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    Thread: What age are you?
Post: What age are you?

Transtic Wrote:So you just read a word and make up such an image? Too much study, it seems. =P Yeah, like my sex life...pure fantasy! :O
Aikiboy Off topic 357 73,672 2008-03-03, 9:33 pm
    Thread: What age are you?
Post: What age are you?

I would think "older" students would be appropriate. Elderly students gives me images of Homes for the Elderly, everyone huddled together with their walkers and O2 tanks, studying Japanese a la Heisig...
Aikiboy Off topic 357 73,672 2008-03-03, 12:12 am
    Thread: What age are you?
Post: What age are you?

301 in dog years ;) Took 6 months to enter final card from RTK 1 into Anki. Review just before every morning meeting ritual here in Japan so it's completely pain free!
Aikiboy Off topic 357 73,672 2008-03-02, 8:06 pm
    Thread: Who Introduced you to Heisig?
Post: Who Introduced you to Heisig?

I've been in Japan for quite a while now and had pretty much no interest in learning Japanese other than the intial kana and kanji stumblings. My conversation isn't bad though. Someone mentioned aiki...
Aikiboy General discussion 47 13,188 2008-02-25, 9:41 pm
    Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports)
Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports)

vosmiura Wrote:I see the deck statistics have lost some information in this revision, like how many cards are due at each interval. I quite liked those. Can this make a return? I like em too! How ab...
Aikiboy Learning resources 309 61,815 2008-02-25, 8:53 pm
    Thread: Anki on a PDA/Handheld
Post: Anki on a PDA/Handheld

Will do misha, although I was re-reading the info and it may be that only the kanjidic identifiers are scaled back, presenting only heisig/L. And possibly all entries are included in the dictionary w...
Aikiboy Learning resources 172 51,039 2008-01-21, 2:17 am
    Thread: Anki on a PDA/Handheld
Post: Anki on a PDA/Handheld

Misha, I read from the Kangoroo site that the dictionary files have been streamlined for the zaurus, less entries/nfo. Have you found it lacking at all? Should I look into re-integrating the full edic...
Aikiboy Learning resources 172 51,039 2008-01-20, 8:31 pm
    Thread: Anki on a PDA/Handheld
Post: Anki on a PDA/Handheld

misha, many thanks for the kangaroo link in the Essential Resources thread. I just installed it and it's working brilliantly with my touch screen umpc!:) Zaurus owners should definitely check it out.
Aikiboy Learning resources 172 51,039 2008-01-20, 11:22 am
    Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports)
Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports)

Thanks xaarq! What a helpful community. :)
Aikiboy Learning resources 309 61,815 2008-01-16, 7:47 pm
    Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports)
Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports)

Interesting handle, zazen666. I uploaded the deck to the anki wiki. It's under the extra decks and in the attachments area. Didn't know how to put it in the box. :( Hope it works. Cheers. Girardi-Ke...
Aikiboy Learning resources 309 61,815 2008-01-16, 12:06 pm
    Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports)
Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports)

Oh, I was in no way complaining about the speed! The file was unusually large so I'd figured it wouldn't work and am thrilled that it did. :) Afterwards, when I was finding my mistake on display in th...
Aikiboy Learning resources 309 61,815 2008-01-16, 2:16 am
    Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports)
Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports)

It's interesting how everyone grades. I tend to stick mostly with got it, 4, and screwed up, 1. As for lists, I have mine on my phone now(RTK1 txt file and a full data Joyo Kanji excel file), it use...
Aikiboy Learning resources 309 61,815 2008-01-16, 12:23 am
    Thread: Methods for collecting vocabulary
Post: Methods for collecting vocabulary

Weighting one's own vocabulary is an interesting thought. I'm not familiar with TEXTStat, but it sounds interesting. I just wonder how one would decide on which words one reads all the time and which...
Aikiboy Learning resources 7 2,376 2008-01-10, 2:17 am
    Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports)
Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports)

I knew about peraperakun and had thoughts to use it, but also was exploring wakan which does essentially the same thing. On export with Wakan, it offers different formats to save to and I like the abi...
Aikiboy Learning resources 309 61,815 2008-01-08, 8:30 pm
    Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports)
Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports)

Happy New Year to All! A new year, new school term and a new Anki and I've decided to get on with studying and stop thinking about it so much. My still new goal is to add the vocab from Kanji in Con...
Aikiboy Learning resources 309 61,815 2008-01-08, 9:31 am
    Thread: favorite pen for writing kanji?
Post: favorite pen for writing kanji?

Have seen students with this. Really weirdly shaped. Might feel one up if I get the chance. ;)
Aikiboy Remembering the Kanji 21 12,730 2007-12-19, 9:23 pm
    Thread: Banner
Post: Banner

I couldn't help but think of the bus guides around Japan with their little banners leading tourists in the right direction.
Aikiboy Remembering the Kanji 10 2,778 2007-12-17, 9:04 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Way to go! How bout a PBJ? And a tall glass of milk? ;)
Aikiboy Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,599 2007-12-13, 8:57 pm
    Thread: 辻 one or two dots?
Post: 辻 one or two dots?

Funny, I was adjusting settings on my memo in sidebar in Japanese vista and this メイリオ font showed as the default which I'd never heard of. Thanks for the heads up! :)
Aikiboy The Japanese language 8 4,193 2007-12-13, 8:55 pm
    Thread: What do you think of this book?
Post: What do you think of this book?

So this guy is okay as long as he makes a contribution. I reckon that's fair.
Aikiboy Learning resources 14 4,335 2007-12-10, 2:06 am
    Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports)
Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports)

Resolve, that probably makes a lot more sense. Just read and store the words you want. Simple and clean. :)
Aikiboy Learning resources 309 61,815 2007-12-10, 2:04 am
    Thread: What do you think of this book?
Post: What do you think of this book?

I agree and disagree. If the abbreviations chart was taken straight from the edict and all info was gleaned from edict without proper credit given, that's poor form and perhaps illegal. It's all free,...
Aikiboy Learning resources 14 4,335 2007-12-09, 10:44 pm
    Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports)
Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports)

Resolve, I hadn't heard of "incremental reading". I suppose you could just read it, if your japanese is good enough. But I was thinking of a lot of Japanese in one swoop. I guess it would be good to...
Aikiboy Learning resources 309 61,815 2007-12-09, 7:49 pm
    Thread: JLPT1 vocabulary
Post: JLPT1 vocabulary

Hi raseru, save the file as a text file and choose the utf8 encoding.
Aikiboy JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 18 15,039 2007-12-09, 10:32 am
    Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports)
Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports)

dbooster, too bad about the chicken pox, never nice to be sick. the kohjinsha is my new baby, so of course I like it. :) The touchscreen is new tech for me, and I like that too! If there are newer s...
Aikiboy Learning resources 309 61,815 2007-12-09, 10:13 am
    Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports)
Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports)

dbooster, I haven't seen them at Yamada denki, but Best denki here only has the older version. It's hard for me to rate the touchscreen since I haven't played with a modern day pda or tablet. It is ...
Aikiboy Learning resources 309 61,815 2007-12-08, 10:12 am
    Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports)
Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports)

dbooster, that's the page that steered me away from a new electronic dictionary. It's a little pricey, but more than just a dictionary. I was tempted to get it. But because I wasn't sure if Anki would...
Aikiboy Learning resources 309 61,815 2007-12-06, 8:40 pm
    Thread: Your anki deck stats!
Post: Your anki deck stats!

My deck is the Anki-included Heisig+primitives. http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/ee244.../Japanese/
Aikiboy Learning resources 23 7,577 2007-11-29, 8:14 pm
    Thread: University of Hawaii Press reply regarding RTK1 problem
Post: University of Hawaii Press reply regarding RTK1 pr...

Hmmm...so amazon has been getting high quality books and maliciously tampering with the bindings. Damn them. Damn them all to hell! :O
Aikiboy Remembering the Kanji 17 5,415 2007-11-28, 10:10 pm
    Thread: Half way!
Post: Half way!

Glass of Kanji half FULL...Sweet! :)
Aikiboy Remembering the Kanji 616 180,448 2007-11-28, 8:29 pm