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    Thread: Best flashcard - Anki, Twinkle, Mnemosyne, etc
Post: Best flashcard - Anki, Twinkle, Mnemosyne, etc

You may want to look at Anki's documentation, since I think you're overlooking existant features. For example, to search for a tag, you would search tag:TagName, obviously replacing 'TagName'. And you...
nucleargorilla Learning resources 12 6,631 2011-07-01, 12:37 pm
    Thread: How do you study with anki+core2k/6k??
Post: How do you study with anki+core2k/6k??

In order to get a first study of the cards, I exported the cards as tab separated text. I wrote a script or two which took the data and made it into appropriate HTML, including the image and the audio...
nucleargorilla Learning resources 6 2,848 2011-06-20, 9:21 pm
    Thread: Learning only written Chinese... any takers?
Post: Learning only written Chinese... any takers?

I thought this looked like fun. I don't know any Chinese, but here's what I've figured out: 金妮, 歐文 - Ginny, Owen (obviously) 你好 - hello (first character is 'you') 妳好 - hello (first character may also...
nucleargorilla Chinese and Hanzi 10 3,629 2011-05-07, 5:11 pm
    Thread: Learning Chinese by watching TV - A blogger's experience
Post: Learning Chinese by watching TV - A blogger's expe...

In a way this appears to be an extension of the notion to divide language learning into some discrete components and then tackle each in turn. He takes this to a certain extreme, choosing to do a vast...
nucleargorilla General discussion 31 10,296 2011-02-10, 5:37 pm
    Thread: Disney in Japanese
Post: Disney in Japanese

Thanks for pointing this out. They seem to be really high quality, too (1080p available for all the few I checked). I'll have to start downloading the ones I like in case someone gets wise to this a...
nucleargorilla Learning resources 15 12,356 2010-08-25, 10:42 am
    Thread: Japanese TV on Internet
Post: Japanese TV on Internet

I was able to register for that site just now. I think they might have a limited number of registrations per day, or something, which start at whatever midnight they're using (I'm just guessing since...
nucleargorilla Learning resources 182 105,146 2010-08-11, 1:14 am
    Thread: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog
Post: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog

Has anyone considered speeding up the audio they're using? Most media players are able to preserve the pitch just fine, so it just means getting a bit more done. At a speed increased 10%, you can ha...
nucleargorilla General discussion 358 75,092 2010-08-10, 3:47 pm
    Thread: Transform Your Mind, Change Your Brain
Post: Transform Your Mind, Change Your Brain

That was pretty neat, thanks for posting it. I actually knew someone who was working on some of that, so I'm glad to know what happened.
nucleargorilla Off topic 2 1,236 2010-04-12, 3:03 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

I finished. It took 67 days, including 23 days without adding any. I started on a whim, but managed to stick it through. Now it's off to the exciting task of dealing with a whole bunch of reviews (...
nucleargorilla Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,748 2009-09-03, 6:08 pm
    Thread: Time Boxing Timer.
Post: Time Boxing Timer.

In Linux, you could also try Code: sleep 5m && aplay sound.wav or similar in a terminal (supplying your own sound file and changing the time as desired). Or changing the second half to whate...
nucleargorilla Learning resources 10 4,135 2009-08-07, 1:00 am