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    Thread: What are effective stories?
Post: What are effective stories?

When I've come across kanji where even the story didn't help, then I brute forced them the by their parts. Ex: FISHING = WATER + FISH ...and it worked. I always made sure to analyze kanji on my own ...
wio_dude Remembering the Kanji 33 6,537 2009-06-27, 8:13 pm
    Thread: ANKI users: What's the furthest due card in your RTK deck?
Post: ANKI users: What's the furthest due card in your R...

If you order the kanji by due date and go the the bottom one, what is it? 1.4 years - 玉 In 1.4 years from now, I wonder where my Japanese level will be, and what it will be like to see that kanji ap...
wio_dude Remembering the Kanji 20 2,986 2009-06-27, 7:59 pm
    Thread: Struggling with the method
Post: Struggling with the method

Don't get me wrong igordesu, I'm not saying that you must hate kanji, nor am I saying that everyone hates kanji. Some people love it and that's great for them. But, if I allowed my hatred of kanji st...
wio_dude Remembering the Kanji 65 10,389 2009-06-27, 7:41 pm
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

igordesu Wrote:I still don't agree that learning words in your native language as meanings for kanji is the best way to go about it. I mean, sure *maybe* it's helpful in the beginning for a while, bu...
wio_dude Remembering the Kanji 410 149,065 2009-06-27, 7:17 pm
    Thread: Struggling with the method
Post: Struggling with the method

Ignore the AJATT zealots. There are parts about learning Japanese that suck balls. However all of that pays off if when you can suddenly read things that you couldn't before. Hell, you don't even h...
wio_dude Remembering the Kanji 65 10,389 2009-06-27, 4:17 pm
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

I'm probably gonna get flamed for this, but I'm putting my input into it anyway. There are a lot of people here who have become very anti-English in there method of studying Japanese. While it's tru...
wio_dude Remembering the Kanji 410 149,065 2009-06-27, 3:46 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

I'd say I added the snake around a month ago or so, but I didn't want to say that I had 'completed' anything until I had 2042(?) mature cards in my anki deck. It took me about 7 months since I start...
wio_dude Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,771 2009-06-27, 2:49 pm
    Thread: Let's be friends on iKnow
Post: Let's be friends on iKnow

I'm wio-dude there also. Feel free to add me if you wish.
wio_dude Learning resources 28 4,502 2009-02-01, 12:10 am
    Thread: "The Illogic of U.S. Foreign Language Education"
Post: "The Illogic of U.S. Foreign Language Education"

I agree with "The Illogic of U.S. Foreign Language Education"-- it IS illogical to expect the typical U.S. citizen to learn a foreign language, because they won't use it and it will be forgotten. Wha...
wio_dude Off topic 34 5,387 2009-01-22, 7:02 pm