Search Results

Post Author Forum Replies Views Posted [asc]
    Thread: New 常用漢字 (jouyou kanji) added recently
Post: New 常用漢字 (jouyou kanji) added recently

Woah, it looks like new kanji are being added to the Jouyou Kanji list! Cf. this article on the Asahi Shinbun : http://www.asahi.com/national/update/011...60297.html . Apparently, this is the first ev...
gruikya The Japanese language 35 13,483 2009-02-10, 4:52 pm
    Thread: Hidden kanji in RTK1
Post: Hidden kanji in RTK1

Maybe I'm not the first to make this discovery, but I didn't find any trace of in on those forums. I've noticed that, when you've finished RTK1, you have learned 2043 kanji, not 2042 ! There's a hidde...
gruikya Remembering the Kanji 17 3,928 2008-10-23, 3:29 pm
    Thread: Any non-native English speakers there?
Post: Any non-native English speakers there?

Sure... Words like beguile, bequeath, awl, abet, dwindle, entice etc. are quite hard to understand for non-native speakers. I sometimes fail a kanji because I do not remember what the english word mea...
gruikya Remembering the Kanji 23 4,375 2008-10-23, 3:14 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Yay! Just hit the sign of the snake (巳) today, after roughly three months and a half, including a 15-day vacation in Japan (where I could barely review, let alone study). So I guess I'm just gonna cel...
gruikya Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,660 2008-10-12, 1:18 pm
    Thread: Sort By Number of Fails?
Post: Sort By Number of Fails?

That's a nice idea ! My most failed kanji are : 851 臓 entrails 4 (I keep mistaking it for intestines) 864 勧 persuade 4 611 憩 recess 3 628 愉 pleasure 3 787 訟 sue 3 823 恥 sham...
gruikya Remembering the Kanji 19 3,695 2008-10-11, 8:29 am
    Thread: A little off topic but...
Post: A little off topic but...

M4A is both lossy, and patent-encumbered. 2 good reasons to prefer FLAC over it. By the way, if you use iTunes, there is a flac plugin for it at http://www.xiph.org .
gruikya Learning resources 8 1,476 2008-10-02, 4:13 pm
    Thread: Frame 61: Stubborn
Post: Frame 61: Stubborn

Many radicals slightly change shapes depending on their position. It is no mistake, and it matters if you wish to be able to write the kanji correctly, but I don't think you need to concern yourself t...
gruikya Remembering the Kanji 1 770 2008-10-02, 4:06 pm
    Thread: Half way!
Post: Half way!

Congrats ! :-) I agree with you: many of the stories made by other users of this site beat, in terms of long-term recall (stickyness?), those stories I made for myself. And it is much faster -- makin...
gruikya Remembering the Kanji 616 180,468 2008-09-21, 1:26 pm
    Thread: Report Clarification - Exhaust and Judgement
Post: Report Clarification - Exhaust and Judgement

Nukemarine Wrote:Something came to mind though. We're so big on copyright issues here, we've never stopped to think about Trademark issues (using comic characters come to mind). Oh well, another can w...
gruikya Remembering the Kanji 12 3,085 2008-09-21, 6:43 am
    Thread: Half way!
Post: Half way!

Lesson 28 completed, 1044 kanji, yeah! Looking at random Japanese articles on Wikipedia, and being able to recognize about half of the kanji in there, sure is a nice motivation. I'm looking forward to...
gruikya Remembering the Kanji 616 180,468 2008-09-09, 3:08 pm