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    Thread: Extending RTK 1 methods to vocabulary acquisition
Post: RE: Extending RTK 1 methods to vocabulary acquisit...

(2016-03-27, 12:51 pm)fkb9g Wrote: I'm a beginner at Japanese. When learning other languages, vocabulary acquisition has been my biggest obstacle. I think I have some good ideas for maximizing vocab...
Matthias General discussion 1 434 2016-03-27, 5:09 pm
    Thread: List of extra kanji (RTK4)
Post: RE: List of extra kanji (RTK4)

(2016-03-24, 10:20 pm)Aristi Wrote: Hi Matthias, could you check if the second link still works?  Because it seems like a very interesting material. Thanks in advance!! https://docs.google.com/sprea...
Matthias General discussion 30 13,913 2016-03-25, 8:06 am
    Thread: List of extra kanji (RTK4)
Post: RE: List of extra kanji (RTK4)

KameDemaK Wrote: Imagine that I decide to print the document. Leaving aside that spreadsheets are sometimes a pain to print because of the page boundaries, I would rather study the Kanjis one by one i...
Matthias General discussion 30 13,913 2016-03-22, 4:09 pm
    Thread: List of extra kanji (RTK4)
Post: RE: List of extra kanji (RTK4)

(2016-03-17, 4:27 am)KameDemaK Wrote: OK, so I'm guessing those are thecite's stories then? Thanks. Does anyone have the original document though? I guess it wasn't a spreadsheet, and who knows, spr...
Matthias General discussion 30 13,913 2016-03-17, 7:20 am
    Thread: List of extra kanji (RTK4)
Post: RE: List of extra kanji (RTK4)

(2016-03-16, 11:46 am)KameDemaK Wrote: Megaupload is of course dead. Can we have an updated link? Thanks. Both spreadsheets linked above should contain the content: spreadsheet (Katsuo) https://do...
Matthias General discussion 30 13,913 2016-03-16, 11:09 pm
    Thread: Good Place to Start for Consistent Immersion
Post: RE: Good Place to Start for Consistent Immersion

(2016-03-10, 7:31 am)maxwell777 Wrote: How effective is daily immersion, even if you don't understand 80-90% of what you listen to? I just remembered an Italian word which I picked up some 28 years ...
Matthias General discussion 27 3,174 2016-03-11, 6:56 pm
    Thread: Core 6k vs Sentence mining.
Post: RE: Core 6k vs Sentence mining.

(2016-02-20, 9:50 pm)danatoth Wrote: (2016-02-20, 8:57 pm)Matthias Wrote: Though there is a version which tried to sort the deck according to i+1 to avoid that you get several new words at a time....
Matthias The Japanese language 12 1,342 2016-02-21, 8:30 am
    Thread: Core 6k vs Sentence mining.
Post: RE: Core 6k vs Sentence mining.

Sentence mining "in the wild" gives per definition a random number of new words in the sentence. If it is 0 the sentence is probably not interesting enough to enter into your learning base. If it is ...
Matthias The Japanese language 12 1,342 2016-02-20, 8:57 pm
    Thread: RTK2 Pure groups confusion
Post: RE: RTK2 Pure groups confusion

(2016-02-15, 8:03 pm)Lightninjaj Wrote: I'm a little bit confused about the pure groups introduced in Chapter 2 of RTK2. It is my understanding that for these subset of kanji, each time we see a par...
Matthias General discussion 9 1,011 2016-02-16, 8:05 pm
    Thread: Japanese TV + Japanese Subs
Post: RE: Japanese TV + Japanese Subs

(2016-02-01, 3:56 pm)cm2jr4 Wrote: I have been searching with no luck, I can only find dramas and anime. There seem to be several 2013 srt here: http://www.d-addicts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16054...
Matthias Off topic 15 6,830 2016-02-01, 4:28 pm
    Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants
Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants

Originally "stationery" is frame 2991 and there it is 箋. It just includes the comment "The standard abbreviation one would have expected here—and which is likely to appear in official lists in the yea...
Matthias Remembering the Kanji 41 4,185 2016-01-31, 11:22 am
    Thread: cloze deletion again
Post: RE: cloze deletion again

(2016-01-25, 3:52 pm)cophnia61 Wrote: In a far future I would like to do something like cloze-deletion to reinforce the link between some kanji and their readings. The problem is, being both the kan...
Matthias The Japanese language 4 807 2016-01-25, 7:16 pm
    Thread: Success stories
Post: RE: Success stories

(2015-12-28, 11:27 am)Tzadeck Wrote: ... she said 最近荒波があった (or something like that) and I was like 'WTF is aranami'?  Anytime you have a complete conversation breakdown you still feel kinda dumb. li...
Matthias General discussion 21 2,901 2015-12-28, 7:16 pm
    Thread: How do you recommend reviewing RTK 2/ readings?
Post: RE: How do you recommend reviewing RTK 2/ readings...

(2015-12-28, 8:27 am)Sztermel Wrote: Thanks for reply! Now I have a dillema - switch to the deck provided on the website and start all over or modify my deck to be more recognition like, with exemp...
Matthias General discussion 3 750 2015-12-28, 7:08 pm
    Thread: How do you recommend reviewing RTK 2/ readings?
Post: RE: How do you recommend reviewing RTK 2/ readings...

(2015-12-26, 3:11 pm)Sztermel Wrote: Do you think such cards would be optimal for learning, would serve their purpose? Do you use any other, better decks that contain practical exemples of the words...
Matthias General discussion 3 750 2015-12-26, 8:38 pm
    Thread: .....
Post: RE: I got this for Christmas yay!!

(2015-12-26, 3:30 pm)Zarxrax Wrote: I've sort of wanted this for a while, looks really interesting. A paper version would be pretty useless to me though, as the only good use I could think of it wou...
Matthias Learning resources 5 1,201 2015-12-26, 6:20 pm
    Thread: RTK2 Paper Flashcards.
Post: RE: RTK2 Paper Flashcards.

(2015-12-23, 11:20 pm)AussieTrooper Wrote: When doing RTK1 I found that using printed out paper flashcards very useful, so that each of the groups could be done together until I was comfortable with...
Matthias General discussion 2 609 2015-12-24, 7:23 pm
    Thread: .....
Post: RE: Thoughts on RTK2...(my two cents)

(2015-12-20, 11:44 am)anotherjohn Wrote: Great! Can you read these? 下半身 下種 下界 下降 下請負 下部温泉 最下部 最高値 最高額 最安値 生死 生涯 生身 生者必滅 生成 That post reminds me of 下半身露出. 下 is not part of any of the pure, semi or ...
Matthias Remembering the Kanji 3 832 2015-12-20, 3:48 pm
    Thread: NEW FORUM: General feedback
Post: RE: NEW FORUM: General feedback

(2015-12-17, 6:39 am)fuaburisu Wrote: Feedback is still very much appreciated. How's the forum working for you? First of all thanks again for the good job and also for your patience and readiness to...
Matthias General discussion 122 15,814 2015-12-17, 3:12 pm
    Thread: Core decks vs extensive reading
Post: RE: Core decks vs extensive reading

(2015-12-15, 10:13 pm)yogert909 Wrote: Sentence cards definitely cause me to guess the meaning of the word being tested by accidentally memorizing the sentence. I've found myself reflexively passin...
Matthias The Japanese language 114 7,705 2015-12-16, 1:14 am
    Thread: Core decks vs extensive reading
Post: RE: Core decks vs extensive reading

(2015-12-15, 8:21 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: Once again, thanks a lot for the replies guys. My current deck does have sentences in the front. That's how I'll be reading words anyway, so I like that idea. ...
Matthias The Japanese language 114 7,705 2015-12-15, 9:42 pm
    Thread: Views on learning on-yomi readings, perfect groups/ signal primitives.
Post: RE: Views on learning on-yomi readings, perfect gr...

(2015-12-05, 8:17 am)Sztermel Wrote: ..., do you think that learning these groups would be beneficial and fix some issues I may have in the future? Is there any anki deck that I could use for that ...
Matthias General discussion 8 1,129 2015-12-05, 12:24 pm
    Thread: What's your 2016 study plan?
Post: RE: What's your 2016 study plan?

(2015-12-03, 2:13 pm)RawrPk Wrote: 6th end RTK has a total of 2200 kanji. Previous versions have 2043 of which the JALUP RTK deck is based off of. Some of the keywords have changed too as I compared...
Matthias General discussion 28 3,842 2015-12-03, 7:11 pm
    Thread: NEW FORUM: Mobile & Responsive Design
Post: RE: NEW FORUM: Mobile & Responsive Design

(2015-11-28, 6:47 pm)kameden Wrote: Am I the only one who has to sign in like every other day? Did not happen to me yet.
Matthias General discussion 32 5,111 2015-11-28, 6:51 pm
    Thread: NEW FORUM: Recent Topics
Post: NEW FORUM: Recent Topics

hhannahhjp & ファブリス Wrote:Latest post search is gone ? ... ... I just made the Off topic and Chinese forums absent from the index page. Could you include Koohi Lounge, than it would completely sub...
Matthias General discussion 12 1,156 2015-11-15, 4:07 pm
    Thread: Regarding Anki word recalling
Post: Regarding Anki word recalling

yogert909 Wrote:I do add the sentence to the back of the card so if there's any ambiguity in the meaning of the word, I can read the sentence. Several people put the sentence separately on the front -...
Matthias Learning resources 48 5,509 2015-11-09, 10:22 pm
    Thread: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW
Post: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW

Fabrice, one of the reasons why the reversed one looks better, is that the box on the right gives an end to the categories area. 1. I agree that the different tag size stands out but it is nothing I...
Matthias General discussion 65 7,882 2015-11-05, 12:07 pm
    Thread: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW
Post: Forum Upgrade PREVIEW

Fabrice, reversed looks better. The category tags have all different sizes. What about one box to frame all tags. It would look less scattered. Also the header of the page would probably look better...
Matthias General discussion 65 7,882 2015-11-05, 12:58 am
    Thread: Is there a way to see a list of all Kanji in an Anki deck?
Post: Is there a way to see a list of all Kanji in an An...

Sorry, you have blanks before each RtK Kanji - that means in the field itself. So the formula compares " 一" with "一" from Pimsleur, that is why it can not match. You can mark the complete column and ...
Matthias Learning resources 17 1,611 2015-10-20, 1:32 pm
    Thread: Is there a way to see a list of all Kanji in an Anki deck?
Post: Is there a way to see a list of all Kanji in an An...

remove the blanks in the Hg Kanji fields (they are in front of each kanji) [and then you take the formula down until line 402)
Matthias Learning resources 17 1,611 2015-10-20, 12:59 pm