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    Thread: Any way to shove cards to the BACK of an Anki deck(no review until I reach the end)?
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(2016-02-02, 1:25 pm)my Stansfield123 Wrote: (2016-02-02, 11:06 am)john555 Wrote: LOL!  This forum should be called "post anything at all and watch people come running and take a fit and disagree ...
john555 Learning resources 15 1,345 2016-02-02, 1:29 pm
    Thread: Any way to shove cards to the BACK of an Anki deck(no review until I reach the end)?
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(2016-02-02, 10:59 am)RandomQuotes Wrote: (2016-02-02, 10:15 am)john555 Wrote: Exactly! Anki needs a large, red button you can click on to switch off the annoying SRS feature and make it a generi...
john555 Learning resources 15 1,345 2016-02-02, 11:06 am
    Thread: Any way to shove cards to the BACK of an Anki deck(no review until I reach the end)?
Post: RE: Any way to shove cards to the BACK of an Anki ...

(2016-02-02, 8:38 am)Snesgamer Wrote: (2016-02-02, 8:02 am)RandomQuotes Wrote: (2016-02-02, 7:11 am)Snesgamer Wrote: Yes, I know it goes against the "spirit" of Anki to not do frequent reviews o...
john555 Learning resources 15 1,345 2016-02-02, 10:15 am
    Thread: Any way to shove cards to the BACK of an Anki deck(no review until I reach the end)?
Post: RE: Any way to shove cards to the BACK of an Anki ...

(2016-02-02, 7:11 am)Snesgamer Wrote: Yes, I know it goes against the "spirit" of Anki to not do frequent reviews of cards/words you've already seen. But I kind of want to go through an entire deck ...
john555 Learning resources 15 1,345 2016-02-02, 7:28 am
    Thread: What are the little details that make a grammar useful/nice?
Post: RE: What are the little details that make a gramma...

(2016-01-31, 8:09 pm)vix86 Wrote: (2016-01-31, 2:30 pm)john555 Wrote: Nonsense.  Even advanced Japanese grammars have romaji, like this one recently published by Routledge: http://www.amazon.com/...
john555 General discussion 22 1,669 2016-01-31, 9:15 pm
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john555 Learning resources 4 1,270 2016-01-31, 2:42 pm
    Thread: What are the little details that make a grammar useful/nice?
Post: RE: What are the little details that make a gramma...

(2016-01-31, 6:18 am)vix86 Wrote: An intermediate Japanese grammar book should not have romaji in it. Shesh. Nonsense.  Even advanced Japanese grammars have romaji, like this one recently published...
john555 General discussion 22 1,669 2016-01-31, 2:30 pm
    Thread: What are the little details that make a grammar useful/nice?
Post: RE: What are the little details that make a gramma...

Here's what I like in any type of Japanese language grammar: 1.  The example sentences use common words that the reader will likely be familiar with.  (E.g., in giving an example of the use of the pr...
john555 General discussion 22 1,669 2016-01-30, 2:11 pm
    Thread: I've failed...and I've been lying to myself
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john555 The Japanese language 60 6,947 2016-01-25, 1:46 pm
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john555 The Japanese language 60 6,947 2016-01-25, 11:53 am
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john555 The Japanese language 7 1,356 2016-01-24, 5:09 pm
    Thread: 'no' particle, noob questions
Post: RE: 'no' particle, noob questions

(2016-01-24, 6:25 am)anotherjohn Wrote: Apropos of nothing I'll just leave this here :angel: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/...age_57.htm Here's john555's way of putting it: "Whose" is th...
john555 The Japanese language 9 984 2016-01-24, 6:59 am
    Thread: I've failed...and I've been lying to myself
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john555 The Japanese language 60 6,947 2016-01-23, 9:39 pm
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Here's a fascinating study someone should do: If you post something on a "forum", what percentage of responses will be negative bile?  I don't know...maybe posting a negative response makes people fe...
john555 The Japanese language 10 1,242 2016-01-23, 6:19 am
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john555 The Japanese language 10 1,242 2016-01-22, 11:12 am
    Thread: RTK forgetting mature cards
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What's a "mature card"?
john555 Remembering the Kanji 16 1,658 2016-01-20, 7:04 am
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john555 Learning resources 4 1,270 2016-01-19, 9:37 pm
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john555 Learning resources 4 1,270 2016-01-19, 8:03 am
    Thread: Way to order reviews by Heisig frame number?
Post: RE: Way to order reviews by Heisig frame number?

I know what you mean.  I found that it was very helpful from time to time to do a review of all the kanji in Heisig order because that helps reinforce the learning/remembering of the keywords. In fac...
john555 Remembering the Kanji 7 971 2016-01-14, 8:47 am
    Thread: Help with buying a watch for a Japanese lady
Post: RE: Help with buying a watch for a Japanese lady

The problem with buying gifts like watches (or books) is that people have very particular tastes and preferences and no matter what you buy the person may not like it. (It took me forever to by a new...
john555 Off topic 5 1,065 2016-01-11, 7:27 am
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
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My milestone achievement:  today I finished the last reading in the reader I've been working on for months:  An Introduction to Written Japanese by O'Neill and Yanada. This book was intended to be us...
john555 General discussion 1,389 294,117 2016-01-09, 11:24 pm
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Post: RE: grammar question about "no"

Actually silly me--I forgot what I had previously studied in the book I first used to learn Japanese ("Teach Yourself Japanese").  I went and looked it up.  It says (Lesson 13, p. 64): Instead of Wat...
john555 The Japanese language 9 950 2016-01-02, 6:32 am
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john555 The Japanese language 9 950 2016-01-01, 11:19 am
    Thread: Just started learning Japanese. How should I proceed?
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My own advice (based on my own experience) is that when starting out with Japanese you should learn as much of the grammar as you can phonetically first. What I found was that trying to start right i...
john555 General discussion 10 1,617 2015-12-31, 7:22 am
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Post: RE: I got this for Christmas yay!!

Nayr's Core5000 deck does not appear to be in Anki anymore (assuming it was in fact there at one time). If I recall correctly someone some time ago announced an Anki deck for this dictionary but they...
john555 Learning resources 5 1,201 2015-12-27, 1:49 pm
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john555 The Japanese language 12 1,550 2015-12-26, 5:32 pm
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john555 Learning resources 5 1,201 2015-12-26, 1:25 pm
    Thread: RTK2 Paper Flashcards.
Post: RE: RTK2 Paper Flashcards.

(2015-12-23, 11:20 pm)AussieTrooper Wrote: When doing RTK1 I found that using printed out paper flashcards very useful, so that each of the groups could be done together until I was comfortable with...
john555 General discussion 2 609 2015-12-24, 11:17 am
    Thread: Is there anything like this on youtube for Japanese pop songs?
Post: RE: Is there anything like this on youtube for Jap...

(2015-12-23, 2:11 pm)chamcham Wrote: Try this: https://www.youtube.com/user/KaraokeJPOP Thanks!  xox...
john555 Learning resources 3 783 2015-12-23, 2:19 pm
    Thread: Is there anything like this on youtube for Japanese pop songs?
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I was watching this just now, and I thought it would be useful to have something like this in Japanese... If there is can someone post some links please?  Thanks in advance. https://www.youtube.com/...
john555 Learning resources 3 783 2015-12-23, 2:00 pm