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    Thread: RTK1 Corrections with Explanation [looking for]
Post: RTK1 Corrections with Explanation [looking for]

Ah, thanks everybody. So the PDF always lists the corrected content in red, not the uncorrected as I thought. The 5th has almost no errors.
robnonstop Remembering the Kanji 3 588 2015-10-15, 1:22 pm
    Thread: RTK1 Corrections with Explanation [looking for]
Post: RTK1 Corrections with Explanation [looking for]

This might be covered elsewhere or in another thread, if so, please let me know. In the PDF file RK1-cumulative-errata-pre-6th-edition.pdf, that supposedly lists all corrections for RTK1 pre 6th edit...
robnonstop Remembering the Kanji 3 588 2015-10-15, 9:43 am
    Thread: Why AJATT does not work (for my listening skills)
Post: Why AJATT does not work (for my listening skills)

mezbup Wrote:There was an experiment a long long time ago in much more primitive days I think this was a European king, French or German, who expected the children to talk Latin. Of course they didn't...
robnonstop General discussion 140 51,122 2010-11-05, 11:19 am
    Thread: Why AJATT does not work (for my listening skills)
Post: Why AJATT does not work (for my listening skills)

yudantaiteki Wrote:Spoken language is acquired by babies as long as they are exposed to it, regardless of whether the parents reward the kids, love them, or even pay any attention to them at all. Not ...
robnonstop General discussion 140 51,122 2010-11-02, 10:56 am
    Thread: Somebody punch me
Post: Somebody punch me

Get your Vitamin D levels tested. If you have a lack of Vitamin D, that might be the reason for your depression. Back in stone age, we were outside all day and got enough sun, which is required to pro...
robnonstop Off topic 55 11,197 2010-11-01, 10:50 am
    Thread: stuff ive learnt from japan
Post: stuff ive learnt from japan

IceCream Wrote:…I totally recommend watching programs at just slightly not high enough volumes, or with something else playing in the background more softly)… A somewhat famous self tought specialilst...
robnonstop General discussion 134 25,126 2010-11-01, 9:49 am
    Thread: Why AJATT does not work (for my listening skills)
Post: Why AJATT does not work (for my listening skills)

Just a quick thought: I like most of AJATT's concepts, but disagree with the claim, that children learn simply by sitting in the corner and hearing stuff. In reality, healthy and lucky babies, that b...
robnonstop General discussion 140 51,122 2010-11-01, 9:36 am
    Thread: Don't learn kanji
Post: Don't learn kanji

The out of context problem is solved as soon as you learn the actual etymological reasoning for the chosen radicals. A Kanji by itself then has a meaning like a compound and is much easier to remember...
robnonstop General discussion 65 11,214 2010-10-26, 7:18 am
    Thread: Split Ateji readings into Kanji portions
Post: Split Ateji readings into Kanji portions

So if I understand this correctly, Ateji readings and meanings are not found in the dictionary entries of the contained Kanji. Would you say it is a benefit if a digital dictionary offered them (listi...
robnonstop The Japanese language 17 5,537 2010-10-26, 6:41 am
    Thread: Split Ateji readings into Kanji portions
Post: Split Ateji readings into Kanji portions

Is it possible to split an Ateji reading, that is assigned to a compound of Kanji? For example 貴女 (anata). Can it be split into 貴(ana) and 女(ta) or into 貴(a) and 女(nata)? I'm not asking if it makes ...
robnonstop The Japanese language 17 5,537 2010-10-23, 8:17 pm
    Thread: "Recognizing" the Kanji: Even easier than "Remembering the Kanji"?
Post: "Recognizing" the Kanji: Even easier than "Rememb...

I have an iPhone app named iKanji that can test stroke order but it's a bit annoying because you can't work with a pen, even the so called "pogo stick" only has the precision of a thumb. If you're pat...
robnonstop The Japanese language 26 9,813 2010-09-27, 7:10 am
    Thread: "Recognizing" the Kanji: Even easier than "Remembering the Kanji"?
Post: "Recognizing" the Kanji: Even easier than "Rememb...

I suggest, if you already have an iPod Touch or iPhone, to use ShinKanji. I use it all the time and always have it with me. You enter a word or character and hit the play button. It shows how the Kanj...
robnonstop The Japanese language 26 9,813 2010-09-22, 11:01 pm
    Thread: "Recognizing" the Kanji: Even easier than "Remembering the Kanji"?
Post: "Recognizing" the Kanji: Even easier than "Rememb...

Just my opinion: The more senses you use and the more memories you connect with a Kanji, the better. Since you can't hear, smell or taste a Kanji without a lot of extra work (baking a Kanji etc.), I w...
robnonstop The Japanese language 26 9,813 2010-09-22, 9:52 am
    Thread: Book: The Key To Kanji by Noriko Kurosawa Williams
Post: Book: The Key To Kanji by Noriko Kurosawa Williams

I have ordered books from Amazon Japan before, no problem if you have a credit card or debit card. Your country might add taxes, for some reason items from Japan always slipped through while items fro...
robnonstop Learning resources 9 8,159 2010-09-16, 12:32 pm
    Thread: Book: The Key To Kanji by Noriko Kurosawa Williams
Post: Book: The Key To Kanji by Noriko Kurosawa Williams

Here's another interesting example. The Kanji for easy/change/fortune telling is a lizard with sun rays (easily changing its color in the sun). The book Kanji Pict-O-Graphix which features beautiful ...
robnonstop Learning resources 9 8,159 2010-09-16, 10:47 am
    Thread: Numbers for primitives (巴)
Post: Numbers for primitives (巴)

Hmm, so this is the only case where he breaks his rule of introducing a (rare) full Kanji as full Kanji + mentioning its additional meaning as a primitive? That makes two entries for the same Kanji, u...
robnonstop Remembering the Kanji 4 1,229 2010-09-09, 7:37 pm
    Thread: Numbers for primitives (巴)
Post: Numbers for primitives (巴)

Confused: The Kanji 色 (color) contains the "huge comma-design/tile" 巴 which Heisig calls "mosaic". According to Kotoban (iPhone app) the Heisig number is 2096 but my version of RTK1 (2009 edition) st...
robnonstop Remembering the Kanji 4 1,229 2010-09-09, 5:14 am
    Thread: Remembering the Kanji, the story...
Post: Remembering the Kanji, the story...

I think it would make sence to cluster related Kanji stories into bigger stories. A common method for remembering a list of items is to connnect them in a story, so up to a certain number (way below t...
robnonstop General discussion 18 6,135 2010-09-09, 4:57 am
    Thread: Book: The Key To Kanji by Noriko Kurosawa Williams
Post: Book: The Key To Kanji by Noriko Kurosawa Williams

Some of the mnemonics are from Henshall but many other sources are listed. The author, a Japanese teacher at various American universities, seems to have done a lot of research but I also think, often...
robnonstop Learning resources 9 8,159 2010-09-03, 2:27 pm
    Thread: Book: The Key To Kanji by Noriko Kurosawa Williams
Post: Book: The Key To Kanji by Noriko Kurosawa Williams

Hello, I'm new to the forum, hope this is the correct section for my post. Today I got the book "The Key To Kanji", one of many Kanji learning books that take an etymological approach. I was wonderin...
robnonstop Learning resources 9 8,159 2010-09-03, 8:41 am