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    Thread: Looking for manga with furigana
Post: Looking for manga with furigana

I looked for Vinland Saga, its first volume was one of the few manga I read in English and I thought it was great, but unfortunately I haven't found a copy. Meitantei Konan is Case Closed, right? I wa...
Glacial General discussion 24 17,705 2011-09-12, 2:29 pm
    Thread: Looking for manga with furigana
Post: Looking for manga with furigana

So I'm just beginning to read Japanese-language manga. I'm reading Death Note right now and wonderful as it is, one can only take so much Death Note. I have a couple other manga lying around, namely S...
Glacial General discussion 24 17,705 2011-09-11, 9:11 pm
    Thread: Japanese soul music?
Post: Japanese soul music?

I adore English soul music, but have been able to find little soul in Japanese. I have listened to some Toshi Kubota, and a lot of his stuff is really good, but some of it is also way too pop for my t...
Glacial General discussion 0 1,923 2011-07-06, 8:56 pm
    Thread: Literally grow your vocabulary
Post: Literally grow your vocabulary

From the abstracts, it sounds like increasing intervals are important - but the most important thing is that the intervals are increasing at all, not by the degree to which they increase. I'm not a hu...
Glacial Learning resources 19 6,602 2011-06-25, 7:55 pm
    Thread: Kanji Chains
Post: Kanji Chains

This is wonderful, exactly what I was looking for! Thanks so much, I appreciate it.
Glacial Remembering the Kanji 3 2,540 2011-06-25, 5:40 pm
    Thread: Kanji Chains
Post: Kanji Chains

I've looked through the various methods for learning the readings, and kanji chains sounds like it will work best for me. However, I'm having trouble finding a list of readings to draw from as I creat...
Glacial Remembering the Kanji 3 2,540 2011-06-25, 3:09 pm
    Thread: Readings Resource
Post: Readings Resource

Now that I have finished RTK1 (yay!) and have gotten my reps down to a manageable number, I am ready to start kanji chaining to learn the readings. However, I don't know where to find the readings. Do...
Glacial Remembering the Kanji 1 1,242 2011-06-21, 11:10 am
    Thread: Are all the trees really common words?
Post: Are all the trees really common words?

I'm nearly done RTK1 (~250 new frames), and I'm wondering if all the trees that Heisig has included are really common words, or if he is just a bit of a tree nut. Are they joyo, or his personal inclus...
Glacial Remembering the Kanji 22 8,388 2011-05-08, 10:31 am
    Thread: Readings?
Post: Readings?

There are probably at least one post like this one a week, so I apologize for asking again, but I couldn't find the information I needed with the search function. I'm nearly done RTK1, and the logic...
Glacial Remembering the Kanji 1 904 2011-04-23, 9:02 pm