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Thread: Ideal passage percentages when reviewing? Post: Ideal passage percentages when reviewing? I'm happy with any nonzero percentage. Each day I know more than the day before. If you get wrapped up with the statistics of progress you'll start to burn yourself out. Just try to have fun with the... |
akrodha | Remembering the Kanji | 25 | 4,968 | 2008-10-20, 10:50 am | ||
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Thread: Best way to get back into the swing? Post: Best way to get back into the swing? I know what you're going through. Although I finished RTK 1 a year ago, my reviews since then have been on-again-off-again. I currently have some 300 expired cards, and another 400 failed cards. My a... |
akrodha | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 2,711 | 2008-06-11, 11:49 pm | ||
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Thread: How hard is it to learn the readings? Post: How hard is it to learn the readings? It's not hard at all, it just takes time and patience. Just read and listen to as much Japanese as you can to learn new words. |
akrodha | Remembering the Kanji | 5 | 2,442 | 2008-05-22, 1:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Anyone reach fluency? Post: Anyone reach fluency? It's not Japanese, but I became fluent in German by living in Germany for five years. Most of the time, I don't need to think about the language to express my ideas and understand others. But there ar... |
akrodha | General discussion | 48 | 7,096 | 2008-05-18, 3:25 am | ||
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Thread: Chapter 23 - Who's idea was this? Post: Chapter 23 - Who's idea was this? Savara Wrote:But the feeling it gives just to finish that chapter, awesome :) Exactly. It seems formidable allright, but after finishing these "hump chapters," you'll feel like a champ. |
akrodha | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 3,358 | 2008-05-17, 8:54 am | ||
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Thread: Help me decide what to do with my Kanji future Post: Help me decide what to do with my Kanji future It took me a year of steady, turtle-style progress to work through RTK I. One month is possible, but could get pretty stressful. |
akrodha | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 2,162 | 2008-05-16, 12:58 am | ||
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Thread: How do you manage failed kanji... Post: How do you manage failed kanji... Don't feel bad about failed kanji. You're asking your brain to remember over 2000 chinese characters. You can't expect to be flawless. If you're having trouble with new stories, don't fret too much. ... |
akrodha | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 2,859 | 2008-05-07, 7:53 am | ||
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Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! I absolutely loved this page: http://kanji.koohii.com/progress.php I'm the kind of guy that refuses to put down a book except at the end of a chapter, so my milestones were the lessons. I felt that ... |
akrodha | Remembering the Kanji | 526 | 167,126 | 2008-04-25, 7:01 am | ||
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Thread: SRS Useage - Reviewing the Kanji + Additional SRS? Post: SRS Useage - Reviewing the Kanji + Additional SRS? The way I see it, one SRS is enough work for me. I couldn't imagine having to manage *two* ;) |
akrodha | Remembering the Kanji | 5 | 1,527 | 2008-04-22, 1:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Number of scheduled reviews Post: Number of scheduled reviews Yeah it's dangerously easy to get enthusiastic and add a whole bunch of new cards, only to be greeted with tall orange stacks. It's kinda like a hangover only three days delayed :) My advice is to to... |
akrodha | General discussion | 17 | 2,460 | 2008-04-22, 12:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Trinity or Anki? Post: Trinity or Anki? I personally prefer Trinity. It treats vocabulary with love and care. Having a failed stack helps to keep troublesome words in focus. Associating vocabulary to sentences or vocab lists or the great Ch... |
akrodha | Learning resources | 7 | 3,266 | 2008-04-21, 3:10 pm | ||
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Thread: What is RtK ???? Post: What is RtK ???? With the link that Kieron provided above: http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publ...sample.pdf the first 276 frames of the book are available for free as a pdf... kinda like try before you buy. |
akrodha | Remembering the Kanji | 43 | 10,516 | 2008-04-12, 2:51 am | ||
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Thread: RTK the second time through Post: RTK the second time through Heh, I'm going through the exact same thing. I had finished RTK 1 about a year ago, and had kept up with my reviews. But exams and thesis rolled around, and I completely neglected everything. A few d... |
akrodha | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 1,832 | 2008-04-10, 12:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Trouble keeping my studying fun... Post: Trouble keeping my studying fun... Yikes! Blue text on green background hurts my eyes! But this is sweeeeeeeet. Thanks for the link! |
akrodha | General discussion | 26 | 8,115 | 2007-07-30, 5:49 am | ||
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Thread: I'm a sad panda! Post: I'm a sad panda! REALLY!? Yikes! That's horrible! It'll be out on DVD before then! |
akrodha | Off topic | 3 | 2,538 | 2007-07-27, 12:10 pm | ||
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Thread: Summer kanji craziness! Post: Summer kanji craziness! Here's rooting for you! |
akrodha | General discussion | 4 | 1,495 | 2007-07-27, 10:58 am | ||
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Thread: Yahoo!辞書 and Quicksilver Post: Yahoo!辞書 and Quicksilver It gets better. Once you've got that working, say you find a word on a webpage you'd like to look up. Instead of selecting it, copying it, opening quicksilver, calling your bookmark, and pasting your ... |
akrodha | Learning resources | 1 | 1,149 | 2007-07-27, 3:08 am | ||
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Thread: Yahoo!辞書 and Quicksilver Post: Yahoo!辞書 and Quicksilver kurojohn asked me how to use Quicksilver to look up words with Yahoo!辞書. Here's how I do it. Step 1: Install the Safari or Camino module. This will allow Quicksilver to include your bookmarks in your... |
akrodha | Learning resources | 1 | 1,149 | 2007-07-27, 2:54 am | ||
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Thread: Anki? Post: Anki? I wanted to complain about Beta 3 not importing my old v0.2.8 .fc files correctly, but Beta 4 seems to have corrected this. It's coming along really well! |
akrodha | Learning resources | 999 | 230,437 | 2007-07-25, 12:29 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Ooo I didn't know about that... looks really interesting! I checked out their site but they didn't have a lot of information. I guess first you have to get in touch with one of the participating unive... |
akrodha | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,597 | 2007-07-24, 7:31 am | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method I do about 10, maybe 20 sentences per day. I figure that Khatz's 50 is way too much for me at this point. For me this is a hobby, not a life goal. It's also worth mentioning that those ten sentences ... |
akrodha | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,120 | 2007-07-24, 2:25 am | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method The Sanseido dictionary is pretty good, but I like Yahoo!辞書 cause it uses URL arguments to look up words. This allows me to look up words with Quicksilver. |
akrodha | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,120 | 2007-07-23, 10:30 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Oh wow awesome! Congrats on going to Cornell! I had considered doing a PhD in Japan, but I think I'll stay in Europe for a while longer. I really like it here. Another thing is that I'm doing biophys... |
akrodha | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,597 | 2007-07-23, 10:19 am | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method Well, for now I don't bother with most compounds that appear within dictionary definitions. What I'll do is look up and include their readings in a definition. Usually I can guess the meaning quite we... |
akrodha | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,120 | 2007-07-23, 10:04 am | ||
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Thread: Anki? Post: Anki? I'm guessing there's no mac beta out yet... |
akrodha | Learning resources | 999 | 230,437 | 2007-07-22, 12:49 pm | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method aircawn Wrote:Seeing that I'm only just starting out, I'm not sure I could understand the meaning of each sentence without an English translation. But if you can do without that, then all power to you... |
akrodha | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,120 | 2007-07-22, 10:08 am | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method Well, in my case I had already learned many basic grammar points from this one book Teach Yourself Japanese, and now I'm working on completing Tae Kim's site. I already started to use Anki to test vo... |
akrodha | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,120 | 2007-07-22, 10:03 am | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method I saw someone had mentioned the All Japanese All the Time website in these forums. (I think it may have been snozle?) Either way I read about the 10,000 sentences method, and so far I've been giving i... |
akrodha | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,120 | 2007-07-22, 8:05 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Hey radical_tyro, congrats! I know what you mean, I'm currently trying to wrap up my Master's in Physics myself, and I know what it means to try juggling RTK and a physics degree. By the way, where a... |
akrodha | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,597 | 2007-07-22, 7:26 am | ||
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Thread: Do you give yourself a time limit? Post: Do you give yourself a time limit? Nah. Most important is that you can visualize the elements, remember the story, and link them all to the keyword. Later on when you learn vocabulary, you'll automatically get quicker anyway. |
akrodha | Remembering the Kanji | 10 | 2,566 | 2007-07-22, 7:24 am | ||
