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    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Congrats to all. I just wrapped up 6th ed today, and boy is the gloom story depressing.
jeffberhow Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,565 2014-09-25, 7:40 pm
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Trou...

Codexus Wrote:You can't review suspended cards even if you select them. You have to manually "unsuspend" them. Thank you. That did it. I tagged them all leech just in case, unsuspended them and then f...
jeffberhow Learning resources 448 98,674 2014-09-25, 3:01 am
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Trou...

I have about 30 leeches in my RTK deck and I want to relearn them in their own deck. I tried to make a filtered deck with tag:leech and is:suspended but it was saying it found no card matches. The bro...
jeffberhow Learning resources 448 98,674 2014-09-25, 1:28 am
    Thread: Almost a week in to RTK1 -- some questions
Post: Almost a week in to RTK1 -- some questions

I recommend sticking with a comfortable amount while in school (20-25/day) and then go ham during break (50+/day; stopping new cards to bring down reviews every so often). You'd realize it if you wer...
jeffberhow Remembering the Kanji 6 2,006 2014-09-20, 2:47 pm
    Thread: How do you go about learning 50+ kanji a day?
Post: How do you go about learning 50+ kanji a day?

Did 40 a day until about 1600 and then the reviews were getting massive, so I focused on just review. Now I'm rushing through 100 a day to finish off. I spread them out through the day, and retention ...
jeffberhow Remembering the Kanji 25 7,964 2014-09-20, 2:31 pm
    Thread: How long did it take you to finish RtK 1?
Post: How long did it take you to finish RtK 1?

I'm on day 29 and more than half-way done (40 cards a day). I'm only using Anki and the deck where it has the top story from this site and stroke order. 95% of the time I use that story unless I feel ...
jeffberhow Remembering the Kanji 39 10,160 2014-08-02, 12:27 am
    Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology
Post: Mighty Morphin Morphology

Thanks, vosmiura! That was the ticket.
jeffberhow Learning resources 443 136,387 2014-07-29, 10:12 pm
    Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology
Post: Mighty Morphin Morphology

vosmiura Wrote:Do any of you know how to add a custom dictionary to Mecab? It would be good to be able to add a list of proper names that Mecab would otherwise mis-interpret. It seems there's a way ...
jeffberhow Learning resources 443 136,387 2014-07-29, 1:17 am
    Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology
Post: Mighty Morphin Morphology

Hello, I'm having an issue with the UnboundError that others have had without a clear solution. The UnboundError is "local variable 'tagNames' referenced before assignment" I am using the deck "Genki...
jeffberhow Learning resources 443 136,387 2014-07-29, 1:13 am
    Thread: Typical problems that can arise...
Post: Typical problems that can arise...

This is really helpful. Thank you so much for adding that. I am going to incorporate this into my study method. :)
jeffberhow Remembering the Kanji 25 6,547 2014-07-28, 1:45 am
    Thread: Typical problems that can arise...
Post: Typical problems that can arise...

Very cool, aldebrn! I'm already having fun with it! aldebrn Wrote:At some point I'll get round to colorizing kanji that you've entered in the original text, so you don't have to keep scanning and re-...
jeffberhow Remembering the Kanji 25 6,547 2014-07-26, 1:13 am
    Thread: Typical problems that can arise...
Post: Typical problems that can arise...

Sztermel, A lot of good information here, and I'm about to repeat what others have said/implied but within explicit advice. 1. Grab yourself a Japanese Book or printed Japanese story and a highlight...
jeffberhow Remembering the Kanji 25 6,547 2014-07-25, 8:01 pm
    Thread: Chinese & Japanese Simultaneously?
Post: Chinese & Japanese Simultaneously?

Whoa, cool update. Congrats on everything.
jeffberhow The Japanese language 26 8,455 2014-07-20, 1:31 am
    Thread: For those who finished Core 2k/6k/10k
Post: For those who finished Core 2k/6k/10k

jahnke, What method are you using for your vocabulary building, and what is your average rate? Also, are you using the same method as you used for English? I think the kanji will help a lot for cont...
jeffberhow Learning resources 58 14,507 2014-07-11, 11:00 pm
    Thread: For those who finished Core 2k/6k/10k
Post: For those who finished Core 2k/6k/10k

cophnia61, vosmiura: Here's a great read I came across when looking up the meaning of word family. http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/PastIssu...2hirsh.pdf This also helped me understand vosmiura's sta...
jeffberhow Learning resources 58 14,507 2014-07-11, 5:07 pm
    Thread: For those who finished Core 2k/6k/10k
Post: For those who finished Core 2k/6k/10k

MaxHayden Wrote:One thing I was thinking of playing with was using an m-estimator instead of "average" or "maximum" to estimate sentence difficulty b/c this would be immune to those rare outlier words...
jeffberhow Learning resources 58 14,507 2014-07-11, 12:51 pm
    Thread: For those who finished Core 2k/6k/10k
Post: For those who finished Core 2k/6k/10k

cophnia61, I'm not sure if you'd be interested in this as well, but I organized your list by the rank Matsushita gave each morpheme (lexeme?) in terms of frequency. (With rank) http://pastebin.com/...
jeffberhow Learning resources 58 14,507 2014-07-11, 12:51 am
    Thread: For those who finished Core 2k/6k/10k
Post: For those who finished Core 2k/6k/10k

vosmiura Wrote:Trouble is a lot is missing because of irregular writing, e.g. Death Note uses 取調べる and the SUW list uses 取り調べる, so 取調べる counts as missing :(. As this is a common aspect of the Japanese...
jeffberhow Learning resources 58 14,507 2014-07-09, 6:03 pm
    Thread: For those who finished Core 2k/6k/10k
Post: For those who finished Core 2k/6k/10k

Thanks for all your work, MaxHayden.
jeffberhow Learning resources 58 14,507 2014-07-07, 7:07 pm