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Thread: Do people want to buy affordable japanese manga & books? Post: Do people want to buy affordable japanese manga & ... Hello, I am curious if anyone would be interested in a used books/manga service that could offer reasonably priced books/manga in decent condition from Japan? Do you guys have any experience with bu... |
scuda | Learning resources | 21 | 9,988 | 2011-01-31, 10:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Considering just quitting half way and mining source material Post: Considering just quitting half way and mining sour... Doing 3-5 minutes per kanji sounds a bit long to me. Quantity/exposures over quality every time. Spend less time each time and repeat more frequently instead. Trust in the ole noggin. |
scuda | Remembering the Kanji | 23 | 5,841 | 2011-01-30, 11:44 am | ||
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Thread: Zeitgeist Moving Forward Post: Zeitgeist Moving Forward A couple of things: 1. The closest that we have gotten to capitalism was probably in the 19th & early 20th century (before 1930s), especially before fiat money. What we have nowadays can't be c... |
scuda | Off topic | 65 | 8,601 | 2011-01-30, 12:30 am | ||
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Thread: What is the best learning material(s) for $500? Post: What is the best learning material(s) for $500? Perhaps you can use that $500 to make a big impact on your personal environment. I.E. get rid of as much english stuff as possible and replace with japanese things, media, radio, etc. Maybe you... |
scuda | Learning resources | 24 | 4,954 | 2011-01-29, 11:20 am | ||
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Thread: Alternate/better keywords for RTK? Post: Alternate/better keywords for RTK? I agree, we need to focus on the keywords that are clearly wrong, and stick with the rest. After looking at the keywords this closely, I've gained more appreciation for the Heisig keywords. BTW, my ... |
scuda | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 6,349 | 2011-01-27, 5:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Alternate/better keywords for RTK? Post: Alternate/better keywords for RTK? I started going through katsuo's spreadsheet and cherry picking words depending on what halpern/kanjidamage & the other fields say and making sure they're unique etc. I ended up with something l... |
scuda | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 6,349 | 2011-01-27, 1:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Alternate/better keywords for RTK? Post: Alternate/better keywords for RTK? mafried, That looks very nice! I am curious, are most of your cards using multiple keywords? How many cards have you done? Any thoughts about single keyword vs multiple? |
scuda | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 6,349 | 2011-01-25, 8:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Have Scientists Finally Discovered Evidence for Psychic Phenomena? Post: Have Scientists Finally Discovered Evidence for Ps... "reach back in time to facilitate recall." Cognitively speaking, the brain often edits our memories retroactively. There's no causality issue here (altho judging from the quote, the author of the pa... |
scuda | Off topic | 33 | 9,097 | 2011-01-25, 2:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Alternate/better keywords for RTK? Post: Alternate/better keywords for RTK? mafried, I saw in another thread that you're using a mix of single keywords and multiple keywords where appropriate. Why don't you post your list up even if it's not finished, I'm too impatient to w... |
scuda | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 6,349 | 2011-01-25, 12:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Alternate/better keywords for RTK? Post: Alternate/better keywords for RTK? Yes, thanks! I remember now, I swapped town/village last time :) Another suggestion for that list: 呂 => backbone (apparently it's a better meaning) BTW, I was wondering... Why are we limi... |
scuda | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 6,349 | 2011-01-25, 12:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Alternate/better keywords for RTK? Post: Alternate/better keywords for RTK? Hello, I know there are people that have customized their RTK keywords, I recall that there are a couple cases of swapping keywords between kanji just to make them more suitable, as well as modifying... |
scuda | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 6,349 | 2011-01-24, 10:06 pm | ||
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Thread: Is english-to-kanji association really the way to go? Alternatives? Post: Is english-to-kanji association really the way to ... I think you guys have convinced me. I didn't realize how difficult going from hiragana to kanji would be. Can't think of any way to provide context besides the actual kanji themselves. However, the... |
scuda | The Japanese language | 20 | 3,804 | 2011-01-24, 2:18 am | ||
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Thread: Is english-to-kanji association really the way to go? Alternatives? Post: Is english-to-kanji association really the way to ... tokyostyle, That's true, since so many words would be identical if I was learning 2,000-3,000 words from hiragana only, I would need some way of providing context. Kanji could be one way, or the que... |
scuda | The Japanese language | 20 | 3,804 | 2011-01-24, 2:04 am | ||
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Thread: Is english-to-kanji association really the way to go? Alternatives? Post: Is english-to-kanji association really the way to ... Cranks, That's my goal too. To get fluent fast. I'm talking about removing an extra step that I see in the standard RTK process. |
scuda | The Japanese language | 20 | 3,804 | 2011-01-23, 10:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Is english-to-kanji association really the way to go? Alternatives? Post: Is english-to-kanji association really the way to ... I wanted to clarify something, there seems to be a bit of misunderstanding. The idea is to learn all of the necessary hiragana words FIRST. Then learn the kanji using japanese keywords that give you... |
scuda | The Japanese language | 20 | 3,804 | 2011-01-23, 9:46 pm | ||
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Thread: Is english-to-kanji association really the way to go? Alternatives? Post: Is english-to-kanji association really the way to ... I'm looking at the other posts out there about japanese keywords for RTK, so that might be what I want. You do raise a good point about having to learn the kanji anyways, and that the additional read... |
scuda | The Japanese language | 20 | 3,804 | 2011-01-23, 8:44 pm | ||
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Thread: Is english-to-kanji association really the way to go? Alternatives? Post: Is english-to-kanji association really the way to ... I meant "too easy" in the sense of being able to remember "新しい" == "あたらしい" in spite of the kanji, i.e. if the "しい" part could provide too much of a clue. But that entirely depends on the size of the ... |
scuda | The Japanese language | 20 | 3,804 | 2011-01-23, 8:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Is english-to-kanji association really the way to go? Alternatives? Post: Is english-to-kanji association really the way to ... Yes, I am talking about english-keyword to kanji. Part mnemonic, part meaning (sometimes).. |
scuda | The Japanese language | 20 | 3,804 | 2011-01-23, 7:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Is english-to-kanji association really the way to go? Alternatives? Post: Is english-to-kanji association really the way to ... I am a big believer in chunking the stuff down to 1-to-1 associations for learning. So RTK makes a lot of sense with the english-to-kanji association. However, the kanji also typically requires lear... |
scuda | The Japanese language | 20 | 3,804 | 2011-01-23, 6:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Are sentences or context really better than individual vocab? Post: Are sentences or context really better than indivi... Shouldn't we be doing 'Japanese Word' -> 'English Definition' for the first 5000 or 6000 most common words before moving onto sentences and learning the contexts? Going straight into sentences fro... |
scuda | General discussion | 23 | 5,968 | 2009-06-30, 5:09 pm | ||
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Thread: Starting over...too fast? Post: Starting over...too fast? Today it took me 34 minutes to do 164 reviews, and that was with a lot of hesitations on some kanjis, and fully writing it out etc. I'm very surprised to hear the 100 reviews = 1 hour bit. Go faster... |
scuda | General discussion | 9 | 1,832 | 2009-06-30, 4:38 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji Frequency in Wikipedia Post: Kanji Frequency in Wikipedia BTW, I found out that Mecab is supposed to be a superior parser to Chasen. I stumbled across some lemma/morphological paper that compared the two, and it basically said that Mecab handles lemmas bett... |
scuda | General discussion | 78 | 74,998 | 2009-06-29, 12:13 am | ||
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Thread: What are effective stories? Post: What are effective stories? Personally I find that focusing strictly on the primitives with no real story at all to be effective. Status is a Tree for Each. (frame 239) Twig is Walking over Tree. Status Quo is a Turtle & D... |
scuda | Remembering the Kanji | 33 | 6,534 | 2009-06-26, 2:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Chinese & Japanese Simultaneously? Post: Chinese & Japanese Simultaneously? What program requires 4 years chinese, 2 years classical chinese, and 3 years of japanese? It seems like a heckuva lot, could you give me a link? Here's a thought, and I have no idea if this is poss... |
scuda | The Japanese language | 26 | 8,455 | 2009-06-26, 9:55 am | ||
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Thread: Chinese & Japanese Simultaneously? Post: Chinese & Japanese Simultaneously? Sounds ambitious. Good luck :) Are you familiar with AJATT? Khatzumoto suggests a ladder method, where you learn language A, and then you learn language B using language A materials only. That way... |
scuda | The Japanese language | 26 | 8,455 | 2009-06-25, 9:58 pm | ||
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Thread: RTK Lite in Anki Post: RTK Lite in Anki (lost the file) |
scuda | Learning resources | 10 | 4,866 | 2009-06-25, 9:51 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji Frequency in Wikipedia Post: Kanji Frequency in Wikipedia shang Wrote:The unformatted raw list of 15,000 compounds can be viewed at http://shang.pp.fi/public/kanji/jawp-compounds.csv, but I'll put a prettier, pruned version in Google docs at some point (poss... |
scuda | General discussion | 78 | 74,998 | 2009-06-23, 1:18 pm | ||
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Thread: SRS for Programming Languages? Post: SRS for Programming Languages? I have thought about using SRS to improve my understanding of a programming language that I am already familiar with. What separates an intermediate programmer from a great one? Probably the amoun... |
scuda | Off topic | 17 | 4,821 | 2009-06-23, 10:22 am | ||
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Thread: New/altered strategy for learning Kanji? Post: New/altered strategy for learning Kanji? Jarvik7 Wrote:scuda Wrote:Milosd, I am also going to Japan in September, and I live in Campbell River, Vancouver Island ;) I pity you, my parents live in that area (Courtenay). Nice, actually I'm from... |
scuda | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 2,933 | 2009-06-23, 6:27 am | ||
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Thread: Trips to japan Post: Trips to japan IMO, you should be able to do it on $1500 total. Maybe you'd rather spend a bit more, but I'm a big believer in setting a limit before hand and trying to stay within that. Save your Savings! Th... |
scuda | General discussion | 24 | 2,239 | 2009-06-23, 6:25 am | ||
