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    Thread: Drivers license test. How hard is it?
Post: Drivers license test. How hard is it?

Tzadeck Wrote:you can fail for almost anything (i.e., a very common reason for failure is not making left turns quite sharp enough, even though throughout the test you made turns way sharper than anyo...
Wally General discussion 16 6,827 2009-10-28, 9:23 pm
    Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!
Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!

mastermx Wrote:alright 1551! only 491 left to go... please tell me it gets easier. the reviews are starting to get bigger. They get bigger, but the last 1/4 is somehow easier (meaning reviews don't p...
Wally Remembering the Kanji 462 138,195 2009-10-25, 3:23 am
    Thread: default language of thought
Post: default language of thought

blackmacros Wrote:Wow, that's really interesting! I wonder what it is about maths that short-circuits us? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that maths is kind of like a language in and of its...
Wally General discussion 22 2,700 2009-09-09, 2:33 am
    Thread: default language of thought
Post: default language of thought

blackmacros Wrote:I find it interesting how you both mentioned maths/numbers. I learned Indonesian for 5 years and personally found numbers to be *the* hardest thing to handle. It probably doesn't hel...
Wally General discussion 22 2,700 2009-09-09, 2:13 am
    Thread: Problems recognizing kanjis
Post: Problems recognizing kanjis

Koos83 Wrote:In the book, Heisig says that Kanji -> keyword comes with time and practice. I agree on this; of the Kanji I learnt earlier, that I've reviewed more, I can recognise the keyword very e...
Wally Remembering the Kanji 10 1,907 2009-09-04, 4:10 am
    Thread: Historic Election in Japan!
Post: Historic Election in Japan!

LazyNomad Wrote:I have mixed feelings about last elections in Japan. DPJ came to power as a result of the negative reaction of society to market reform attempt made by Koizumi. This attempt stalled ha...
Wally General discussion 9 2,688 2009-09-02, 4:14 am
    Thread: Historic Election in Japan!
Post: Historic Election in Japan!

About the election: "Small earthquake; no tsunami". Seriously, this was mostly a rebuke of the LDP rather than an embrace of the DJP -- an embrace which would be difficult in any case because the DJ...
Wally General discussion 9 2,688 2009-09-02, 4:04 am
    Thread: Best translation?
Post: Best translation?

mezbup Wrote:English and Japanese are two different languages to state the obvious, but something that might not be immediately obvious is that people who grow up speaking english and people who grow ...
Wally General discussion 11 1,315 2009-08-31, 9:37 pm
    Thread: Best translation?
Post: Best translation?

mezbup Wrote:how about "in order to support the family I love I work every day from morning until late at night" Makes perfect sense to me. It does make pretty good sense (although I'd probably cut "...
Wally General discussion 11 1,315 2009-08-31, 8:19 pm
    Thread: Best translation?
Post: Best translation?

The Japanese sentence '愛する家族のために、私は毎日、朝から夜遅くまで働いています' obviously contains a main clause that is pretty straightforward to me: I work everyday from morning until late night. But the subordinate clause...
Wally General discussion 11 1,315 2009-08-31, 7:39 pm
    Thread: Funniest Sentence In KO.
Post: Funniest Sentence In KO.

Wally Wrote:aphasiac Wrote:vosmiura Wrote:How about 地球から月の裏側を見ることはできない。 It is impossble to see the back of the moon from the Earth. Duh. That's actually an interesting and little known fact - the m...
Wally General discussion 148 35,168 2009-08-27, 5:51 pm
    Thread: Funniest Sentence In KO.
Post: Funniest Sentence In KO.

aphasiac Wrote:vosmiura Wrote:How about 地球から月の裏側を見ることはできない。 It is impossble to see the back of the moon from the Earth. Duh. That's actually an interesting and little known fact - the moon rotates ...
Wally General discussion 148 35,168 2009-08-27, 5:49 pm
    Thread: Anybody working on RtK full-time, hoping to finish in 4 or 5 weeks?
Post: Anybody working on RtK full-time, hoping to finish...

zoletype Wrote:nebusoku Wrote:I've also been studying Japanese for many years and have already passed ikkyuu, so I'm familiar with almost all of the kanji even though I couldn't write them to save my ...
Wally Remembering the Kanji 17 3,720 2009-08-17, 2:14 am
    Thread: Deadlocks?
Post: Deadlocks?

Tzadeck Wrote:Wally Wrote:Tzadeck, I been watchin' ya on the members' list. You really move when you move, but then you stop moving for a while. ^_^ But without any question you're done, whether th...
Wally Remembering the Kanji 42 8,060 2009-08-17, 2:08 am
    Thread: Deadlocks?
Post: Deadlocks?

Slow, but steady. No motivational humps at all, just one speed bump last month when we went flew over to Canada to spend some time in Banff National Park in July. (Worth the speed bump, let me tell ...
Wally Remembering the Kanji 42 8,060 2009-08-16, 10:10 pm
    Thread: Memorizing 東京
Post: Memorizing 東京

Umikuma Wrote:What Katsuo said. Addresses are different in Japan. Yes, much more logical to go from the general to the specific, as they do in Japan, than from the specific to the general, as in the U...
Wally General discussion 13 3,634 2009-08-14, 8:49 pm
    Thread: Greasemonkey & Firefox 3.5
Post: Greasemonkey & Firefox 3.5

Has anyone tried this with RTK yet? I really would like to upgrade FF, but I don't want to lose my custom keywords.
Wally General discussion 2 552 2009-08-13, 10:28 pm
    Thread: Love in Japan...
Post: Love in Japan...

chorismos Wrote:I don’t like generalisations but "but ..." I guess you are eager to indulge in making almost countless numbers of them, anti-dis-ir-regardless of your alleged dislike. That post had ...
Wally General discussion 578 67,333 2009-07-15, 7:14 pm
    Thread: How many reviews before completion? (on this site)
Post: How many reviews before completion? (on this site)

1638 cards as of this moment; around 9000 reviews.
Wally Remembering the Kanji 11 1,612 2009-07-09, 6:36 pm
    Thread: Your Japanese Name & 印鑑(seal)
Post: Your Japanese Name & 印鑑(seal)

aaronvanvalen Wrote:@Musashi, why would I not use 論 in my name? Especially since the pronunciation is spot on. No, sorry, it is most definitely *not* spot on. It's in the ballpark, but it's not the s...
Wally General discussion 79 15,253 2009-07-07, 4:57 am
    Thread: Struggling with the method
Post: Struggling with the method

vrtgo Wrote:But suddenly, for some reason, remembering just got difficult. I have discovered (rather belatedly) that running a couple of weeks ahead with story creation (versus flash card addition) se...
Wally Remembering the Kanji 65 10,387 2009-07-02, 3:06 am
    Thread: Hard to know what rings some folk's bell ...
Post: Hard to know what rings some folk's bell ...

bodhisamaya Wrote:His Genius is just playing off the letter オ in a dramatic way. As far as the reports, who knows. Someone may have hit report by accident and others piled on for what ever reason. ...
Wally General discussion 23 2,402 2009-07-01, 1:40 am
    Thread: Suggested Pace
Post: Suggested Pace

Dustin_Calgary Wrote:Is 40 a day too ambitious? I'm one of those CRAZY guys that do way more, 40 is a bad day ^^ What can I say, 40 is certainly attainable given the results many people here have se...
Wally Remembering the Kanji 12 1,989 2009-06-30, 11:46 pm
    Thread: Hard to know what rings some folk's bell ...
Post: Hard to know what rings some folk's bell ...

liosama Wrote:yukamina Wrote:liosama Wrote:Pfft, What about "Crumble" 774, i got 8 reports for that now that i advertise it again (yes i always try advertise it wherever i can :)) It will jump maybe ...
Wally General discussion 23 2,402 2009-06-30, 11:44 pm
    Thread: Suggested Pace
Post: Suggested Pace

alphie Wrote:I've just started RTK after a long time of avoiding it. Its been really fun! I've been in Japan for 10 months and can read/write JLPT3 level but Ive decided to step up my kanji as I'm exp...
Wally Remembering the Kanji 12 1,989 2009-06-30, 9:36 pm
    Thread: pup tent????
Post: pup tent????

Can anyone verify or debunk LazyNomad's bit on this below? === Trivia: The right primitive is kagaribi - 尞 - fuel used for sacrifices. I would use sacred bonfire as a primitive . (Mnemonic: Top is a ...
Wally Remembering the Kanji 11 3,336 2009-06-30, 7:56 pm
    Thread: Hard to know what rings some folk's bell ...
Post: Hard to know what rings some folk's bell ...

Ha ha ha ha! Some clown dinged 'em both again. :) Ding away, dingbats. It helps *ME* absolutely *CEMENT* them into my memory as I check to see if there is any conceivable reason for your dingy din...
Wally General discussion 23 2,402 2009-06-30, 5:23 pm
    Thread: Ritalin
Post: Ritalin

stupiddog Wrote:I take Ritalin as an adult, but not for ADHS, but for narcolepsy because Provigil does not work for me. I found myself awakening more than one time over RTK1, and it was not because of...
Wally Remembering the Kanji 39 6,591 2009-06-30, 4:23 pm
    Thread: Hard to know what rings some folk's bell ...
Post: Hard to know what rings some folk's bell ...

yukamina Wrote:liosama Wrote:Pfft, What about "Crumble" 774, i got 8 reports for that now that i advertise it again (yes i always try advertise it wherever i can :)) It will jump maybe 20 stars and 1...
Wally General discussion 23 2,402 2009-06-30, 4:19 pm
    Thread: Hard to know what rings some folk's bell ...
Post: Hard to know what rings some folk's bell ...

bombpersons Wrote:Wally Wrote:Some bells go off pretty easy. :) Look who's talking =D I think there is a several orders of magnitude difference between objecting to projectX's stories, which were mad...
Wally General discussion 23 2,402 2009-06-30, 4:15 pm