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    Thread: You know your writing system is complicated when ...
Post: You know your writing system is complicated when ....

... there is a round on a TV quiz where people attempt to decipher it: [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKLSGgYolUM]
anotherjohn General discussion 11 509 2016-06-19, 4:11 pm
    Thread: POST TRANSLATIONS REQUESTS HERE
Post: RE: POST TRANSLATIONS REQUESTS HERE

Whoops should have read this thread first I guess :rolleyes:
anotherjohn General discussion 96 30,153 2016-06-19, 3:50 pm
    Thread: Help translate
Post: RE: Help translate

There is a very thorough answer on lang8.
anotherjohn General discussion 1 137 2016-06-19, 3:49 pm
    Thread: Post your Kanjipeen here!
Post: RE: Post your Kanjipeen here!

The 'peen reached another milestone today too, coincidentally ... after I added a few to break 3500  :rolleyes: The seen cards in this collection contain: 3501 total unique kanji. Old jouyou: 1940 o...
anotherjohn General discussion 30 4,626 2016-06-19, 11:28 am
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: RE: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

Thank you :) Addons used: Progress Graph True Retention Also that's mostly audio cards not pure vocab - cheating really   :blush:
anotherjohn General discussion 1,389 294,163 2016-06-19, 11:23 am
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: RE: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

Just hit 45k active cards, still no end in sight. Also giving some stats addons a try. [Image: http://i.imgur.com/RMfMq4A.jpg]
anotherjohn General discussion 1,389 294,163 2016-06-19, 10:48 am
    Thread: Transcription - Final Fantasy XV Brotherhood Episode 1
Post: RE: Transcription - Final Fantasy XV Brotherhood E...

Lol thank you :) Wish I had done the rest now - it's a pretty good exercise. Kicking myself for not getting 治りゃ
anotherjohn Group study 8 426 2016-06-13, 12:28 pm
    Thread: Transcription - Final Fantasy XV Brotherhood Episode 1
Post: RE: Transcription - Final Fantasy XV Brotherhood E...

EratiK Wrote:Pretty sure 1:38 is ったな, like a contracted ってはな or even 言ったな (you said it, preach) Yep, wasn't at all sure about that bit. I'm just going by the audio as haven't got the English subs. Th...
anotherjohn Group study 8 426 2016-06-13, 10:54 am
    Thread: Transcription - Final Fantasy XV Brotherhood Episode 1
Post: RE: Transcription - Final Fantasy XV Brotherhood E...

01:36 最後の補給をする 01:38 だなっ 01:40 うん 01:43 着いたら起こしてくれ 01:56 いらっしゃいませ 01:58 どれにしようっかな? 02:02 ノクト Sorry gonna have to leave it there - too much to fix!
anotherjohn Group study 8 426 2016-06-13, 8:08 am
    Thread: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge
Post: RE: 多読 Tadoku Reading Challenge

I first encountered 掻き氷 as (rather indistinct) audio in konosuba as 掻き氷屋 - caused a bit of headscratching for me too.
anotherjohn Group study 361 69,055 2016-06-12, 3:24 pm
    Thread: POST TRANSLATIONS REQUESTS HERE
Post: RE: POST TRANSLATIONS REQUESTS HERE

(2016-06-12, 11:51 am)Roketzu Wrote: (2016-06-12, 11:31 am)anotherjohn Wrote: It's raining a bit, but not enough to justify using an umbrella. ちょっぴり雨が降ってるけど、傘をさすほどではない。 Wait, I'm an idiot. You w...
anotherjohn General discussion 96 30,153 2016-06-12, 11:57 am
    Thread: POST TRANSLATIONS REQUESTS HERE
Post: RE: POST TRANSLATIONS REQUESTS HERE

It's raining a bit, but not enough to justify using an umbrella.
anotherjohn General discussion 96 30,153 2016-06-12, 11:31 am
    Thread: Yesterday I couldn't study, and today is just as busy. What do I do?!
Post: RE: Yesterday I couldn't study, and today is just ...

RTK is about learning an English reading (what Heisig calls an 英読み) for each kanji, putting non-漢字圏 learners on the same footing as e.g. Chinese learners, who start with a massive advantage despite kn...
anotherjohn Remembering the Kanji 22 1,323 2016-06-12, 7:09 am
    Thread: jmdict vs edict2
Post: RE: jmdict vs edict2

*Ahem* I'll just leave this here. Not sure if it's relevant to this thread though.
anotherjohn General discussion 15 658 2016-06-11, 4:46 am
    Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig?
Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn...

So Heisig arrived in Japan in Sep 1978 without knowing a word of Japanese. Heisig doesn't name any of the books he referenced while devising RTK. Was it a kanji dictionary with English keywords by an...
anotherjohn Remembering the Kanji 61 3,928 2016-06-06, 10:39 am
    Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig?
Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn...

People who use Heisig's method literally as described in the book seem to be a minority. I did review keyword -> kanji but stopped writing them out after the first ~100, and switched to kanji ->...
anotherjohn Remembering the Kanji 61 3,928 2016-06-06, 4:31 am
    Thread: Yesterday I couldn't study, and today is just as busy. What do I do?!
Post: RE: Yesterday I couldn't study, and today is just ...

I would advise against using Anki's new cards feature at all. Standard practice is to suspend all the cards, and selectively unsuspend the ones you want to learn on an ad hoc basis. Thing is that it...
anotherjohn Remembering the Kanji 22 1,323 2016-06-03, 4:08 pm
    Thread: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I need to know to play a Dragon Quest game?
Post: RE: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I nee...

Taishi Wrote:learn made up words from specific titles such as 魔晄炉 from FF7. Added only to confirm the obvious reading (and for the kanji stats) - there was nothing to 'learn', obviously. What I did d...
anotherjohn General discussion 39 1,670 2016-05-29, 5:55 pm
    Thread: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I need to know to play a Dragon Quest game?
Post: RE: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I nee...

I didn't have a word that uses 晄 but thanks to 魔晄炉 my kanjipeen has grown to 3431 (and one step closer to 100% 人名用 coverage to boot). Welcome to the forum :)
anotherjohn General discussion 39 1,670 2016-05-29, 4:49 pm
    Thread: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I need to know to play a Dragon Quest game?
Post: RE: Stupid question but how much Japanese do I nee...

魔晄炉 extended my kanjipeen, thank you :)
anotherjohn General discussion 39 1,670 2016-05-29, 4:18 pm
    Thread: Making Learning Japanese Fun
Post: RE: Making Learning Japanese Fun

maxwell777 Wrote:I haven't added new material in a long time. On the occasions that I have stopped adding material to let the reviews die down a bit I have felt an awful sense of stagnation and a *dec...
anotherjohn General discussion 43 2,826 2016-05-23, 4:16 am
    Thread: Post your Kanjipeen here!
Post: RE: Post your Kanjipeen here!

Just hit 3400 - seem to be picking up a lot lately, which is odd because I haven't read much besides the first konosuba LN. The seen cards in this collection contain: 3400 total unique kanji. Old jou...
anotherjohn General discussion 30 4,626 2016-05-22, 5:17 pm
    Thread: Japanese Programming/Computer Term Deck
Post: RE: Japanese Programming/Computer Term Deck

Also, a search for |comp| in JMdict complete returns 12,091 cards.
anotherjohn Learning resources 4 572 2016-05-22, 4:33 am
    Thread: What are your learning steps for vocabulary/ Core decks?
Post: RE: What are your learning steps for vocabulary/ C...

My settings: Decks are in 4 groups, Active::1 Words, Active::2 Sentences, Active::3 Misc and Active::4 Audio The top-level Active group is to separate the decks I'm using from random stuff I've down...
anotherjohn General discussion 6 717 2016-05-20, 3:16 pm
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: RE: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

A tough act to follow above, but I guess I just hit a milestone of sorts in that I now have over 42k active cards  :-/ [Image: http://i.imgur.com/fzUYeXu.png] A large chunk of that is audio cards btw,...
anotherjohn General discussion 1,389 294,163 2016-05-07, 12:46 pm
    Thread: Post your Kanjipeen here!
Post: RE: Post your Kanjipeen here!

Flamerokz Wrote:@anotherjohn just curious where have your recent cards been coming from? All over the place really. I've been reading quite a lot lately without really meaning to, and often end up on ...
anotherjohn General discussion 30 4,626 2016-05-02, 3:17 pm
    Thread: Post your Kanjipeen here!
Post: RE: Post your Kanjipeen here!

Been a while since the last kanjipeen update: 3337 total unique kanji. Old jouyou: 1940 of 1940 (100.0%). New jouyou: 196 of 196 (100.0%). Jinmeiyou (regular): 492 of 641 (76.8%). Jinmeiyou (variant)...
anotherjohn General discussion 30 4,626 2016-05-02, 6:24 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: RE: The "What's this word/phrase?" threa...

FlameseeK Wrote:Question 1: レベル:総合的な能力の高さを示す値 I instinctively read this as ち - pretty sure that's right as it's always read that way when referring to player stats, as in this case ('suffix' tag notwi...
anotherjohn The Japanese language 8,332 1,451,883 2016-04-30, 4:17 am
    Thread: anki color schemes
Post: RE: anki color schemes

Nice colours. That may not be the best word to associate with 'meadow' though 原稿 = original + draft = manuscript 草原 = grass + meadow = grassy plain
anotherjohn Off topic 25 4,258 2016-04-29, 2:15 am
    Thread: Am I doing the most appropriate things to improve listening ability?
Post: RE: Am I doing the most appropriate things to impr...

I've been listening to an audiobook of The Hobbit which I got from Febe, though it's been pretty tough going.
anotherjohn The Japanese language 61 9,721 2016-04-28, 1:35 pm