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    Thread: Buying a road bike in Japan
Post: Buying a road bike in Japan

Road cyclist here. First of all, your speed comes from your legs. The difference in speed from a $500 road bike to a $5000 one isn't noticeable (it might be 0.2 mph faster, it might not). Wha...
Lightning Off topic 26 8,982 2012-08-29, 1:30 pm
    Thread: Finished RTK 1 in 15 days
Post: Finished RTK 1 in 15 days

Congratulations! squarezebra Wrote:You're missing my point. I'm calling shenanigans on this guys cliam to bragging rights for having finished RTK. No he hasn't... he's just begun! (begun incredibly s...
Lightning Remembering the Kanji 54 22,795 2012-08-01, 8:27 am
    Thread: A question about the number of review cards, study cards and new cards
Post: A question about the number of review cards, study...

I did RTK adding 100/day so I had tons of reviews as you can imagine. What I did to prevent burn out was: When you wake up, as soon as you go to the computer to do your usual stuff (check e-mail, etc...
Lightning Remembering the Kanji 6 1,657 2010-09-03, 4:10 pm
    Thread: Moving to Osaka in 5 days - Last thoughts...
Post: Moving to Osaka in 5 days - Last thoughts...

I've never been to Japan and I've still got a long way to go with Japanese so I can't really comment on the language specifically. I can, however, share my experience with other languages (which still...
Lightning General discussion 12 2,704 2010-08-30, 6:04 pm
    Thread: Relying to stories in this site.
Post: Relying to stories in this site.

It's fine as long as you like them and they stick. When you see a new kanji, read the story on the book (if any) and read some one the site. Then you can either use one of those or make your own if th...
Lightning Remembering the Kanji 10 1,963 2010-08-28, 2:19 pm
    Thread: Trophies for Anki.
Post: Trophies for Anki.

How do you use this? I can't seem to figure it out. You guys got some really nice trophies though! Cranking and wordsmith are awesome.
Lightning Learning resources 33 9,792 2010-08-02, 3:27 pm
    Thread: Learning Portuguese (Slightly Japanese Related)
Post: Learning Portuguese (Slightly Japanese Related)

efeilliaid Wrote:I want to master Portuguese at some point for many reasons ;-) It just so happens that Portuguese is officially recognized as a language in use in Macau and I was interested what its ...
Lightning General discussion 39 9,965 2010-08-02, 4:07 am
    Thread: Easy, good, hard or fail?
Post: Easy, good, hard or fail?

I always click easy if I don't have problems remembering it. If it really takes a while to come to mind, I'll click hard though. I basically add the cards and the next day I review them. Even if it ta...
Lightning Remembering the Kanji 4 1,133 2010-07-20, 6:44 am
    Thread: Question about reviewing the cards
Post: Question about reviewing the cards

Thanks for the replies. I guess I'll remove the Kanji to keyword cards then to ease my reviews. I just read lesson 11 as suggested and I don't understand why he didn't say all of that earlier too. Sh...
Lightning Remembering the Kanji 6 1,273 2010-04-05, 11:39 am
    Thread: Question about reviewing the cards
Post: Question about reviewing the cards

Hello everyone. I have been learning Japanese for a while already and I just started reading RTK now. The book is pretty good so far and when I don't like a story, this site helps a lot. When I reac...
Lightning Remembering the Kanji 6 1,273 2010-04-05, 9:46 am