pm | ||
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Thread: The best way to learn a foreign language is to go to a foreign country Post: The best way to learn a foreign language is to go ... It does become second nature. The two biggest obstacles to learning Chinese are the tones and the kanji. You already have the kanji down, and the tones will come with time, they will start to "click."... |
timcampbell | General discussion | 113 | 21,674 | 2009-02-17, 1:06 pm | ||
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Thread: The best way to learn a foreign language is to go to a foreign country Post: The best way to learn a foreign language is to go ... wccrawford Wrote:They even did a study where they exposed a child to Chinese sounds that English speakers can't differentiate, and the child grew up able to differentiate them. I agree with this, with... |
timcampbell | General discussion | 113 | 21,674 | 2009-02-17, 11:35 am | ||
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Thread: 日本語中級会話 (Japanese Only) Post: 日本語中級会話 (Japanese Only) ビョンビョンという意味は飛び出すだけどそんなによく使わない。 ピョンピョンはうさぎの音です。よく使うけど子供の単語です。 「ビョン」と「ピョン」はパソコンで読めると混同するのはやりやすい |
timcampbell | General discussion | 237 | 101,079 | 2009-02-17, 2:04 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese and Martial Arts Post: Japanese and Martial Arts 飲む技の九段 |
timcampbell | General discussion | 43 | 6,301 | 2009-02-17, 1:27 am | ||
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Thread: Regarding the English skills of Japanese people Post: Regarding the English skills of Japanese people Jarvik7 Wrote:timcampbell: I actually do have these kinds of conversations in pubs :D I'm stumbling distance from the Dover Arms if you're ever in town :) |
timcampbell | General discussion | 168 | 23,223 | 2009-02-15, 1:57 pm | ||
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Thread: Regarding the English skills of Japanese people Post: Regarding the English skills of Japanese people kazelee Wrote:timcampbell Wrote:If we look at the children of immigrants, for example, you will find many who can understand their parents' native language, because they have heard it from the time th... |
timcampbell | General discussion | 168 | 23,223 | 2009-02-15, 12:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Regarding the English skills of Japanese people Post: Regarding the English skills of Japanese people @musigny While I agree that lots of input is a tremendous way to learn, and that we often force students to speak too much too early, simple input does not equal output. If we look at the children of... |
timcampbell | General discussion | 168 | 23,223 | 2009-02-15, 11:32 am | ||
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Thread: Regarding the English skills of Japanese people Post: Regarding the English skills of Japanese people musigny Wrote:I spoke to a Chinese person today who studied English for six years in school and has lived in an English-speaking country for four. Very nice woman. Her pronunciation is quite poor and ... |
timcampbell | General discussion | 168 | 23,223 | 2009-02-15, 3:30 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese names (study tip) Post: Japanese names (study tip) I've started occasionally replacing the "he" or "she" in a sentence with the name of a person I want to learn. I works quite well. It's an easy way to learn names without having to purposely study the... |
timcampbell | Learning resources | 30 | 8,835 | 2009-02-14, 11:15 am | ||
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Thread: Hard to actually learn words Post: Hard to actually learn words Like Jarvik7, (maybe its an Edmonton thing) I had rhubarb in my backyard ... and strawberry rhubarb pie is delicious. Rhubarb crumble as well. |
timcampbell | Remembering the Kanji | 74 | 15,761 | 2009-02-10, 11:25 am | ||
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Thread: Albertan Jgo Benyou-ers? Post: Albertan Jgo Benyou-ers? Hm .... I grew up in Edmonton, went to U of A and Grant McEwan, did my drunks in Old Scona, RATT and HUB, lived in Medicine Hat for seven years working for their paper and I've been through every part... |
timcampbell | Off topic | 9 | 1,408 | 2009-02-07, 12:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Learn vocabulary in most-used-kanji order Post: Learn vocabulary in most-used-kanji order jokoto Wrote:I was also considering a sentence method but thanks to relying completely on heisig method I neither know vocabulary nor grammar. I'd consider getting some grammar studies done along with... |
timcampbell | General discussion | 9 | 3,290 | 2009-02-06, 10:15 am | ||
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Thread: Meditations on Anki stats Post: Meditations on Anki stats @ mentat_kgs Interesting stats to compare. You're much more kanji heavy than me, it appears. I actually have a lot of katakana words (boo, hiss), so that makes sense. |
timcampbell | General discussion | 7 | 2,641 | 2009-02-03, 9:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Meditations on Anki stats Post: Meditations on Anki stats Here are my Anki stats as of this morning: The 7062 seen cards in this deck contain: 1227 total unique kanji. Jouyou: 1142 of 1945 (58.7%). Jinmeiyou: 18 of 287 (6.3%). 67 non-jouyou kanji. Jouyou l... |
timcampbell | General discussion | 7 | 2,641 | 2009-02-03, 4:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Favorite Movie or Show Post: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Fa... I'm normally more selective about what I put into Anki, sometimes so reviews don't pile up, but in a case like this because the effort to manually input it would be huge. I'm about 250 cards through t... |
timcampbell | Learning resources | 1,039 | 387,033 | 2009-02-03, 1:08 am | ||
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Thread: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Favorite Movie or Show Post: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Fa... Though this is a great tool, I suspect swapping files will be limited. Since what you are doing is effectively memorizing every line in a movie, you're only going to do it with real favourites, since ... |
timcampbell | Learning resources | 1,039 | 387,033 | 2009-02-02, 11:21 pm | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method Doesn't Khatz also recommend Tae Kim's guide? It would seem to me what he's warning about is the excessive use of grammar and explanation books, which all of us have seen ESL students use, and far to... |
timcampbell | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,029 | 2009-02-01, 11:55 am | ||
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Thread: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Favorite Movie or Show Post: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Fa... Tobberoth Wrote:Won't the import files be quite enormous? I mean, just look at a random subtitle file, it's generally several hundred lines of dialogue. Getting through just one movie would probably t... |
timcampbell | Learning resources | 1,039 | 387,033 | 2009-02-01, 11:49 am | ||
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Thread: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Favorite Movie or Show Post: Use subs2srs to Create Anki Decks Based on Your Fa... Just want to say I'm 100 cards into this deck already and the file works brilliantly. It's such a great tool, with maybe the best potential of any I've used. It provides natural native sound files, wi... |
timcampbell | Learning resources | 1,039 | 387,033 | 2009-02-01, 2:37 am | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method If we can judge Khatz' accomplishments by what he writes in his blog, I think his acheivements are admirable. As far as I remember, though, he only said that in 18 months he got to the level of Japane... |
timcampbell | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,029 | 2009-01-30, 10:21 pm | ||
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Thread: The I love learning Japanese thread. Post: The I love learning Japanese thread. Thora Wrote:KristinHolly Wrote:If only I had known earlier that picking up Japanese girls was the only legitimate reason to study Japanese . . . Thora Wrote:I study Japanese so that I can pick up Japa... |
timcampbell | Off topic | 71 | 13,032 | 2009-01-30, 1:01 pm | ||
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Thread: The I love learning Japanese thread. Post: The I love learning Japanese thread. Thora Wrote:KristenHolly - I study Japanese so that I can pick up Japanese guys. I have trouble picking up guys in my own country. I suspect that they're probably only with me for my nationality, but ... |
timcampbell | Off topic | 71 | 13,032 | 2009-01-30, 3:03 am | ||
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Thread: Does anybody ever feel like this? Post: Does anybody ever feel like this? It happens to me if I get a phonecall at work from a Japanese friend. I'll immediately switch into Japanese, since I'm quite comfortable in it and don't feel self-conscious. Sometimes co-workers will ... |
timcampbell | Off topic | 34 | 4,219 | 2009-01-29, 11:44 pm | ||
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Thread: The I love learning Japanese thread. Post: The I love learning Japanese thread. snispilbor Wrote:I was really saddened when I realized this, but it seems like most Japanese girls (including my GF) would much rather talk in English. English is sexy and exotic to them. I used to ... |
timcampbell | Off topic | 71 | 13,032 | 2009-01-29, 11:36 pm | ||
