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    Thread: This is kind of funny (some reviews by Roy Miller)
Post: This is kind of funny (some reviews by Roy Miller)

I've seen several of these reviews elsewhere and I do broadly agree with yudantaiteki, but I did enjoy this line: Quote:I suspect that O’Neill’s new system for arranging Chinese characters will be ver...
Sauzer Off topic 8 1,579 2015-03-09, 10:51 pm
    Thread: The best supplement when reviewing 2k?
Post: The best supplement when reviewing 2k?

caffeine
Sauzer Learning resources 6 897 2015-03-08, 10:22 pm
    Thread: Having Trouble studying
Post: Having Trouble studying

I would set down the JLPT study book and just read real Japanese for a bit. Comics, news, whatever - you will get a more natural feel for the grammar and it won't be such a painful slog. Then when y...
Sauzer JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 6 1,755 2015-01-13, 7:23 pm
    Thread: Got 500+Kanji! ...but now I have to slow the pace. =( Suggestions?
Post: Got 500+Kanji! ...but now I have to slow the pace....

I finished RTK1 at a pace of 20 a day and even with several hours to do it, the new cards plus reviews sometimes did seem hopelessly too much. The main thing though is to keep moving, because that bo...
Sauzer Remembering the Kanji 6 2,023 2015-01-08, 7:57 am
    Thread: modifying keywords
Post: modifying keywords

Yes, I had the same issue. I started using a second field on the question side of the card that had a word or two that used the keyword (obviously with all or part in kana) so as to disambiguate thos...
Sauzer Remembering the Kanji 13 3,910 2015-01-04, 6:20 pm
    Thread: The real meaning of primitives?
Post: The real meaning of primitives?

Keep in mind that some of what Heisig calls primitives are not "real" elements, or at least not in the ones used as radicals in the tradition started by the Kangxi dictionary. However, I think this i...
Sauzer The Japanese language 1 539 2015-01-03, 6:53 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Congratulations!
Sauzer Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,523 2015-01-03, 8:35 am
    Thread: AnkiEmperor - Build your own empire (aka AnkiWarrior 2.0)
Post: AnkiEmperor - Build your own empire (aka AnkiWarri...

Is there a way to reset window position or something? I seem to have lost the AnkiEmperor popup window itself. I get the notice pop ups (100 cards, new daily record, etc) but I cannot see the main p...
Sauzer Learning resources 180 52,970 2015-01-01, 8:06 pm
    Thread: Micro-story Tumblr
Post: Micro-story Tumblr

john555 Wrote:gaiaslastlaugh Wrote:Author Hoshio Sanae writes 140-character stories, records them, and posts them to Tumblr (with transcripts). Great micro-listening practice, especially if you're jus...
Sauzer Learning resources 10 1,881 2015-01-01, 7:46 pm
    Thread: How to Better Focus When Studying?
Post: How to Better Focus When Studying?

Yeah I use a blocker app. http://www.proginosko.com/leechblock.html is great in my experience, but I imagine most any of the similar plugins would help. You can dodge any of these blocking extension...
Sauzer General discussion 20 5,810 2014-12-28, 10:43 pm
    Thread: *Sigh* which one should I use?
Post: *Sigh* which one should I use?

I like to see what the people on ja wikipedia are using in article titles and bodies. In this case, お見舞い
Sauzer The Japanese language 5 1,063 2014-12-28, 3:06 pm
    Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji
Post: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji

tetsueda Wrote:Found this gem in 漢検合格ノート一級: http://i.imgur.com/5aUbMMO.png For those wondering it's read あさる (same meaning as 漁る, I guess), but I can't find this 漢字 in either 漢検漢字辞典 or 漢検一級完全征服, so ...
Sauzer The Japanese language 60 13,768 2014-12-28, 3:00 pm
    Thread: How many new cards do you add a day?
Post: How many new cards do you add a day?

cophnia61 Wrote:What is the content of your deck? Words? You add 100 a day? Wow ._. I envy you! They said 100 additions but only 220ish daily reviews. So I'm thinking they were on like day 4 when the...
Sauzer General discussion 8 3,077 2014-12-28, 12:56 am
    Thread: Why does Heisig call this "useless information"?
Post: Why does Heisig call this "useless information"?

Heisig's method in RTK1 was what everyone thought was so fresh and useful. I think the old Deng Xiaoping line about Mao being "70 percent right, 30 percent wrong" applies to Heisig as well - especial...
Sauzer Remembering the Kanji 15 5,026 2014-12-26, 11:05 pm
    Thread: what to do?
Post: what to do?

anotherjohn Wrote:john555 Wrote:3) This is a query where I ask for a list of all the compounds studied so far where one of the kanji is pronounced "sei": 経政 economics I've only seen 経済 for that. it ...
Sauzer Off topic 41 10,278 2014-12-21, 11:16 pm
    Thread: Just finished RTK1
Post: Just finished RTK1

Inny Jan Wrote:john555 Wrote:I can do other cool queries too. You realise that with your MA you are reinventing the wheel, don't you? Anki search capabilities have been allowing for quering decks in v...
Sauzer Remembering the Kanji 12 4,721 2014-12-20, 8:51 pm
    Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji
Post: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji

DrJones Wrote:According to the data I got, the old form of 踏 is 蹈 http://glyphwiki.org/wiki/u8e48 Though now that you mention, I definitely made the wrong assumption that 沓 would likewise have the sa...
Sauzer The Japanese language 60 13,768 2014-12-20, 4:20 pm
    Thread: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji
Post: Unnecessary use of rare/obscure kanji

DrJones Wrote:爪+臼 is also the original version of 沓, as seen in 踏. I wouldn't call it simplification, as the current forms arguably have made recalling the kanji and the readings harder. Really, becau...
Sauzer The Japanese language 60 13,768 2014-12-20, 9:47 am
    Thread: what to do?
Post: what to do?

cophnia61 Wrote:but the core deck is like 160 reps today... I cannot keep it anymore hey you're having a better month than me then :P [Image: http://i.imgur.com/FQhlsBM.png] (thanksgiving day you are...
Sauzer Off topic 41 10,278 2014-12-20, 9:37 am
    Thread: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon!
Post: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon!

I probably didn't get n2 this year. I felt the listening was what killed me, but I knew it would be that way at least. On to 2015!
Sauzer JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 193 37,243 2014-12-07, 9:18 pm
    Thread: Kanjis you have mastered - set them to "learned"?
Post: Kanjis you have mastered - set them to "learned"?

The idea behind SRS is that you will only see the card again when the algorithm thinks you're likely to forget it anyway. If you're so good at that card that it really doesn't need to be seen for awh...
Sauzer Remembering the Kanji 3 1,579 2014-12-06, 2:59 pm
    Thread: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon!
Post: December 2014 JLPT signups coming soon!

dc n2 let's DO this
Sauzer JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 193 37,243 2014-12-06, 2:58 pm
    Thread: Did anyone take a break at the 1000 mark?
Post: Did anyone take a break at the 1000 mark?

Everybody seems to hit a wall somewhere in the 1xxx area. The only thing I can say though is that any time I've let up on new additions (be it in RTK1 or Anki, anything) and just done reviews, my mot...
Sauzer Remembering the Kanji 20 4,376 2014-10-27, 10:12 pm
    Thread: I'm looking for a single reading passage using all 2,136 kanji
Post: I'm looking for a single reading passage using all...

Jackdaw Wrote:Just the concept of a reading passage containing all of the jouyou is absurd enough that I'd bet it actually exists as an obscure poem. What a poem it would be too, simply considering ho...
Sauzer The Japanese language 13 3,879 2014-10-26, 12:46 am
    Thread: Systemically deleting vocab cards?
Post: Systemically deleting vocab cards?

I like xbox 360 controller + xpadder and mapping the 4 main buttons to the 4 answers
Sauzer The Japanese language 23 3,577 2014-10-21, 8:47 pm
    Thread: What are the worst / best things you've done for studying?
Post: What are the worst / best things you've done for s...

Nyanda Wrote:Worst: - Reading forums Best: - Not reading forums this this this this
Sauzer General discussion 33 9,199 2014-10-21, 8:46 pm
    Thread: Systemically deleting vocab cards?
Post: Systemically deleting vocab cards?

Maybe this is the Anki addition-addict in me talking but wouldn't it be more effort to dig through anki and pick which cards are REALLY worthy of deletion than to click Easy once every few years and s...
Sauzer The Japanese language 23 3,577 2014-10-19, 9:37 pm
    Thread: Paleolinguistics question: what did pre-Chinese Japanese sound like?
Post: Paleolinguistics question: what did pre-Chinese Ja...

I'm fairly sure the wago of today are descended more or less cleanly from the wago of old Japanese, so it probably sounded something like that, except with all the expected drift (which I think they c...
Sauzer The Japanese language 8 2,240 2014-10-15, 9:01 am
    Thread: Journal -- Conquering RTK LITE in 17 Days
Post: Journal -- Conquering RTK LITE in 17 Days

Vempele Wrote:硬 - 強硬, though I'm not entirely sure I've ever seen it. Don't forget 硬貨! datrukup Wrote:I'm postponing the rest of this journey until I have some more free time and have matured these a...
Sauzer The Japanese language 28 8,101 2014-10-14, 8:38 am
    Thread: Customized RTK1/3/KanKen準1級 Deck (Better Keywords/+Example Vocab)
Post: Customized RTK1/3/KanKen準1級 Deck (Better Keywords/...

ktcgx Wrote:Personally, I don't see the point of having J-keywords, since the whole point of RTK is to split up the various tasks you need to learn kanji (writing, reading, meaning) into manageable ch...
Sauzer Remembering the Kanji 29 10,890 2014-10-12, 10:34 pm