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    Thread: Help with Anki vocab learning
Post: Help with Anki vocab learning

How many new words are you learning at a time? I would guess that learning a ton of new words as well as new kanji (or new readings of kanji) would make things very confusing. I started an Anki vocabu...
Murjab The Japanese language 8 2,380 2010-01-28, 7:39 am
    Thread: When word is hiragana instead of kanji?
Post: When word is hiragana instead of kanji?

samesong Wrote:If you aren't sure, do a Google search and see which yields more results. Google searching is one of my favorite ways to test words/phrases/sentences. If I want to quickly get an idea i...
Murjab General discussion 38 11,675 2009-01-22, 7:29 am
    Thread: Progress report ( AJATT method )
Post: Progress report ( AJATT method )

Thanks for the confidence boost! I recently finished RTK1, and am searching around for useful sentences and grammatical points. I've already found some helpful things, such as using iKnow. I'm working...
Murjab General discussion 31 6,216 2009-01-07, 11:08 am
    Thread: I don't fear the reviews. Do you?
Post: I don't fear the reviews. Do you?

I kinda like reviews... This is something that I'm realizing now... I didn't appreciate reviews enough before. The thing about a review is that by its nature, you're reviewing something you've already...
Murjab Remembering the Kanji 19 2,637 2009-01-06, 9:19 am
    Thread: AJATT sentences: phonetic reading to kanji
Post: AJATT sentences: phonetic reading to kanji

Zarxrax Wrote:That might not work out very well, because Japanese has LOTS of homonyms, so there are potentially lots of different words which all have the same kana reading. I guess maybe if you put ...
Murjab General discussion 13 2,694 2008-12-22, 4:36 pm
    Thread: About.com's Japanese Site
Post: About.com's Japanese Site

From time to time I've found myself on About.com's Japanese site. Perhaps I hadn't seen everything there, however, because today i stumbled across Namiko Abe's Japanese blog lessons. Each blog entry i...
Murjab Learning resources 1 688 2008-12-22, 1:39 pm
    Thread: AJATT sentences: phonetic reading to kanji
Post: AJATT sentences: phonetic reading to kanji

I'm wondering the same thing myself, actually. I have a plan (but this plan was just implemented a little bit ago, so I have no idea if it's a good idea or not). Anyway, perhaps I'll put most of the ...
Murjab General discussion 13 2,694 2008-12-22, 11:59 am
    Thread: Survey: Do you write kanji during your reviews? And what's your goal?
Post: Survey: Do you write kanji during your reviews? A...

liosama Wrote:Whenever 子 is written as a radical in the hen position, the last stroke is shifted up at a severe angle, ALWAYS. Likewise with the drop on white vs drop on candle-stick. They never chang...
Murjab Remembering the Kanji 65 10,893 2008-12-21, 8:45 pm
    Thread: Survey: Do you write kanji during your reviews? And what's your goal?
Post: Survey: Do you write kanji during your reviews? A...

liosama Wrote:I don't get how hard it is to fail a stroke? Why do people mention failing a stroke. Once you know the stroke order it doesn't leave, it is so logical.And even the ones that AREN'T logic...
Murjab Remembering the Kanji 65 10,893 2008-12-21, 6:04 pm
    Thread: UBJG or AAP or...
Post: UBJG or AAP or...

This is a really brilliant post for mining sentences. I'm just starting my path to sentence mining today, and you all have helped me quite a bit! The funny thing is that it's really bewildering. Goin...
Murjab General discussion 22 7,127 2008-12-21, 10:38 am
    Thread: Heisig is rote memorization
Post: Heisig is rote memorization

mattyjaddy Wrote:"Rote learning is a learning technique which avoids understanding of a subject and instead focuses on memorization." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_learning We don't need to und...
Murjab General discussion 42 10,196 2008-12-21, 10:32 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Wow, I added #2042 today... So, I finally get to post in this thread! The funny thing is that there's not really an exact point at which one finishes the book per se. I actually finished going throug...
Murjab Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,660 2008-12-20, 7:19 pm
    Thread: Restarting RtK. I have some questions
Post: Restarting RtK. I have some questions

Well, I think it's a combination of verbal/visual for me... Or maybe it's visual in the same way that reading a story is visual... You kind of see the story unfold in your head, even if you aren't con...
Murjab Remembering the Kanji 4 995 2008-12-15, 12:32 pm
    Thread: Rate and Repetition- Advice
Post: Rate and Repetition- Advice

I also try to learn as many per day as possible. That doesn't mean that I'm making myself fill in 100 per day (but if you can, good for you!). Some days I know that I won't add much. Of course, I've g...
Murjab Remembering the Kanji 3 844 2008-12-12, 8:56 pm
    Thread: So what alternative primitives did you use?
Post: So what alternative primitives did you use?

Some really helpful primitives have been: 人 - Stryder's idea to use Dwight Schrute from 'The Office." That has really helped in many kanji (though perhaps it's kind of an obscure reference for people...
Murjab Remembering the Kanji 67 22,098 2008-12-09, 10:11 am
    Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!
Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!

spoonsman Wrote:Hopefully I can finish the whole thing by New Year's. I'm trying for this goal, too... recently, I've been adding a lot of kanji, and it seems like an attainable goal to get it done th...
Murjab Remembering the Kanji 462 138,197 2008-12-03, 12:17 pm
    Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!
Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!

I just added up to 1535 today (I have to test them at least once to make the number "official," and I usually test the new batch at night). It took me a long time to get here, mainly due to taking off...
Murjab Remembering the Kanji 462 138,197 2008-11-28, 5:43 pm
    Thread: Hidden kanji in RTK1
Post: Hidden kanji in RTK1

Whoa, that's an awesome list. That's gonna help a bunch! Thanks!
Murjab Remembering the Kanji 17 3,928 2008-11-26, 11:30 am
    Thread: Hidden kanji in RTK1
Post: Hidden kanji in RTK1

A lot of people have pointed out these "hidden kanji" in their stories. It's helped me quite a bit since I might otherwise have not realized this. I try to use them in my stories if I can, so that whe...
Murjab Remembering the Kanji 17 3,928 2008-11-26, 9:34 am
    Thread: The Encouragement Thread
Post: The Encouragement Thread

Back in the day, I had made it up to the high 1400s in kanji. This was on my most successful attempt at RTK (all attempts worth mentioning were thanks to this website in the first place, by the way). ...
Murjab Remembering the Kanji 908 186,094 2008-11-26, 9:24 am