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    Thread: Finding "Remembering Hanzi" in China
Post: Finding "Remembering Hanzi" in China

Anyone here manage to find RTK2? I have been looking around but Chinese learning materials is few and thin on the ground and mostly in German. Does RTK2 exist in China, have you seen it?
eggcluck Chinese and Hanzi 2 2,281 2012-08-10, 8:25 am
    Thread: do you consider SRS a secret?
Post: do you consider SRS a secret?

I never keep Anki a secret, and quite blantantly use it wher I work for all to see (and hear) I used to be self concious about balring out simple Chinese in a Chinese office but I care little about th...
eggcluck Learning resources 79 14,604 2012-08-10, 8:19 am
    Thread: Writing While Reviewing
Post: Writing While Reviewing

I never used to wrtie my reviews I though I was doign pretty good with my SRS ( sometimes I used the finger trace thing, I count that as non writing) Then one day I decided to write them out...my % d...
eggcluck Remembering the Kanji 28 7,101 2012-02-07, 9:06 am
    Thread: Learning at a slow pace?
Post: Learning at a slow pace?

I am going to chip in and say just going for the top rated story is not the best of ideas in my opinion. Many of the top rated stories are there by viture of being the oldest. I stopped and read down ...
eggcluck Remembering the Kanji 9 3,157 2012-02-02, 8:00 am
    Thread: Which font is more correct?
Post: Which font is more correct?

I use DFKai-SB I wanted something that is as close to more hadn based writing as possible without taking the hadn writing short cuts. Most printed forms join together lines where if you study the str...
eggcluck Learning resources 8 2,231 2012-01-31, 3:07 am
    Thread: Internet Goes On Strike
Post: Internet Goes On Strike

The chinese goverment in invovled in everything. In a nearby city a foreign langauge book shop was ordered to stop selling books because they are going to build a "book city" in a area within this cit...
eggcluck Off topic 176 19,770 2012-01-28, 7:05 am
    Thread: How to speak Mandarin
Post: How to speak Mandarin

Personally I have found decks to be not so good for outright learning of vocab. I toiled for a year with one such deck for Japanese and still had rather lack luster comprehension. Now with Chinese I ...
eggcluck Chinese and Hanzi 8 3,762 2012-01-28, 5:47 am
    Thread: When do you fail a card?
Post: When do you fail a card?

I took the recognition only route, I would right them out and it had to match the the answer or a failed it. At first I tried going with the book reccommend route of just trying to do recog in the he...
eggcluck Remembering the Kanji 18 3,414 2012-01-13, 1:23 am
    Thread: What do you look for in a partner
Post: What do you look for in a partner

Being 27 and never having been on a date, I would settle for the first person to show any in me interest at all, ...as long I do not find them totally repulsive. I think that situation would be worse ...
eggcluck Off topic 40 6,336 2012-01-12, 10:03 pm
    Thread: 2011 Reflections and 2012 Resolutions
Post: 2011 Reflections and 2012 Resolutions

2011 No goals other than to find a language to study that I like - DONE! - settled on having German, Pali, Japanese, Hebrew, Hindi, Chinese and Latin as "one day" targets after looking at them and :-...
eggcluck General discussion 93 19,346 2011-12-14, 12:53 am
    Thread: To those studying Chinese here
Post: To those studying Chinese here

I respect you opinion but why do you think that way? While the red tape is annoying, my experience has been far from terrible so far. If I can get through the culture shock I think I will quite like ...
eggcluck Off topic 18 2,989 2011-11-29, 7:46 pm
    Thread: To those studying Chinese here
Post: To those studying Chinese here

I had dim sum. N.B Though I fail to see why oatmeal would be a second choice to eggs, would not something like Bacon or sausage be more likely? consdering the nature of egg.
eggcluck Off topic 18 2,989 2011-11-29, 6:58 am
    Thread: To those studying Chinese here
Post: To those studying Chinese here

Curiosity is just as good as reason as any. If you do not like the question you need not answer. Would you prefer another whiny how do I get to x....my country is the pits...its my dream .... type t...
eggcluck Off topic 18 2,989 2011-11-29, 6:41 am
    Thread: To those studying Chinese here
Post: To those studying Chinese here

Just a question of curiosity really.
eggcluck Off topic 18 2,989 2011-11-28, 8:56 pm
    Thread: To those studying Chinese here
Post: To those studying Chinese here

Just a question of curiosity really. Are any of you actually living/working in China?
eggcluck Off topic 18 2,989 2011-11-28, 6:47 pm
    Thread: 尻取り forum game!
Post: 尻取り forum game!

eggcluck Off topic 203 24,659 2011-11-05, 4:51 am
    Thread: The Best option for my situation
Post: The Best option for my situation

howtwosavealif3 Wrote:I just wanted to say i hate the typo bare. BEAR! and the other thing is.... i don't undersatnd why school is taking up so much time... you're freshmen right? or are you in like ...
eggcluck General discussion 38 7,354 2011-10-30, 12:16 pm
    Thread: The Best option for my situation
Post: The Best option for my situation

The above is correct, In a a British university, there is only one thing and that is the Bsc or BA of whatever it is you want to specialise in. For most degrees you study and take modules that you are...
eggcluck General discussion 38 7,354 2011-10-29, 10:09 am
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

Finshed Core 2000 a few days ago and re read Yotsuba vol 1 and only 2 or 3 words were unknown. Still unemployed though :( after 200 apps even internac/shane won't give me an interview :( More interes...
eggcluck General discussion 1,389 294,564 2011-10-27, 5:57 am
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

While I am not familiar with that particular core deck, I did down load different one that had a seperate deck for each step of the core. They also came with the sound and pictures no additional downl...
eggcluck The Japanese language 712 401,415 2011-10-23, 3:25 am
    Thread: Heart English School
Post: Heart English School

Thanks you the input guys as always! I simply googled for those schools with good reputations adn got this :- http://www.how-to-teach-english-in-japan...japan.html While not all of them want experi...
eggcluck JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 7 6,415 2011-05-11, 11:08 am
    Thread: Heart English School
Post: Heart English School

http://www.heart-school.jp/en/index.html I have a phone interview with the above people and was wondering if anyone has any experences with them? All I could find on the next was a bad forum post fro...
eggcluck JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 7 6,415 2011-05-11, 6:49 am
    Thread: future degree and higher studies... unsure
Post: future degree and higher studies... unsure

If it helps your decision, I graduated with a degree during 2006, since then I have been in employment for only two years....as a cleaner. I would have been better off just leaving school at the min...
eggcluck Off topic 69 9,005 2011-05-03, 1:05 am
    Thread: Reprint, 6th edition
Post: Reprint, 6th edition

There are some out there who used the first edition, I heard they did pretty well from it.
eggcluck Remembering the Kanji 4 1,451 2011-05-02, 5:11 pm
    Thread: 3 Word Cards.
Post: 3 Word Cards.

According to the supermemo. SRS works best when things are kept as small and as simple as possible. After some personal experience playing around with varying level of detail in cards including non la...
eggcluck The Japanese language 14 1,876 2011-02-26, 4:39 pm
    Thread: lang-8 contacts and skype
Post: lang-8 contacts and skype

It's been awkard for a while several "emergency" maintaince take downs later they go down for a three hour maintainence that has grew to six hours, wonder what is going on.
eggcluck General discussion 17 5,802 2011-02-25, 9:05 am
    Thread: I might stop SRSing...
Post: I might stop SRSing...

@ OP You vocab deck like others said looks boring. I only used vocab type cards for nouns but here is what one of mine looks like http://img14.imageshack.us/i/vocabcard.png/ Much better!
eggcluck General discussion 75 12,592 2011-02-23, 6:28 pm
    Thread: Symbols in dictionaries
Post: Symbols in dictionaries

Thanks people, I was trying sanseido, but I will try those others mentioned instead.
eggcluck Learning resources 4 758 2011-02-08, 7:07 am
    Thread: Symbols in dictionaries
Post: Symbols in dictionaries

I have been trying out monolingual dictionaries however I keep stumbling upon various symbols I know nothing about, I tried looking for a guide on how to read them even on the dictionary websites them...
eggcluck Learning resources 4 758 2011-02-07, 6:09 pm
    Thread: Order Your $40 PS3 Yet?
Post: Order Your $40 PS3 Yet?

Can't speak for the USA however in the UK whether it was a mistake or not it it was advertised as a PS3 then by law they have to give you a PS3. Argos found that out when it listed TV's for 50p a few ...
eggcluck Off topic 7 1,957 2011-01-17, 4:20 am