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    Thread: use of the memory palace technique
Post: use of the memory palace technique

Javizy Wrote:Are you using SRS? . I guess I am confused. What is the difference between SRS and what I am doing now with the bar graphs on this page (koohii.com)? I thought the review system on the Ko...
Texie Remembering the Kanji 10 8,037 2011-06-02, 2:58 am
    Thread: use of the memory palace technique
Post: use of the memory palace technique

Javizy Wrote:Are you using SRS? . I guess I am confused. What is the difference between SRS and what I am doing now with the bar graphs on this page (koohii.com)? I thought the review system on the Ko...
Texie Remembering the Kanji 10 8,037 2011-06-02, 2:57 am
    Thread: use of the memory palace technique
Post: use of the memory palace technique

I just finished reading "Moonwalking with Einstein", written by the journalist Joshua Foer and recent champion in the USA Memory Challenge contest. All these memory champions use similar methods for m...
Texie Remembering the Kanji 10 8,037 2011-05-26, 11:52 pm
    Thread: handwriting
Post: handwriting

I was told by my Japanese friend (nicely of course) that my Kanjis look like they were written by a third-grader. I don't want to do calligraphy with a brush: I want to just learn to write them nicely...
Texie Learning resources 8 2,574 2011-03-18, 2:21 am
    Thread: biang biang noodles
Post: biang biang noodles

I work in a lab with lots of Chinese students. Okay, it's not Japanese, but we still have a lot of fun discussions comparing the Kanji and Hanzi. Therefore, they thought I would enjoy the word for bia...
Texie General discussion 6 3,288 2010-09-03, 12:48 am
    Thread: Brazil: Japanese in Sao Paolo
Post: Brazil: Japanese in Sao Paolo

The largest population of Japanese outside Japan are in Liberdade, Sao Paolo, Brazil. I am going there in May on business (I am a researcher in protein chemistry). As I know more Japanese than Portugu...
Texie Off topic 4 972 2009-02-13, 3:04 pm
    Thread: hotel in Kyoto
Post: hotel in Kyoto

In less than one month I will be going to Japan for a conference for my job. I'm taking my 12 year old daughter with me, who is crazy about anime and has learned to speak a lot of Japanese just from w...
Texie Off topic 6 1,405 2008-07-20, 9:16 am