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    Thread: 日本語の森 "rtklike" new kanji class
Post: RE: 日本語の森 "rtklike" new kanji class

(2016-06-11, 12:57 pm)RawrPk Wrote: Awesome find! would you recommend someone doing this after RTK? Or is it redundant? I did the RTK (finished adding new card a year ago roughly, still doing from ...
nightbreak Learning resources 2 392 2016-06-11, 2:16 pm
    Thread: 日本語の森 "rtklike" new kanji class
Post: 日本語の森 "rtklike" new kanji class

Hi there ! You probably know about nihongonomori, a free japanese teaching web site/you tube channel. http://nihongonomori.com/ Yesterday, they started a kanji class and it looks like the method th...
nightbreak Learning resources 2 392 2016-06-11, 10:45 am
    Thread: My Assimil method
Post: RE: My Assimil method

I used assimil as my first text book and loved it. However, I would recommand _not_ to practise writing before the book teach how to write kana (in my edition, this is start at lesson 57) , in order ...
nightbreak The Japanese language 2 350 2016-06-10, 3:54 pm
    Thread: how to write kanji
Post: RE: how to write kanji

(2016-06-09, 6:34 pm)RawrPk Wrote: Was it these strokes? [Image: http://www.japanvisitor.com/images/conte..._happo.jpg] Read more: Shodo strokes From what I can see, this is for Japanese calligrap...
nightbreak Learning resources 15 824 2016-06-10, 1:38 am
    Thread: how to write kanji
Post: RE: how to write kanji

(2016-06-09, 6:59 am)debrucey Wrote: I like to practice calligraphy with a Buddha Board https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0010TE...ref=plSrch This looks so cool ! I was planning to try to buy a ...
nightbreak Learning resources 15 824 2016-06-09, 7:32 am
    Thread: News Web Easy - difficult language version?
Post: RE: News Web Easy - difficult language version?

I guess this is only for the last articles they posted before the holidays. Those are not articles that came from the "real" web site, so there s no link to the original non exisitng article.
nightbreak The Japanese language 4 773 2016-05-04, 3:14 am
    Thread: Help with production
Post: RE: Help with production

I use assimil to get a first contact with the language. I read one lesson a day, and listen to the audio mp3 of the lessons i already know in loop when i m at home (i work from home, so i spend a lot ...
nightbreak General discussion 9 965 2016-04-07, 8:01 am
    Thread: Help with production
Post: RE: Help with production

I used assimil as my first text book for several languages. I really like the way they teach languages, but i always found the active phase to be too difficult/early and skipped it all the times... F...
nightbreak General discussion 9 965 2016-04-07, 6:59 am
    Thread: Some doubts regarding RTK1
Post: RE: Some doubts regarding RTK1

For me, rtk is a way to be familiar with a given set of kanji. The effective goal is to be able to write a character given an english keyword, but my real long term goal is to be able to read, i actua...
nightbreak Remembering the Kanji 15 1,262 2016-04-02, 10:41 am
    Thread: how long did you continue daily review after finishing rtk ?
Post: how long did you continue daily review after finis...

Hi there ! I was wondering for how long people who finished rtk (1 or 3) continued to do daily review, and how much daily time does it take. I started rtk1 on september 2014 and reached the sign of t...
nightbreak General discussion 16 1,649 2016-03-16, 4:05 am
    Thread: RTK forgetting mature cards
Post: RE: RTK forgetting mature cards

john555, in anki, a mature card is a card that has an interval of 21 days or greater: http://ankisrs.net/docs/manual.html Dudeist, i would not worry if i were you, 21 day is nothing as far as "long ...
nightbreak Remembering the Kanji 16 1,658 2016-01-20, 7:56 am
    Thread: RTK forgetting mature cards
Post: RE: RTK forgetting mature cards

Lucky you.. I have "finished" rtk1 roughly one year ago and i still have a 30% mature card wrongs.
nightbreak Remembering the Kanji 16 1,658 2016-01-20, 3:47 am
    Thread: Good sites for free constant streaming Japanese?
Post: RE: Good sites for free constant streaming Japanes...

tunein.com has several japanese radio stream. This one has several talks show: http://tunein.com/radio/FM-PiPi-763-s8011/
nightbreak Learning resources 10 2,091 2015-12-28, 5:26 am
    Thread: Assimil Volume 1 (Anki)
Post: RE: Assimil Volume 1 (Anki)

i have a deck on my desktop that seems to match. If i follow the "shared deck page" i end up on an invalid link: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/4185350579 I can export it to .apkg file though. Uns...
nightbreak Learning resources 8 3,572 2015-12-16, 1:38 pm
    Thread: Need help with new Linux / Ubuntu VM
Post: Need help with new Linux / Ubuntu VM

You will only need 1 smtp (fakesmtp, sendmail, postfix, exim, qmail, whatever). Avoid sendmail at all cost as it is famous for being the less "user friendly" of them all (m4 macro and the dreaded send...
nightbreak Off topic 11 1,392 2015-09-08, 3:41 am
    Thread: Best Japanese dramas for learning
Post: Best Japanese dramas for learning

Some i use: * [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iSSBVEFwDc] "hard subtitles" japanese and chinese. * 孤独のグルメ If you like food. You can find japanese subtitles for season 2 easily. If any has j...
nightbreak Learning resources 5 1,852 2015-07-07, 2:36 am
    Thread: Almost beginning with learning
Post: Almost beginning with learning

Bear in mind that learning kanji the heisig way has almost nothing to do with learning japanese. What you learn is to associate an english keyword to a way of drawing a picture, that's about it. It j...
nightbreak Remembering the Kanji 63 9,392 2015-06-26, 6:29 am
    Thread: Cape/Promontory
Post: Cape/Promontory

I guess you are looking for this 塚 http://kanji.koohii.com/study/kanji/%E5%A1%9A
nightbreak Remembering the Kanji 6 1,306 2015-06-02, 2:26 am
    Thread: youtube video with japanese subtitles
Post: youtube video with japanese subtitles

Hi there ! I'm looking for video with japanese subtitles. The idea is to learn to associate kanji with words and sounds by looking at video show, if possible simple. I found some subtitles for 孤独のグル...
nightbreak Learning resources 0 624 2015-03-31, 4:58 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Youhou ! Started 1st of september. Just hit 2200 and no more unseen card in anki after nearly 6 monthes. That was long, and time consuming (and i bet i ll still have a daily one hour review for some ...
nightbreak Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,346 2015-02-20, 10:34 am
    Thread: Getting started in speaking
Post: Getting started in speaking

same situation here... I do not know how to get better at listening beside listening more, and more and more.. So, radio, tv (niji tv is awesome for that) most of the time. For generating sentence, ...
nightbreak General discussion 8 2,186 2015-01-21, 9:56 am
    Thread: Got 500+Kanji! ...but now I have to slow the pace. =( Suggestions?
Post: Got 500+Kanji! ...but now I have to slow the pace....

My feeling is, while you are in japan, take the opportunity to listen to live spoken japanese, and interact as much as you can with people. You can do the boring heisig stuff when you are back :-) I...
nightbreak Remembering the Kanji 6 2,021 2015-01-08, 7:57 am
    Thread: I'm tired of Niji TV
Post: I'm tired of Niji TV

Oniichan Wrote:I have Niji setup in xubuntu, but all I get is audio. Has anyone had this problem before? Try to set LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE environemnt variable to 1 in the environment wine runs: LIBGL...
nightbreak Learning resources 18 9,399 2015-01-07, 3:43 pm
    Thread: I'm tired of Niji TV
Post: I'm tired of Niji TV

I had an "upgrade" thingy today too... I clicked on upgrade, waited a bit, it was showing some downloads (among them several ppp* files so may be the latest update have at least the right (read workin...
nightbreak Learning resources 18 9,399 2015-01-05, 1:36 pm
    Thread: program that stream live TV?
Post: program that stream live TV?

I m not able to watch any program on nijitv since a couple of day. Is it just me or is it broken ?
nightbreak General discussion 278 155,898 2014-12-28, 5:09 am
    Thread: program that stream live TV?
Post: program that stream live TV?

Clockwise Wrote:It is very important to kill any remaining PPP processes in case Niji gets stuck or stops working. That was the problem: remaining PPP process running. I have japanese live stream now...
nightbreak General discussion 278 155,898 2014-12-22, 2:01 am
    Thread: program that stream live TV?
Post: program that stream live TV?

Hey thanks Clockwise (ou devrais je dire merci ? :-) ) those were usefull tips. I have the same distribution and architecture, so it should work (there s one difference though: it s not a fresh insta...
nightbreak General discussion 278 155,898 2014-12-21, 4:22 pm
    Thread: program that stream live TV?
Post: program that stream live TV?

Has anyone suceed in using NIJI with wine under linux ? The software starts, but login always fail with the following error message:"uuid失効しました" I can log in with the credential on the web site (http:...
nightbreak General discussion 278 155,898 2014-12-21, 8:03 am
    Thread: anki deck "Heisigs RTK 6th Edition" sort order not matching book
Post: anki deck "Heisigs RTK 6th Edition" sort order not...

Hello. Since september 2014, i am using "Heisigs RTK 6th Edition [Stories, Stroke Diagrams, Readings]" anki deck. It looks like the original deck is not available anymore on the anki web site (https...
nightbreak Learning resources 0 1,451 2014-12-06, 6:24 am
    Thread: accelerate learning curve
Post: accelerate learning curve

Hello. Dont rush, lest you feel overwhelmed by the amount of review later on. As long as you can keep the pace, that s fine, but if it start eating too much time, focus more on reviewing, and less on...
nightbreak General discussion 17 4,694 2014-11-30, 11:56 am