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    Thread: Learning Japanese through Video Games (twitch.tv channel)
Post: Learning Japanese through Video Games (twitch.tv c...

Just an update on my channel. I wasn't a 三日坊主(みっかぼうず) for this one, and I've been broadcasting every weeknight at 6pm EDT (GMT -5) since the last time I posted. There have been some improvements to th...
mantixen Group study 14 4,367 2014-09-21, 2:03 pm
    Thread: Learning Japanese through Video Games (twitch.tv channel)
Post: Learning Japanese through Video Games (twitch.tv c...

ファブリス Wrote:As of today, remember to turn the VODs you want to keep into highlights, otherwise they will only last for a week or so. Thanks for the tip. I'll turn some of them into highlights after wo...
mantixen Group study 14 4,367 2014-08-27, 7:26 am
    Thread: Learning Japanese through Video Games (twitch.tv channel)
Post: Learning Japanese through Video Games (twitch.tv c...

Twitch.tv is working again, yay! I successfully streamed a new video and uploaded a recording of it to YouTube. Here are those two links, including the link to the exported Anki cards from the video: ...
mantixen Group study 14 4,367 2014-08-25, 5:44 pm
    Thread: Learning Japanese through Video Games (twitch.tv channel)
Post: Learning Japanese through Video Games (twitch.tv c...

SomeCallMeChris Wrote:When I do watch twitch streams, I often won't stick around long on a channel with music playing (which is most of them, it seems), because then I can't play my own music. I guess...
mantixen Group study 14 4,367 2014-08-25, 5:21 am
    Thread: Learning Japanese through Video Games (twitch.tv channel)
Post: Learning Japanese through Video Games (twitch.tv c...

Is there a tried and true source of background music that won't get flagged as copyright infringement and therefore muted? I'd hate to record a whole episode only to have no audio because a song got f...
mantixen Group study 14 4,367 2014-08-24, 10:00 am
    Thread: Learning Japanese through Video Games (twitch.tv channel)
Post: Learning Japanese through Video Games (twitch.tv c...

Helltrixz Wrote:I watched a VoD from yesterday and from a viewers perspective there wasn't much point watching. Explain what you're doing, what are the sentences about, talk more! Your feedback has be...
mantixen Group study 14 4,367 2014-08-24, 6:43 am
    Thread: Learning Japanese through Video Games (twitch.tv channel)
Post: Learning Japanese through Video Games (twitch.tv c...

I think you might be talking about the video where they muted the audio because I was playing copyrighted music in the background. I left the one video that still retained unmuted audio (maybe due to ...
mantixen Group study 14 4,367 2014-08-23, 9:50 pm
    Thread: Learning Japanese through Video Games (twitch.tv channel)
Post: Learning Japanese through Video Games (twitch.tv c...

A lot of material I study comes from Japanese video games, and I thought I might as well study live in case it helps anybody else wanting to learn. I've started a channel on twitch.tv, and I'd like to...
mantixen Group study 14 4,367 2014-08-23, 5:30 pm
    Thread: Japanese Article Text to Anki Deck
Post: Japanese Article Text to Anki Deck

Great tool! Don't listen to people like Toberroth who are good at nothing but taking things to extremes (as if his kanji avatar didn't say enough). Of course no one method is going to be a perfect wa...
mantixen Learning resources 38 9,507 2010-04-15, 11:45 pm
    Thread: Read The Kanji web application
Post: Read The Kanji web application

Another thing I don't quite understand about the application is that it says "Each color corresponds to a different success rate: [green] 80% ~ 100%..." Yet when I see a word/kanji for the first time...
mantixen Learning resources 64 9,482 2008-11-09, 2:44 pm
    Thread: Read The Kanji web application
Post: Read The Kanji web application

Been using the site for about an hour now, starting from the bottom (JLPT4) just to make sure I know everything, and right now my statistics are: Words Seen: 347 Successes: 1311 Failures: 17 This do...
mantixen Learning resources 64 9,482 2008-11-05, 11:52 pm
    Thread: Read The Kanji web application
Post: Read The Kanji web application

wow. I've gotta say, I've been wanting something like this ever since they introduced that excel file that functions similarly, yet doesn't (or didn't) work with OpenOffice at the time I tried it (a y...
mantixen Learning resources 64 9,482 2008-11-05, 8:55 pm
    Thread: Horror Stories of Japanese Class?
Post: Horror Stories of Japanese Class?

Samsara Wrote:However, it seems like all of the American students huddle together and chat about manga and samurais and their personal conception of Japanese culture while completely ignoring the Japa...
mantixen General discussion 221 36,135 2008-10-18, 8:58 pm
    Thread: anyone else sick of perverted stories?
Post: anyone else sick of perverted stories?

if i had a motto regarding story creation, it's "if your stories aren't being reported, they aren't memorable enough." the point is for stories to be memorable, because Remembering The Kanji is the t...
mantixen General discussion 138 45,355 2008-09-27, 3:08 pm
    Thread: Favourite Kanji
Post: Favourite Kanji

Great thread topic. There are many kanji that are just cool to look at, but among my hand's favorites are, for some reason, 高 and 我. There are more, but I can't think of them right now, and even if I ...
mantixen Remembering the Kanji 52 17,707 2008-09-27, 12:50 am
    Thread: Not knowing English keywords
Post: Not knowing English keywords

Nice topic. I'm glad I'm not alone in this. After going through RTK3, my confidence in English diminished a bit, as I was pressed not only to recall the kanji but also what the keyword meant in the fi...
mantixen Remembering the Kanji 22 4,804 2007-03-18, 6:48 pm
    Thread: OnYomi index + "on groups"
Post: OnYomi index + "on groups"

synewave Wrote:laxxy Wrote:It seems that clicking on many of these groups (especially on most of those with just 1 kanji listed) results in an "invalid data" error in Firefox... Is it a bug? Have a lo...
mantixen Remembering the Kanji 38 34,566 2007-02-28, 3:28 am
    Thread: Kanzen Master 2-Kyuu Usage List
Post: Kanzen Master 2-Kyuu Usage List

This is the first post I've actually saved to my hard disk as a separate file. Extremely useful. Thank you so much, and thank your friend for me. She seems very kind. If possible, I would be interest...
mantixen JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 12 8,774 2007-02-27, 11:10 pm
    Thread: funny compounds
Post: funny compounds

五月蝿い(うるさい) a five-month housefly would no doubt be noisy/tiresome/annoying
mantixen The Japanese language 14 5,051 2007-02-25, 6:29 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" thread
Post: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" threa...

astridtops, like you, the tree and flower primitives were probably the most difficult for me to become familiar with, in addition to the fish section. Those areas of the book involved a lot of googlin...
mantixen Remembering the Kanji 93 58,876 2007-02-15, 6:48 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" thread
Post: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" threa...

Thanks for your advice, dingomick. That's the second time I've been told that, so based on your recommendation I'm going to share all of my stories for RTK3. Hopefully it will make finishing the book ...
mantixen Remembering the Kanji 93 58,876 2007-02-14, 11:11 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" thread
Post: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" threa...

Great idea on adding the cards first to study! I also agree that the scariest part about RTK3 is before you open it. Once you see that the biggest chapter (by far) in the book is all primitives you al...
mantixen Remembering the Kanji 93 58,876 2007-02-14, 7:42 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" thread
Post: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" threa...

About two months ago I posted my intent to go for 3007 in the "I just finished RTK1" thread, and this post is just to confirm what most of us already know: this site produces miracles. The miracle for...
mantixen Remembering the Kanji 93 58,876 2007-02-13, 3:19 am
    Thread: After 1: 2 or 3 first?
Post: After 1: 2 or 3 first?

I would just go on to RTK3 while the method and stories are still fresh in your mind. RTK2 will take much more time to go through, and it will be easier like you said to group similar on-yomi together...
mantixen Remembering the Kanji 24 7,000 2007-01-04, 3:02 am
    Thread: How many kanji per day?
Post: How many kanji per day?

For those who can set moderate and consistently attainable smaller goals over a long period of time, my hat goes off to you. As for me, I set my sights too high every time I picked up this book. The d...
mantixen Remembering the Kanji 19 5,747 2006-12-19, 4:20 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Unfortunately I didn't find this site until few weeks after I finished story 2042, but in a way, I found it just in time. As many people can surely attest, it is quite lonely to study the Heisig books...
mantixen Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,426 2006-12-11, 2:47 am
    Thread: Errors in RTK
Post: Errors in RTK

is there any way to merge the errata pdf into the original RTK1 pdf and simultaneously overwrite the appropriate pages?
mantixen Remembering the Kanji 25 6,114 2006-11-25, 11:51 pm