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    Thread: What is your most failed kanji?
Post: What is your most failed kanji?

Any way to check this on Anki?
haplochant Remembering the Kanji 24 9,119 2013-03-27, 5:04 pm
    Thread: Youtube video practicing my japanese - please check!
Post: Youtube video practicing my japanese - please chec...

Pretty impressive for five months of study, I think. Has all of it been self-study? Sounds way better than the horrible Japanese movie I made my first semester of college! Like others have said, the m...
haplochant General discussion 18 3,453 2013-03-20, 10:10 am
    Thread: Learning kanji while high
Post: Learning kanji while high

When I was doing RTK, I found it to affect my initial acquisition of the kanji when learning new ones (if I learned a story while in an altered state, I had a lot of trouble remembering the next day w...
haplochant Off topic 34 9,015 2013-03-11, 8:19 pm
    Thread: I look like crap
Post: I look like crap

It's awesome that you want to start looking good. It's amazing how much better you can feel when you learn how to dress yourself! s0apgun Wrote:Buy clothes that fit. Invest in some nice jeans and sev...
haplochant Off topic 19 4,091 2013-03-09, 2:06 am
    Thread: Good sites for searching hotels and hostels in Japan?
Post: Good sites for searching hotels and hostels in Jap...

It's not a typical hotel experience, but have you tried using airbnb.com? It lets you book apartments, roomshares, and houses by the night. I use it domestically all the time, but I've been looking fo...
haplochant General discussion 8 1,280 2013-03-05, 10:50 pm
    Thread: Can't change nukemarine Core optimized deck to recognition ?
Post: Can't change nukemarine Core optimized deck to rec...

I've been having the same problem. Mind sharing your solution?
haplochant Learning resources 3 1,082 2013-02-24, 1:29 am
    Thread: A question for those who live/have lived in Japan...
Post: A question for those who live/have lived in Japan....

Kind of depends on the lifestyle you are used to, but I lived very comfortably in Japan on ¥250000-300000/month, and I suspect I am very much on the spendy side compared to many on this forum. My apar...
haplochant General discussion 24 6,756 2013-02-20, 1:01 pm
    Thread: Cheap Japanese books
Post: Cheap Japanese books

I love honto.jp. Really difficult to find cheaper prices or shipping! I order magazines and sometimes books from them about once monthly. Shipping SAL it usually takes about a month to arrive, but I'v...
haplochant Learning resources 8 1,886 2013-02-13, 12:22 am
    Thread: Thinking about no longer using RTK by Heisig.
Post: Thinking about no longer using RTK by Heisig.

Heisig's method does seem silly at first, but as I'm sure many other members of this community can attest, there is pretty good reasoning and solid research behind it. The reason the stories are so ou...
haplochant Remembering the Kanji 110 21,141 2013-01-25, 3:19 pm
    Thread: Japanese Movies -- Community Reviews.
Post: Japanese Movies -- Community Reviews.

Kamikaze Girls (Shimotsuma monogatari) A comedic odd-couple story about a misanthropic, 18th Century Rococo-obsessed, "Lolita" and an unsophisticated "yanki" girl. Momoko, obsessed with frilly dress...
haplochant Learning resources 54 12,204 2013-01-25, 12:58 pm
    Thread: Goals for 2013?
Post: Goals for 2013?

I hate making idle resolutions, so I've tried to whittle this down to things that I will really work for this year. -Finish Tae Kim by the end of Jan (should be easy) -Core6K OR 3000-4000 sentences i...
haplochant Off topic 54 10,190 2013-01-02, 5:39 pm
    Thread: 2-3 month accommodation options in Japanese cities?
Post: 2-3 month accommodation options in Japanese cities...

I'd suggest looking at airbnb.com to see what you can find. It's a website where individuals can list their homes/apartments/roomshares for short-term rental. Many of them have monthly rental fees. Yo...
haplochant General discussion 9 2,579 2012-12-29, 7:51 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

I started to reply to a friend in Japanese today and realized I had no idea if the "for a ______" expression would translate literally, as in "you eat a lot for a 5 year-old" or "you talk a lot for a ...
haplochant The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,623 2012-12-21, 3:22 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaahhhh!!! Wow, it feels so good to close that blue book one last time. I started in April. At the time, I thought I could finish the book off by the end of August! I took almost a month ...
haplochant Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,758 2012-12-17, 10:43 pm
    Thread: Finally got my Mr. T back :D
Post: Finally got my Mr. T back :D

I am really, irrationally attached to the Mr. T stories. I think it's a combination of amusing imagery and knowing that I have extremely good retention history for most kanji using that primitive ("pr...
haplochant Remembering the Kanji 4 1,224 2012-12-11, 12:49 pm
    Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!
Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!

Thanks for the advice, warrigal! It's good to know not everyone has hours to spend on kanji every day and has 90% retention! Maybe I'll slow down until daily reviews drop a bit. On the plus side, SR...
haplochant Remembering the Kanji 462 138,228 2012-10-08, 7:42 pm
    Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!
Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!

Technically cheating a little bit (I'm only at frame 1560), but I need some encouragement! The thread primitive wasn't bad (changed to Spiderman), but primitives like sieve and staples are really diff...
haplochant Remembering the Kanji 462 138,228 2012-10-08, 3:46 pm
    Thread: Half way!
Post: Half way!

WHOOHOO! Halfway there. I started in April, but got very slack during the first half of the summer and took a long break. I've been back in the groove for the last two months. I do anywhere from 10-50...
haplochant Remembering the Kanji 616 180,497 2012-08-29, 2:17 pm
    Thread: Japanese video blogs by females?
Post: Japanese video blogs by females?

Ah, I like Campus Girls! Yeah, definitely not so easy. I put a few hours into searching around before posting but didn't come up with much that was high-quality and interesting. And, you know, about...
haplochant Learning resources 14 2,464 2012-06-29, 2:22 pm
    Thread: Japanese video blogs by females?
Post: Japanese video blogs by females?

AH! Cotorich is so weird... Looks like a great person to AVOID emulating! Thanks for the suggestions so far!
haplochant Learning resources 14 2,464 2012-06-29, 9:13 am
    Thread: Japanese video blogs by females?
Post: Japanese video blogs by females?

Hi everyone! I'm hoping some of you can help me out. I'm looking for video blogs on YouTube or other sites that primarily feature female Japanese speakers. I've found plenty with male hosts which are ...
haplochant Learning resources 14 2,464 2012-06-28, 3:38 pm