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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... No point doing RTK if you are only going to go to say a N4 level. If you are going to grind in 4K hours + into the project than it makes more sense to do RTK and do it up front. Much like doing drill... |
Dudeist | Remembering the Kanji | 61 | 3,992 | 2016-06-13, 6:20 am | ||
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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... I get the impression that a lot of the opposition is people expecting it to do more than it is supposed it. It doesn't teach you to read or write the language nor be able to listen to or speak it. All... |
Dudeist | Remembering the Kanji | 61 | 3,992 | 2016-06-07, 3:39 am | ||
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Thread: Studying medicine in Japan Post: RE: Studying medicine in Japan I could have sworn I read a story regarding a foreign doctor examining a foreign abuse victim of a foreign priest at a school in Japan. It seems from the above that you can get licence to practice in... |
Dudeist | Off topic | 17 | 5,347 | 2016-05-30, 7:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Who is your "Person" (Lesson 27)? Post: RE: Who is your "Person" (Lesson 27)? (2016-05-06, 12:55 pm)yogert909 Wrote: (2016-05-05, 11:41 pm)Dudeist Wrote: (2016-05-05, 6:13 pm)Stansfield123 Wrote: Mr. T. Fu*k. That means I'm old. (34 is old, right?) If you've ever seen ev... |
Dudeist | Remembering the Kanji | 66 | 19,521 | 2016-05-06, 3:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Who is your "Person" (Lesson 27)? Post: RE: Who is your "Person" (Lesson 27)? (2016-05-05, 6:13 pm)Stansfield123 Wrote: Mr. T. Fu*k. That means I'm old. (34 is old, right?) If you've ever seen even so much as one episode of the A-team, that's the guy you wanna go with. His s... |
Dudeist | Remembering the Kanji | 66 | 19,521 | 2016-05-05, 11:41 pm | ||
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Thread: About to finish Genki 1 and feeling a little discouraged... Post: RE: About to finish Genki 1 and feeling a little d... (2016-03-15, 3:08 pm)CureDolly Wrote: The barriers to entry are definitely higher in Japanese than in Spanish or French (for an English or other West European language speaker). In the long run I ... |
Dudeist | General discussion | 27 | 2,813 | 2016-03-15, 4:17 pm | ||
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Thread: About to finish Genki 1 and feeling a little discouraged... Post: RE: About to finish Genki 1 and feeling a little d... (2016-03-15, 3:53 am)Zgarbas Wrote: I know people who've been studying for 10 years and can barely read nhk easy news. It's called 'intermittent study' and 'blaming it on the language rather than ad... |
Dudeist | General discussion | 27 | 2,813 | 2016-03-15, 4:00 pm | ||
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Thread: About to finish Genki 1 and feeling a little discouraged... Post: RE: About to finish Genki 1 and feeling a little d... That is the nature of French and Spanish or German vs Chinese and Japanese. There is that list of languages by that US gov organization that trains people in foriegn languages. From memory Spanish ta... |
Dudeist | General discussion | 27 | 2,813 | 2016-03-14, 6:58 pm | ||
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Thread: How would you replace the Kanji writing system? Post: RE: How would you replace the Kanji writing system... Klingon. It was good enough for Shakespeare it should be good enough for everyone else. |
Dudeist | General discussion | 25 | 2,583 | 2016-03-07, 6:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Life in Japan and bubbles Post: RE: Life in Japan and bubbles I was reading a blog about a guy who spent a year in Korea. He learned a few words and refused to go any further. He figured he would be gone in a year and it would be useless to him afterwords, and i... |
Dudeist | General discussion | 47 | 5,896 | 2016-02-26, 1:29 pm | ||
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Thread: I've failed...and I've been lying to myself Post: RE: I've failed...and I've been lying to myself (2016-02-20, 11:54 pm)sholum Wrote: It's about as much learning Japanese as it is learning Chinese; sure, you might be able to pick out a few characters in a Chinese text (not simplified) by studyin... |
Dudeist | The Japanese language | 60 | 7,041 | 2016-02-21, 4:21 am | ||
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Thread: I've failed...and I've been lying to myself Post: RE: I've failed...and I've been lying to myself (2016-02-20, 4:15 pm)ryuudou Wrote: Kanji is Japanese. But there's nothing wrong with switching it up. Lots of people say "kanji isn't Japanese" to emphasize that the "real" learning doesn't begin ... |
Dudeist | The Japanese language | 60 | 7,041 | 2016-02-20, 6:59 pm | ||
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Thread: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants Post: RE: (Kanji Koohii) Dealing with Joyo variants I've noticed a lot of differences between the book and my deck. The Self version of snake gets switched to the zodiac version [IIRC I've not gotten that far yet] an awful lot A lot of large gets turn... |
Dudeist | Remembering the Kanji | 41 | 4,188 | 2016-02-15, 5:55 pm | ||
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Thread: Japan or Taiwan. Post: RE: Japan or Taiwan. (2016-02-13, 8:53 pm)mc962 Wrote: Out of curiosity, what is your approximate goal at this point for where you want to get with the language. Is it perfect fluency, to the point that you want to soun... |
Dudeist | General discussion | 28 | 3,385 | 2016-02-14, 1:10 am | ||
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Thread: Japan or Taiwan. Post: RE: Japan or Taiwan. (2016-02-12, 2:15 pm)angelneko Wrote: Just wondering. Not saying this is your goal, but tons of people study Japanese, not even to talk to real people or visit Japan, but solely to read manga, play... |
Dudeist | General discussion | 28 | 3,385 | 2016-02-13, 2:39 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese "politeness levels" Post: RE: Japanese "politeness levels" Nothing wrong with the word dude IMHO. As a priest in the Church of the Latter Day Dude [the dudeists] I think I can speak with some authority on that. However that is just my opinion man. http://du... |
Dudeist | General discussion | 52 | 4,364 | 2016-02-11, 11:51 pm | ||
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Thread: Japan or Taiwan. Post: RE: Japan or Taiwan. (2016-02-11, 12:12 am)Wurstmann Wrote: Or come to the Mainland where KMarkP's first three points are valid, too. xD If it were not so horribly polluted Mainland China would be high on that list. I ... |
Dudeist | General discussion | 28 | 3,385 | 2016-02-11, 2:56 pm | ||
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Thread: I don't really get the point of the "report story" function? Post: RE: I don't really get the point of the "report st... I find the best stories are ones that are clever in one way or another. Regardless of levels of filth. Although I enjoy the humour of Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Carr I do find some stories just seem t... |
Dudeist | General discussion | 10 | 1,310 | 2016-02-06, 8:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Any way to shove cards to the BACK of an Anki deck(no review until I reach the end)? Post: RE: Any way to shove cards to the BACK of an Anki ... (2016-02-02, 1:50 pm)Stansfield123 Wrote: (2016-02-02, 1:29 pm)john555 Wrote: LOL! You just proved my point :) No, I didn't :( Flashbacks to the Monty Python's I'd like to buy an argument skit. |
Dudeist | Learning resources | 15 | 1,345 | 2016-02-02, 6:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Who is your "Person" (Lesson 27)? Post: RE: Who is your "Person" (Lesson 27)? I stuck with Mr T. I remember hearing that there are a lot of Mr T stories and the moment I read the advice to pick a particular person and the T shape of person, let us just say it was not a surprise... |
Dudeist | Remembering the Kanji | 66 | 19,521 | 2016-01-28, 3:38 pm | ||
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Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Post: RE: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Oh, there is a 3/4 thread. I am at 1800 and change. So close, I really should push it, push it real good and finish up that mofo. |
Dudeist | Remembering the Kanji | 462 | 138,161 | 2016-01-27, 4:49 am | ||
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Thread: Kinokuniya is hiring Post: RE: Kinokuniya is hiring (2016-01-26, 8:18 am)SomeCallMeChris Wrote: Well... bookstore jobs, Japanese or not, are -always- that way. And the compensation is -terrible- because everybody who reads books thinks working in a b... |
Dudeist | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 8 | 1,563 | 2016-01-26, 8:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Where's Khatzumoto? Post: RE: Where's Khatzumoto? Making murals from the blood of slauthered emos? Jeez not a huge fan of the mopey buggers but it is a bit much. Kinda messed up like decking the halls with the bowels of some poor girl named Holly to ... |
Dudeist | Off topic | 529 | 102,660 | 2016-01-23, 6:17 am | ||
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Thread: How Do I Start Investing? Post: RE: How Do I Start Investing? (2016-01-21, 3:39 pm)TheVinster Wrote: (2016-01-21, 11:42 am)jcdietz03 Wrote: (2016-01-16, 1:58 am)Dudeist Wrote: Random walk down wall street is a pretty good book. I second the motion. This ad... |
Dudeist | Off topic | 42 | 4,976 | 2016-01-21, 4:16 pm | ||
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Thread: RTK forgetting mature cards Post: RE: RTK forgetting mature cards (2016-01-20, 5:40 pm)pm215 Wrote: Thing is, that's then 15 minutes less available for doing vocab cards or whatever else you might want to be studying. A two month maximum sounds very very short to ... |
Dudeist | Remembering the Kanji | 16 | 1,663 | 2016-01-21, 3:35 am | ||
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Thread: RTK forgetting mature cards Post: RE: RTK forgetting mature cards Sometimes, if I haven't put up a hint in the keyword I'll just write out all the options of what I think it is and consider it a win if one of them is right then adjust the keyword. I've been at it s... |
Dudeist | Remembering the Kanji | 16 | 1,663 | 2016-01-20, 5:29 pm | ||
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Thread: RTK forgetting mature cards Post: RE: RTK forgetting mature cards (2016-01-19, 9:12 pm)yogert909 Wrote: 10% isn't bad in my opinion. For some reason kanji are a lot more forgettable than vocabulary for some reason. I hope so. I fear vocab a bit. I really shoul... |
Dudeist | Remembering the Kanji | 16 | 1,663 | 2016-01-20, 4:31 am | ||
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Thread: RTK forgetting mature cards Post: RE: RTK forgetting mature cards (2016-01-20, 3:52 am)tetsueda Wrote: You could try to put the kanji that it is not on the front if some keywords are troublesome (and iirc they are). I've been doing that more and more. Not the Kan... |
Dudeist | Remembering the Kanji | 16 | 1,663 | 2016-01-20, 4:26 am | ||
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Thread: RTK forgetting mature cards Post: RTK forgetting mature cards I am getting about 10% of mature cards wrong [I am at about 1560] I am guessing it isn't too much of a problem. Usually it is a keyword confusion or I get a detail wrong although sometimes I just bla... |
Dudeist | Remembering the Kanji | 16 | 1,663 | 2016-01-19, 8:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Maeda Atsuko finally left AKB48. Good riddance Post: RE: Maeda Atsuko finally left AKB48. Good riddance Don't really follow them but I wouldn't call Maeda Atsuko mediocre looking at best or plain looking. Don't get me wrong, she isn't uber hot like Kate Micucci or Lauren Lapkus but that is raising the b... |
Dudeist | General discussion | 19 | 10,907 | 2016-01-16, 1:37 pm | ||
