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    Thread: AJATT : The dark side
Post: AJATT : The dark side

I use AJATT because I don't want to pay for classes and don't have unlimited time. That being said, I teach English as a language, and not in a crap way. So I actually meet many people daily who hav...
phauna General discussion 55 12,426 2009-12-13, 12:19 am
    Thread: sushi often not what you think
Post: sushi often not what you think

I think the distinction is that dolphins are carnivorous, therefore they are not an easily sustainable type of meat. People usually only farm herbivorous (or omnivorous) animals because they require ...
phauna Off topic 33 4,548 2009-11-20, 4:42 pm
    Thread: On why it's important to make your own stories
Post: On why it's important to make your own stories

I disagree. It's faster not to make up the stories, collective intelligence is greater than my own individual intelligence, and I've already seen after finishing that my recall is the same as others ...
phauna Remembering the Kanji 24 4,576 2009-09-19, 5:58 pm
    Thread: Why do you still visit the RevTK forum?
Post: Why do you still visit the RevTK forum?

Coming here makes me feel like I'm studying.
phauna Off topic 41 6,553 2009-09-14, 7:44 am
    Thread: Why does Japanese TV use so much subtitles?
Post: Why does Japanese TV use so much subtitles?

In Australia we have closed captions for people with hearing difficulties. And the captions are uniform fonts and colours, not crazy ones. I don't want or need captions, I can hear everything fine, ...
phauna General discussion 45 19,556 2009-09-12, 2:40 am
    Thread: What was this method called?
Post: What was this method called?

Alter your mature card multiplier to 0.1 so you don't have to totally fail mature cards. It will save a lot of reviews, just review the old deck.
phauna General discussion 7 1,444 2009-09-08, 6:12 am
    Thread: Speaking Japanese in Japan
Post: Speaking Japanese in Japan

Non-natives will never be native perfect. It will never happen. You have to become a native to do it ie live in that country in your formative years and then continue to do so for many more. Even n...
phauna General discussion 56 9,995 2009-09-05, 6:31 pm
    Thread: Our Noticeable Improvements!
Post: Our Noticeable Improvements!

There is always Tetsuya's. I'm pretty sure they have passable sushi.
phauna General discussion 19 2,753 2009-09-01, 6:18 am
    Thread: The Koohii Wiki (post updates & requests here)
Post: The Koohii Wiki (post updates & requests here)

Done some.
phauna Learning resources 97 52,029 2009-09-01, 5:29 am
    Thread: Output FTL
Post: Output FTL

I haven't been around lately, studying, and Tobberoth seems to have taken over my peeves anyway. Anyway, I teach English for a living. Most students we get from Asia who come to Australia to learn E...
phauna General discussion 75 9,048 2009-08-25, 5:55 am
    Thread: uchi or ie?
Post: uchi or ie?

A Japanese person once told me that if it's in kanji then it's ie, and if it's uchi in hiragana then it's uchi. That is, the kanji is always ie.
phauna The Japanese language 7 7,621 2009-08-10, 2:08 am
    Thread: Games that are good for building vocabulary
Post: Games that are good for building vocabulary

I bought a DS thinking it was going to help, but generally any real Japanese game has kanji written so small and in such a poor DS resolution that you can only read them if you are an expert already. ...
phauna Learning resources 54 19,342 2009-08-09, 5:23 am
    Thread: Test your English vocabulary (while fighting world hunger)
Post: Test your English vocabulary (while fighting world...

I'm only posting because I got to level 50.
phauna Off topic 19 2,965 2009-08-09, 2:17 am
    Thread: KO2001 in a month.
Post: KO2001 in a month.

mafried Wrote:Hinode, blackmacros: I've found that the recognition-only approach simply doesn't lead to good output over time An easy and 'safer' way to output is to do recognition only, but occasiona...
phauna General discussion 36 6,783 2009-08-08, 4:56 pm
    Thread: Pre-mined sentences in word order for AJATT folks (and others)
Post: Pre-mined sentences in word order for AJATT folks ...

Over-kanjifying is definitely a bad thing to do. I don't think I've ever read konnichiwa in kanji, it's usually kana only. If you want some literal word order sentences, Assimil Japanese With Ease c...
phauna The Japanese language 18 6,179 2009-08-03, 4:56 pm
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

By mindful I mean, if you are listening to Japanese while doing some computer programming, or maths problems, or something difficult, like Khatzu seems to do then that won't help at all. You can list...
phauna General discussion 1,517 595,029 2009-08-01, 5:12 pm
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

ghinzdra Wrote:Anyway I m always extremely interested in critics and very open minded . So I m all ears. Well in that case, no amount of input will allow you to easily and faultlessly output. Listeni...
phauna General discussion 1,517 595,029 2009-08-01, 8:19 am
    Thread: Learning music
Post: Learning music

Here is a flashcard note trainer, not an srs, but brute force should be okay for the limited number of notes that you will learn. http://www.8notes.com/school/theory/musi...82_en.html Here's an inte...
phauna Off topic 17 1,803 2009-06-20, 4:36 am
    Thread: Mr. T vs Chuck Norris - who do you use?
Post: Mr. T vs Chuck Norris - who do you use?

No one uses Mr. T or Chuck Norris, they use you!
phauna Remembering the Kanji 30 5,920 2009-05-27, 2:38 am
    Thread: AJATTsentences forum : launch of a new forum KO2001 and others
Post: AJATTsentences forum : launch of a new forum KO200...

Yes, he said he wouldn't disappear, and then he disappeared. It was annoying because I spent a great deal of time copying links into it. He said he couldn't pay for the hosting. I offered to pay fo...
phauna Learning resources 59 25,606 2009-05-11, 2:35 am
    Thread: Christian influence in Remember the Kanji?
Post: Christian influence in Remember the Kanji?

You implied my list was too British for you, an American, although half of my list was American things. If something deriving from another country is a problem for you, then I pointed out the bible i...
phauna Off topic 143 19,763 2009-05-05, 7:42 pm
    Thread: Christian influence in Remember the Kanji?
Post: Christian influence in Remember the Kanji?

timaki Wrote:phauna Wrote:Robin Hood, King Arthur, ninjas, dragons, unicorns, pirates, Alice in Wonderland, nursery rhymes, batman, spiderman, superman, Santa, Easter bunny, Tooth fairy, the Beatles, ...
phauna Off topic 143 19,763 2009-05-05, 5:48 pm
    Thread: Christian influence in Remember the Kanji?
Post: Christian influence in Remember the Kanji?

Heisig just knows a lot of Bible stories, more than the average person. I do think his stories would be much better if they were based more on popular culture than on Bible stories. Robin Hood, King...
phauna Off topic 143 19,763 2009-05-05, 6:36 am
    Thread: Slight hurdle.. myself.
Post: Slight hurdle.. myself.

Just don't do a lot of sentences at first. Perhaps add five sentences a day. See if that is too boring. It should take about ten minutes to add them, perhaps five minutes to review them. Five sent...
phauna General discussion 13 1,764 2009-05-03, 11:10 pm
    Thread: LanguageBob Firefox addon for Japanese
Post: LanguageBob Firefox addon for Japanese

Well of course it works much better with more closely related languages such as French. I've been using it for French and it is a lot more correct. The structure of Japanese is really not in its fav...
phauna Learning resources 14 2,145 2009-04-22, 1:41 am
    Thread: LanguageBob Firefox addon for Japanese
Post: LanguageBob Firefox addon for Japanese

I've been trying to talk up the Firefox addon LanguageBob around here a bit but up until now it didn't support Japanese. However, I've recently been in correspondence with the program's author who ha...
phauna Learning resources 14 2,145 2009-04-21, 11:32 pm
    Thread: Learning martial arts by yourself?
Post: Learning martial arts by yourself?

Aikido will be impossible (except for breakfalls which would be useful to learn) as I said before, but Kendo contains many things you could learn on your own. Most weapon arts have a heavy emphasis o...
phauna General discussion 29 8,579 2009-04-18, 10:55 pm
    Thread: Learning martial arts by yourself?
Post: Learning martial arts by yourself?

mistamark Wrote:5 of the 24 years I've been training MA D'oh, I thought sure I'd be the ranking guy amongst a bunch of language nerds. Oh well. Judo, Aikido and Karate were mentioned, the first two ...
phauna General discussion 29 8,579 2009-04-17, 4:35 pm
    Thread: Learning martial arts by yourself?
Post: Learning martial arts by yourself?

I'd like to bring my, ahem, 17 years of martial arts experience to this thread. You can learn *some* things from a martial art on your own, especially if you're a beginner. What you need are videos,...
phauna General discussion 29 8,579 2009-04-17, 6:42 am
    Thread: Kanji-lish Firefox plugin - 皆ll ye Heisiger's will 愛ove this!!!!
Post: Kanji-lish Firefox plugin - 皆ll ye Heisiger's will...

A forum member here created Kanjilish. It is useful if you are still doing Heisig but haven't started sentences yet. Another similar plugin is Language Bob, which doesn't support Japanese yet. It r...
phauna General discussion 26 6,956 2009-04-11, 8:20 pm