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    Thread: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year.
Post: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year.

I'm gonna interrupt the age old SRS debate here and just give my thanks for this thread. Although everything said in the OP's post was completely obvious after reading it (I mean...when you stop to th...
darkauras General discussion 249 67,232 2013-06-21, 2:51 am
    Thread: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition
Post: Rikaichan: RevTK Community Edition

I keep getting this error whenever I try to import a word. I've made sure my note type matches up the fields in Rikai, so I have absolutely no idea what this is about. Quote:An error occurred in an a...
darkauras Learning resources 859 244,130 2013-03-18, 4:03 pm
    Thread: Has anyone NOT used RTK?
Post: Has anyone NOT used RTK?

I recently finished rtk and I can tell you this. The best thing RTK did for me was making me comfortable with kanji. When I started RTK I was a complete beginner and whenever I saw kanji I would panic...
darkauras The Japanese language 107 23,178 2011-07-27, 6:26 pm
    Thread: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books
Post: a totally innocent thread about 日本語 books

I would find myself very grateful for this thread if it existed, which we all know it doesn't.
darkauras Learning resources 277 117,280 2011-07-20, 2:06 pm
    Thread: Completing Kanji Gold - just under 6000 kanji
Post: Completing Kanji Gold - just under 6000 kanji

zigmonty Wrote:Only a few people were bothered by the paid link thingy (although that does have a spammy feeling). I was picking on him purely because his first post on this forum was about how awesom...
darkauras General discussion 72 15,452 2011-07-13, 4:03 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Finally finished! YEEESSS! It took me a week longer than I had hoped because I started getting 250+ reviews a day and I just couldn't motivate myself to a do a lesson on top of that (though I finally ...
darkauras Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,651 2011-07-11, 3:48 pm
    Thread: Interpreting
Post: Interpreting

Good luck! I just finished my own interpreting program, but for American Sign Language which makes it just a bit different. It's hard but very rewarding and anything but boring. I guess my biggest pi...
darkauras Learning resources 5 977 2011-06-24, 4:02 pm
    Thread: Free Reading Material for Beginners (Graded Reader Equivalent)
Post: Free Reading Material for Beginners (Graded Reader...

This is awesome! Thank you!
darkauras Learning resources 4 115,249 2011-06-23, 7:02 pm
    Thread: The Discouragement Thread
Post: The Discouragement Thread

I can't say that I've ever been discouraged, but neither have I been encouraged because no one knows I'm studying Japanese, not even my parents know, lol. I'm sure I'd get comments about being a geek ...
darkauras Off topic 311 69,119 2011-06-23, 6:16 pm
    Thread: Why being tall sucks.... (rambling)
Post: Why being tall sucks.... (rambling)

SimHuman Wrote:I'm 5'1" / 155 cm and long done growing. I stand on my toes at a lot of sales counters and I can't buy pants off the rack without going to the kid's section, but I don't suffer one bit ...
darkauras Off topic 41 12,121 2011-06-22, 7:11 pm
    Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!
Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!

3/4 finished! My plan is to finish the rest in the next six days with 30 days in total my goal. I'm starting to get bored and if I don't finish it soon I never will, an if I take a break I'll never co...
darkauras Remembering the Kanji 462 138,195 2011-06-22, 6:45 pm
    Thread: Am I the only one who thinks japanese has a brutal ammount of vocab.?
Post: Am I the only one who thinks japanese has a brutal...

I think the problem with trying to compare the amount of words a language has, especially in English, is when words are borrowed from other languages. Look at the word "tsunami" Japanese in origin, bu...
darkauras The Japanese language 104 20,367 2011-06-17, 5:06 pm
    Thread: I'll pay if you'll make a anki deck for me (Budget 50~100 dollars)
Post: I'll pay if you'll make a anki deck for me (Budget...

I think you could get away with it as long as someone owned the source material because technically you're only charging for labor. You couldn't sell the deck to someone who didn't own the book/movie ...
darkauras General discussion 28 4,395 2011-06-15, 7:17 pm
    Thread: Half way!
Post: Half way!

Woo, I can finally post here! After taking a 2 1/2 month break due to school related madness, I started over from start two weeks ago and here I am. I reached 1044 last night and it feels great.
darkauras Remembering the Kanji 616 180,465 2011-06-15, 1:17 pm
    Thread: Theoretical Method for Learning to Draw
Post: Theoretical Method for Learning to Draw

bowserevilking Wrote:Not even some comfy shoes? EDIT: Isn't "no shortcuts" what they said before RTK and AJATT? "Don't bother with your petty 'mnemonics', child! Write each kanji out 10,000 times a...
darkauras Off topic 29 6,794 2011-04-13, 1:17 am
    Thread: What kind of headphones do you use?
Post: What kind of headphones do you use?

Skullcandy, when I can get them cheap since I go through headphones like crazy, they're really comfortable. Otherwise, I use a pair of sony around-the-ears at home and some iphone headphones I grabbed...
darkauras General discussion 51 15,748 2011-04-12, 5:54 pm
    Thread: Theoretical Method for Learning to Draw
Post: Theoretical Method for Learning to Draw

I don't think it would work as well as you think. Sure, you can learn to draw from manga, that's how I originally learned, but it won't take you very far. You'll get stuck in a rut of only being able...
darkauras Off topic 29 6,794 2011-04-10, 1:20 am
    Thread: Getting a Japanese girlfriend?
Post: Getting a Japanese girlfriend?

This is entire thread has been quite amusing...and should I say...enlightening?
darkauras General discussion 94 23,737 2011-04-10, 12:56 am
    Thread: what's your favorite audio media player?
Post: what's your favorite audio media player?

Hah, that's my reaction to itunes. It causes me more grief than practically any other program I use. Realplayer causes no grief...everything is happy. Though at this moment, I'm using winamp to play a...
darkauras Off topic 8 1,028 2011-04-06, 1:43 am
    Thread: what's your favorite audio media player?
Post: what's your favorite audio media player?

I like realplayer. It let's you convert music to any format, as well as download streaming videos off the internet. Also, it has a self contained library, meaning I don't have to go searching through ...
darkauras Off topic 8 1,028 2011-04-06, 1:28 am
    Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn...
Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea...

erlog Wrote:darkauras Wrote:How about taking a look at another language? This language requires learners to memorize over twenty abstracts squiggly shapes. Not too many, cool, but there's a catch. Ea...
darkauras Off topic 186 32,837 2011-04-04, 9:49 pm
    Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn...
Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea...

How about taking a look at another language? This language requires learners to memorize over twenty abstracts squiggly shapes. Not too many, cool, but there's a catch. Each of those squiggles stands...
darkauras Off topic 186 32,837 2011-04-04, 12:07 am
    Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn...
Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea...

IceCream Wrote:pudding cat Wrote:Moving to something slightly related to the original topic, has anyone ever looked at Japanese sign language? I did some BSL and in the alphabet I could kind of see h...
darkauras Off topic 186 32,837 2011-04-02, 8:12 pm
    Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn...
Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea...

nest0r Wrote:At any rate, I'm not convinced of the utility of SignWriting or anything, I'm just speculating on why it was created and why people use it. It was developed for a few reasons. One is that...
darkauras Off topic 186 32,837 2011-04-01, 8:05 pm
    Thread: 52-Hertz song of world’s loneliest whale
Post: 52-Hertz song of world’s loneliest whale

I really want to feel bad for 52-hertz...really I do. But you know, him trolling the seas like that just isn't cool.
darkauras Off topic 6 4,399 2011-04-01, 2:26 am
    Thread: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to learn...
Post: Next time someone tells you Kanji is stupid to lea...

I've heard lot's of people say that learning kanji is a waste of time, or that the Japanese should switch over to only using hiragana. Ignoring how horribly ethnocentric that is, I thought it would be...
darkauras Off topic 186 32,837 2011-04-01, 2:24 am
    Thread: I study Nihongo because...
Post: I study Nihongo because...

I've always been interested in Far Eastern cultures, and I say it like that, because when I was like six, I was interested and at the time Japan and China were pretty much the same thing to me. It was...
darkauras Off topic 358 111,131 2011-04-01, 2:15 am
    Thread: tablet-friendly viral videos?
Post: tablet-friendly viral videos?

That was...creepy... As for touchscreen advertising, well...technically that's everything if you have a computer with a touch screen (like my laptop has). You're just replacing the mouse with you fin...
darkauras Off topic 2 586 2011-03-30, 11:47 pm
    Thread: Scientists find clutter affects ability to focus, process information
Post: Scientists find clutter affects ability to focus, ...

Interesting. To be honest, I don't really buy into this. I love clutter, organized chaos is my room in a nutshell. Yet I have no problems focusing at all. If I'm getting distracted by stuff around me,...
darkauras Off topic 8 2,630 2011-03-29, 7:00 pm
    Thread: Started RTK1, should I be doing grammar at the same time?
Post: Started RTK1, should I be doing grammar at the sam...

Thank you! From the sounds of it, I think I'm going to just focus on RTK1. I feel like if I make it a goal, to finish the book before I let myself doing anything else, I'll be more inclined to actuall...
darkauras Remembering the Kanji 9 5,198 2011-03-28, 3:28 am