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    Thread: Vivid images in your head, or just catchy phrases?
Post: Vivid images in your head, or just catchy phrases?

Just go with whatever works for you. I've been struggling with RTK on and off for the past few years and this last go at it I think I've got the hang of it. I think my problem before is that because...
nagisa General discussion 25 7,807 2008-09-03, 8:44 pm
    Thread: RevTK Donation Drive
Post: RevTK Donation Drive

I'm quite broke, but I'd definitely be able to put in $5 or $10 towards this site - it's been such an amazing study resource! (Even if I still haven't gotten around to -finishing- RTK yet...) ...
nagisa Off topic 43 10,111 2008-05-29, 12:11 pm
    Thread: Have you ever showed you RTK skills to someone?
Post: Have you ever showed you RTK skills to someone?

I'm not done RTK yet due to lack of time, but I'm slowly working my way through it. I do a language exchange twice a week and even with the ~1200 I actually know my language buddy is frequently impres...
nagisa Remembering the Kanji 7 1,767 2008-05-12, 8:47 pm
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

rich_f Wrote:Huh. Would んが just be a contraction of のが? Sort of like how んです is a contraction of のです? I'm pretty sure what they were referring to is a pronunciation thing, completely unrelated to んです....
nagisa General discussion 1,517 595,143 2008-05-09, 10:54 am
    Thread: Pen handling
Post: Pen handling

Hmm...I wouldn't have considered the effect of having your paper angled. Very interesting. I find my writing is moderately better if I hold my pen vertically and actually try to write nicely. It's no...
nagisa General discussion 18 12,875 2008-04-28, 10:03 pm
    Thread: watashi, boku or ore
Post: watashi, boku or ore

I was talking to my language exchange buddy about this a few days ago and while most of our conversation was about what pronouns I should use when (since I'm female, we mostly talked about あたし、私、and u...
nagisa General discussion 38 12,531 2008-04-23, 12:52 am
    Thread: japanese teaching manual bookshops in Nagoya
Post: japanese teaching manual bookshops in Nagoya

I lived near Nagoya for close to year while I was on exchange in high school. This was over 3 years ago so I can't remember the names of stores anymore - but there is hope! If you go to just about any...
nagisa Learning resources 25 4,908 2008-03-26, 10:33 pm
    Thread: Who Introduced you to Heisig?
Post: Who Introduced you to Heisig?

I heard about Heisig over 3 years ago, and I'm not even sure how anymore. I think it was through searching for Japanese books and study materials. I downloaded the first 100 pages and thought it was g...
nagisa General discussion 47 13,188 2008-02-25, 11:27 am
    Thread: Does anybody draw actual pictures?
Post: Does anybody draw actual pictures?

I can't say that I have, but that is actually a really good idea for kanji that just won't stick.
nagisa Remembering the Kanji 39 12,204 2008-02-22, 1:31 am
    Thread: What age are you?
Post: What age are you?

20 On and off for more than 3 years now, only been serious about it since around November '07. Planning to finish by March 15th. Frame 1719
nagisa Off topic 357 73,694 2008-02-21, 1:33 pm
    Thread: How many Japanese words do you know?
Post: How many Japanese words do you know?

In my case it gave me way less than what I actually know. I'm quite sure I know more than 800 words :P (I was only checking the ones I was 100% positive about.)
nagisa General discussion 5 2,016 2008-02-11, 2:27 pm
    Thread: Facebook app ready for testing!
Post: Facebook app ready for testing!

Looks good so far! I've added it. Now I'll have to constantly explain to my friends that I don't actually know that many kanji, at least by their terms :P
nagisa Learning resources 22 4,654 2008-02-08, 11:47 am
    Thread: Monolinguals
Post: Monolinguals

While I'm by no means an expert, I have taken a few linguistics courses recently at university so I can at least tell you a bit about current linguistic theory regarding language acquisition (and anyb...
nagisa General discussion 37 6,479 2008-02-07, 8:45 pm
    Thread: Jpop <3
Post: Jpop <3

To be honest I probably listen to more jrock (ie: Ellegarden, Bump of Chicken, Asian Kung-Fu Generation) than jpop...but my favorite jpop group would probably have to be Arashi.
nagisa Off topic 41 11,598 2008-01-21, 12:19 pm
    Thread: RevTK Failed Kanji Helper
Post: RevTK Failed Kanji Helper

That looks awesome. If there was a version for mac I would definitely use it.
nagisa Learning resources 18 5,672 2007-12-20, 10:07 pm
    Thread: Half way!
Post: Half way!

I just hit the halfway mark today too. It's nice to read everybody's comments about how they got through the book. I have had RTK for about 3 years but it's only this term at school (I'm in an intensi...
nagisa Remembering the Kanji 616 180,466 2007-11-30, 11:44 pm
    Thread: Improving reading speed for kana
Post: Improving reading speed for kana

Reading aloud. It really helps when you can hear the mistakes you're making in reading, and can also help you fix mistakes in your pronunciation. It can get tiring to read everything aloud, but if y...
nagisa The Japanese language 13 10,132 2007-11-16, 10:37 am
    Thread: macs and japanese
Post: macs and japanese

Go for it. I had far more problems trying to get my old windows computer to read and type Japanese. My mac handles it without any trouble and it's dead simple to switch between languages. As for Anki,...
nagisa Off topic 11 2,538 2007-11-13, 9:45 pm