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    Thread: Do you speak/learn any other languages?
Post: Do you speak/learn any other languages?

I'm French and lived in the US for 4 years when I was little so I can speak both languages fluently. I learned a bit of Spanish in school and have lots of spanish friends so I can pick up on that a bi...
devilsbabe Off topic 32 6,733 2013-10-02, 11:14 am
    Thread: Has suicide become too popularized in Japan?
Post: Has suicide become too popularized in Japan?

VICE did a great documentary on the forest: [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FDSdg09df8]
devilsbabe Off topic 60 11,143 2013-09-17, 2:45 am
    Thread: J-CAT
Post: J-CAT

Thanks for bringing this test to my attention. Having concrete scores to improve on gets me motivated for some reason :p. Listening 44 Vocabulary 66 Grammar 47 Reading 47 Total 204 I guess my vocab...
devilsbabe JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 65 37,172 2013-09-15, 11:35 am
    Thread: Continuing with Anki after 2 month break?
Post: Continuing with Anki after 2 month break?

I'm in the exact same situation right now, got 1540 cards to review on this site. I think I'm just gonna try and review something like 100 a day. There's no point in trying to rush the reviews, I'll d...
devilsbabe Remembering the Kanji 7 3,481 2013-06-21, 7:00 pm
    Thread: Vocab flashcards: forward, reverse, or both?
Post: Vocab flashcards: forward, reverse, or both?

If your goal is sentence reading ASAP then I would think that recognition is the more efficient choice. That's what you're doing when reading, recognizing words you've seen before. So practice that. ...
devilsbabe The Japanese language 22 5,852 2013-05-03, 6:01 pm
    Thread: How many vocabulary or kanji are you learning per hour?
Post: How many vocabulary or kanji are you learning per ...

In your anki stats, select deck life. Then in the Review Time section there should be a "Total: X hours"
devilsbabe The Japanese language 12 3,407 2013-05-03, 5:53 pm
    Thread: How many vocabulary or kanji are you learning per hour?
Post: How many vocabulary or kanji are you learning per ...

According to the Anki stats, I've been using the optimized Core deck for 43 days and I'm at 1450 cards with 51 hours of study and my retention rates are 90%, 84.5% and 98.5%, but those are bound to go...
devilsbabe The Japanese language 12 3,407 2013-05-03, 5:42 pm
    Thread: Judgement of this Japanese test?
Post: Judgement of this Japanese test?

I'm nearing the end of a 2 year course, and we're supposed to know around 400 kanji. That's not much, but I can understand that time is limited and we obviously can't go over all of them. Compared to ...
devilsbabe The Japanese language 5 1,594 2013-04-18, 6:12 am
    Thread: Judgement of this Japanese test?
Post: Judgement of this Japanese test?

The kanji part of the test is clearly too easy for someone who's been studying japanese for two years. I don't know how they can justify only teaching 100 kanji in 2 years, that's completely ridiculou...
devilsbabe The Japanese language 5 1,594 2013-04-17, 4:59 pm
    Thread: Avatar of Our Admin
Post: Avatar of Our Admin

I don't know about post signatures, I usually don't like them very much. Sometimes there'll be an interesting quote or funny message, but more often than not I find it's just an ALL CAPS BOLD FLASHING...
devilsbabe Off topic 8 2,866 2013-04-17, 4:05 am
    Thread: Avatar of Our Admin
Post: Avatar of Our Admin

Not sure if he got the image from that book, but just FYI that's the Helix Nebula. No idea why he used it though ^^, there maybe isn't one. I use this as my wallpaper with no particular reason other t...
devilsbabe Off topic 8 2,866 2013-04-16, 6:58 am
    Thread: Failed to load NHK Easy
Post: Failed to load NHK Easy

I found the issue: I had AdBlock on for NHK, which was keeping the site from loading. Thanks for the encouragement :)
devilsbabe Learning resources 3 1,019 2013-04-05, 9:52 am
    Thread: Failed to load NHK Easy
Post: Failed to load NHK Easy

Hey all, I've been checking out http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/ for the past few weeks, trying to read an article a day. It's been awsome but when I tried to go on the site today, the layout had cha...
devilsbabe Learning resources 3 1,019 2013-04-05, 6:51 am
    Thread: window 7 japanese input error
Post: window 7 japanese input error

One shortcut that's saved me a bunch of time and that I didn't know about for a long time is [Alt + Caps Lock]. It'll switch between entering romaji, hiragana or katakana (your keys are still roman le...
devilsbabe General discussion 11 2,691 2013-03-05, 4:22 pm
    Thread: Why speaking English can make you poor when you retire
Post: Why speaking English can make you poor when you re...

If you want to hear the researcher's arguments first-hand, he did a TED talk which was posted on youtube a few days ago: [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw3YTbubyjI]. I think the fact that he ...
devilsbabe Off topic 12 3,202 2013-02-23, 1:59 pm
    Thread: Sex ratio of this forum?
Post: Sex ratio of this forum?

63:36. In my japanese class we're 10 guys to 2 girls, so definitely a lot more girls here than I expected
devilsbabe Off topic 148 26,514 2012-12-10, 10:00 am
    Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!
Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!

Hi all, newbie here. I started RTK a little over two weeks ago and I gotta say the results are pretty incredible. I never thought I'd be able to learn kanji so fast. I made it to 577 today but not as ...
devilsbabe Remembering the Kanji 526 167,148 2012-11-15, 4:42 pm