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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Errol246 Wrote:The only thing that makes doing this difficult is the thought of wanting to finish NOW or very soon. You have to go through this at your own pace, not somebody else's. It takes some peo... |
warrigal | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,771 | 2013-07-28, 6:24 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... cae99v, I reckon you've just cheered a LOT of people up <g>. Congratulations! |
warrigal | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,771 | 2013-07-10, 6:59 am | ||
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Thread: Half way! Post: Half way! You can do it - stops and starts aren't failures, they just show us something about our learning style, what works, what doesn't, what we need to do to stay with it. Keep reviewing! It's interesting... |
warrigal | Remembering the Kanji | 616 | 180,502 | 2013-07-08, 2:55 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... .... and just added the sign of the snake and starred every story on that last page, because I know what everyone did to get there. Whoo hoo! It's taken 14 months, with a couple of very long pauses ... |
warrigal | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,771 | 2013-07-07, 6:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Continuing with Anki after 2 month break? Post: Continuing with Anki after 2 month break? I'm on frame 2102 and while I generally try to stay abreast of reviews, they've blown out to 600+ once or twice with the odd life-imposed hiccough. Chip away and catch up, don't get too stressed abo... |
warrigal | Remembering the Kanji | 7 | 3,482 | 2013-06-24, 8:55 pm | ||
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Thread: I study Nihongo because... Post: I study Nihongo because... ... because I have fond 30-year-old memories of Monkey Magic, especially the tunes by ゴダイゴ ガンダーラ: [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buw8E4HUdWk] (Love this clip, the interpolation of old foot... |
warrigal | Off topic | 358 | 111,178 | 2013-06-20, 8:25 pm | ||
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Thread: What age are you? Post: What age are you? Am coasting towards 50 and have shoes that are older than most people here :) .... In view of the comments re mileage vs chronology, it would be fair odds therefore that I am twice your age with half... |
warrigal | Off topic | 357 | 73,710 | 2013-06-15, 4:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Trying to get over a plateau--can you help? Post: Trying to get over a plateau--can you help? Zgarbas, I think that's one to put on your CV <g>. Having fun with big words is just a gourmet approach to language, like poetry. If you're here, it's because you enjoy language, and I bet a l... |
warrigal | General discussion | 47 | 8,218 | 2013-02-08, 3:44 pm | ||
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Thread: Trying to get over a plateau--can you help? Post: Trying to get over a plateau--can you help? As others have said, you mightn't think highly of your fluency, but you communicate clearly and that's the real test. You may be aware of gaps between what is in your head and what you are getting on... |
warrigal | General discussion | 47 | 8,218 | 2013-02-08, 3:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Trying to get over a plateau--can you help? Post: Trying to get over a plateau--can you help? mel685 Wrote:There's a lot I didn't understand though. Sometimes I was like "What the heck is happening now?". I have a high tolerance for "foreign gibberish" but I need to understand English better i... |
warrigal | General discussion | 47 | 8,218 | 2013-02-07, 5:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit? Post: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit... The point I got from the original post was simple and useful: if you find that there is an upper limit on your personal productivity for the day (in terms of intellectual/creative endeavour, and pres... |
warrigal | General discussion | 57 | 9,021 | 2013-02-07, 5:24 pm | ||
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Thread: Trying to get over a plateau--can you help? Post: Trying to get over a plateau--can you help? Yes, yes, yes to the "vocab heavy" thing (though number-of-words/morphemes-in-a-given language seems to be one of those impossible-consensus topics) <g>. And also yes to the expectations of fl... |
warrigal | General discussion | 47 | 8,218 | 2013-02-07, 3:51 pm | ||
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Thread: Trying to get over a plateau--can you help? Post: Trying to get over a plateau--can you help? Wow, OP, getting through the last three HP books is pretty impressive! Just wondering what you mean by "not understanding" basic words? A lot of native English speakers would be hard-pressed to pr... |
warrigal | General discussion | 47 | 8,218 | 2013-02-07, 3:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit? Post: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit... It'd be interesting to look at the error rate or some other measurable function versus time spent on the task. I can't cite chapter and verse but there's evidence for example that people will get mor... |
warrigal | General discussion | 57 | 9,021 | 2013-02-07, 4:27 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Addresses Post: Japanese Addresses Am confident that Curtin was very firm with MacArthur on this point. Morale, you know. You can live in a tent if you've still got your local. Anyway, back to Japanese streets ..... I'm feeling a lo... |
warrigal | General discussion | 17 | 2,776 | 2013-02-07, 2:48 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Addresses Post: Japanese Addresses One's a republic, one is a constitutional monarchy, and in our European street system, you gotta pick names - I'm guessing the USA went for Enlightenment rationality while our colonial governors looke... |
warrigal | General discussion | 17 | 2,776 | 2013-02-07, 2:25 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Addresses Post: Japanese Addresses I can see where you were coming from as well, SendaiDan - it's interesting to see what happens when people get a chance to redo things literally from the ground up. Makes us all stop and think about ... |
warrigal | General discussion | 17 | 2,776 | 2013-02-07, 1:46 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Addresses Post: Japanese Addresses erlog, I was thinking that it's much like English spelling - something rooted deep in local history which preserves evidence of growth over time as do archaeological strata, or tree rings. And like E... |
warrigal | General discussion | 17 | 2,776 | 2013-02-07, 12:52 am | ||
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Thread: Japanese Addresses Post: Japanese Addresses Guess the system just evolved, Sendai - hence buildings being numbered in the order of construction or whatever it is they have going on there. Something that's perfectly workable on a village scale,... |
warrigal | General discussion | 17 | 2,776 | 2013-02-06, 11:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Trying to get over a plateau--can you help? Post: Trying to get over a plateau--can you help? Agree re weaning antidepressant medications carefully, as about a third of people seem to have a rough time ceasing them abruptly (talk to your doctor). Harry Potter might have been written for kids,... |
warrigal | General discussion | 47 | 8,218 | 2013-02-06, 9:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit? Post: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit... Worth a go .... (Again, I think this argument gets back to the fine grain of just what is meant by "intense concentration", and whether we are talking about working at the bleeding edges of novelty/i... |
warrigal | General discussion | 57 | 9,021 | 2013-02-06, 7:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit? Post: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit... Chamcham, I could not agree more. The trap is in over-generalizing from our own experience, valuable as it is. The key is in using the SRS process to arrest the decay process - the real issue with b... |
warrigal | General discussion | 57 | 9,021 | 2013-02-06, 4:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit? Post: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit... Apropos of the speed-kanji argument, I think it was sprinter Zlarg who pointed out that the only reason that the kanji-in-two-weeks process was sustainable was that there is a very fixed and relativel... |
warrigal | General discussion | 57 | 9,021 | 2013-02-06, 4:24 pm | ||
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Thread: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit? Post: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit... I was just thinking that, Corry. Much like sleep itself, which moves through stages and which is most restorative when certain criteria are met? It may be that some learners more naturally move th... |
warrigal | General discussion | 57 | 9,021 | 2013-02-06, 4:09 pm | ||
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Thread: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit? Post: Four hours of concentration/day is the human limit... The central issue here is the words "intense concentration", which may mean different things to different people. I can spend four hours with my children and feel exhausted, but an observing behavi... |
warrigal | General discussion | 57 | 9,021 | 2013-02-06, 3:40 pm | ||
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Thread: Too much diversity? Post: Too much diversity? It gets back to what works for the individual. Sometimes an immediate association suggests itself that's particularly vivid for the user, and sometimes people rename primitives a little further into ... |
warrigal | Remembering the Kanji | 10 | 2,273 | 2013-01-23, 3:43 pm | ||
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Thread: The "Valid/Invalid Reasons for Learning Japanese" phenomena Post: The "Valid/Invalid Reasons for Learning Japanese" ... Silja Wrote:I've done it vice versa: I started as "high culture" (I got interested in Japanese art and especially calligraphy in art history class), but have moved to "low culture" (trying to find int... |
warrigal | Off topic | 61 | 15,314 | 2013-01-19, 5:05 am | ||
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Thread: 6th Edition Frame Number Converter (closed) Post: 6th Edition Frame Number Converter (closed) gomtuu, I'm using the 6th edition and this converter has been terrific. Thank you so much for putting this together and making it available. |
warrigal | Remembering the Kanji | 27 | 22,331 | 2013-01-18, 12:56 am | ||
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Thread: Are the stories really worth it? Post: Are the stories really worth it? When I started doing RTK, I didn't bother with the stories for the first few hundred. Encouraged by ancient memories of the numbers and a few of the others from way back in the day when I did five mi... |
warrigal | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 3,611 | 2013-01-14, 8:36 pm | ||
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Thread: The Encouragement Thread Post: The Encouragement Thread Sorry for posting serially, but I left the killer app moment out of the above musings, which is this: I've just come back from a short holiday in Japan, and while simple orthographic familiarity with... |
warrigal | Remembering the Kanji | 908 | 186,160 | 2013-01-11, 2:31 am | ||
