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    Thread: Am I the only one who thinks japanese has a brutal ammount of vocab.?
Post: Am I the only one who thinks japanese has a brutal...

I think, in this point English and Japanese are very similar. The paper in the link above states that there's a Latin equivalent for every native English word (help-aid, bodily-corporeal). In Japanese...
aodeur The Japanese language 104 20,369 2011-06-07, 10:04 am
    Thread: Why do stories which are not stories get high scores?
Post: Why do stories which are not stories get high scor...

For me, the extraordinary about Heisigs Method is a. to give a distinct name to every "primitive", i.e. every graphical unit that occurs more than once or twice in the Kanji world. b. the order in whi...
aodeur Remembering the Kanji 33 8,932 2011-06-06, 10:33 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Tadaaa! I wrote my last flash card yesterday, and i just entered the last stories to this site. Which means that i pretty much stuck on my plan to do the whole thing in three months. March 1 to June 1...
aodeur Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,739 2011-06-01, 10:26 am
    Thread: Making your own Japanese Nickname
Post: Making your own Japanese Nickname

OK, my name is Leo and in Katakana i'd write it "レイオウ". I know it's not common to write 外人-Names with Kanji, but i really wanted to find something nice. And as I'm a musician living in Austria, i came...
aodeur The Japanese language 26 4,660 2011-05-21, 2:43 am
    Thread: Essential Needs
Post: Essential Needs

jettyke Wrote:Well I don't think that in 'any' situation. For example, if you saw your best friends (who hadn't even done anything which would justify the violence being used on them) being violently...
aodeur Off topic 45 4,949 2011-05-20, 7:30 am
    Thread: Essential Needs
Post: Essential Needs

For me, happiness is a matter of attitude. Smile towards the world and the world will smile back to you. Don't ask yourself to much how to achieve bliss and bliss will come by itself. In other words: ...
aodeur Off topic 45 4,949 2011-05-20, 2:28 am
    Thread: Doing more than one thing...
Post: Doing more than one thing...

First of all, I think this is great for you, because your brain seems to be super-motivated for all the things you're doing. Maybe you could try to take more breaks, I mean real, intentional breaks w...
aodeur Off topic 5 2,178 2011-05-16, 1:14 am
    Thread: Getting a Japanese girlfriend?
Post: Getting a Japanese girlfriend?

http://www.tofugu.com/2010/06/18/top-10-...-japanese/
aodeur General discussion 94 23,743 2011-05-10, 1:17 pm
    Thread: Are all the trees really common words?
Post: Are all the trees really common words?

I may be a bit crazy but i just love discovering all those trees... I always really try to find out more about them (on Wikipedia f.e.) and to invent a story with these informations. And some of them ...
aodeur Remembering the Kanji 22 8,385 2011-05-08, 12:56 pm
    Thread: Osama bin Laden killed in Pakistan
Post: Osama bin Laden killed in Pakistan

Sorry, i can't help. Reading this thread i just /have/ to post that: http://xkcd.com/386/
aodeur Off topic 68 8,631 2011-05-05, 4:53 am
    Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!
Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!

On one hand, I'm there too now (finished lesson 39 yesterday). But on the other hand i'm starting to fail more and more at the reviews. Yesterday i had 12% wrong... Maybe i should just review some day...
aodeur Remembering the Kanji 462 138,223 2011-05-03, 1:49 am
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

Splatted Wrote:Wow! Your awfully Fast! ^^ ありがとう! I guess that's because i'm so incredibly disciplined and so superiorly motivated... 笑笑笑
aodeur General discussion 1,389 294,645 2011-04-26, 2:49 pm
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

Yesterday i reached 1370, which means i'm over 2/3 of the (RTK1) book. I started the whole thing on March 1, so please tell me that i'm awfully fast! ;-)
aodeur General discussion 1,389 294,645 2011-04-26, 5:11 am
    Thread: Japanese Adjectives Dropping the "i"
Post: Japanese Adjectives Dropping the "i"

This is something you can find in other languages, too. In german, for example, "red wine" is just one word: "Rotwein", whereas in two words it would be "roter Wein" (which means "wine that is red"). ...
aodeur The Japanese language 3 1,100 2011-04-21, 7:51 am
    Thread: Remembering 起きる、起こす、起こる?
Post: Remembering 起きる、起こす、起こる?

I made the observation (don't know if it's somehow scientifically proven) that verbs (with the same stem) on る are often intransitive, while those on す are transitive. For example: 渡る / 渡す 帰る / 返す (wr...
aodeur The Japanese language 15 5,890 2011-04-13, 12:45 am
    Thread: kanji poster
Post: kanji poster

My way of a Kanji poster is a big paper sheet (about 1m²) where i drew a 50x41 grid. It was empty at the beginning but every day, i fill in the new kanji myself. That way, it's kind of a motivation po...
aodeur Learning resources 25 23,092 2011-04-08, 12:58 pm
    Thread: RTK in German
Post: RTK in German

Was waren/sind denn bei euch denn die größten Hürden im Lauf des Buches, wann hattet ihr so eure "Einbrüche"? Ich bin ja erst ziemlich am Anfang (#680) und gehe auch bewusst nicht im Eiltempo vor, um ...
aodeur Remembering the Kanji 10 5,281 2011-03-25, 8:01 am
    Thread: Official App for "Remembering The Kanji" (iPhone, iPodTouch, iPad)
Post: Official App for "Remembering The Kanji" (iPhone, ...

Hi, does anybody know if there's any chance to see this App on other platforms (Android, WebOS)?
aodeur Learning resources 89 53,002 2011-03-25, 7:51 am
    Thread: RTK in German
Post: RTK in German

Hallo dominikum, freut mich, dass es noch andere Deutschsprachler gibt, die diese Seite benutzen. Ich habe einen Teil meiner Geschichten jetzt öffentlich gemacht, falls sie dich interessieren - allerd...
aodeur Remembering the Kanji 10 5,281 2011-03-21, 2:39 pm
    Thread: RTK in German
Post: RTK in German

Hallo da draußen, gibt es noch andere, die sich momentan durch die deutsche (Rauther-)Übersetzung des ersten Bands arbeiten? Ich bin jetzt gerade bei Lektion 21 und würde mich über Meinungs- und Gesch...
aodeur Remembering the Kanji 10 5,281 2011-03-20, 1:42 pm