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    Thread: most effective way to aquire vocab fast, Hiragana VS Kanji
Post: most effective way to aquire vocab fast, Hiragana ...

Well for me personally I can say that I never learned more than the first 200 Kanji from RTK. Besides these 200 I never actually learned Kanji but I don't see a big disadvantage other than sometimes m...
He4rtl3ss The Japanese language 22 4,285 2015-05-05, 12:31 pm
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

I recently started watching Anime with Japanese subs and dropped the subs for a few slice of life shows completely. And I'm really surprised of how much I am able to understand. I only noticed that my...
He4rtl3ss General discussion 1,389 294,585 2015-04-28, 9:05 am
    Thread: Vocabulary Mining from Manga with Anki?
Post: Vocabulary Mining from Manga with Anki?

I'm also doing the same thing right now and it helps a lot. But if your Japanese isn't high enough (what I assume is the case) it can get really frustrating. 2 pages is like nothing. I would recommend...
He4rtl3ss The Japanese language 13 3,129 2015-01-23, 2:12 pm
    Thread: Visual Novel lenght
Post: Visual Novel lenght

Thank you vix86. You helped me out a lot. Good to know that the length is for every route and every ending. Too bad that many VNs from Key are so long. I guess I have to read them some time later. Th...
He4rtl3ss Learning resources 5 1,640 2015-01-04, 9:34 am
    Thread: Visual Novel lenght
Post: Visual Novel lenght

Hello, so after a long break and inconsistency from learning Japanese I'm back again. I want to start reading my first Visual Novel with the help oh Visual Novel Reader (you will love this if you want...
He4rtl3ss Learning resources 5 1,640 2015-01-01, 8:34 pm
    Thread: Using native materials to really advance your language ability?
Post: Using native materials to really advance your lang...

Well, all someone have (should) to do is to learn basic grammar and a little bit beyond that. As long as the person have a foundation to build on he will learn all the other grammar points and nuance ...
He4rtl3ss Off topic 25 4,079 2014-09-05, 3:35 pm
    Thread: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text
Post: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text

A big thank you to Kurotowa who helped me out and sent me the required file. Now I can finally use Kanjitomo in my native language. Really thank you!
He4rtl3ss Learning resources 139 56,491 2014-09-02, 2:46 pm
    Thread: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text
Post: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text

Thank you for the answer Kurotawa. I downloaded the edict2 dictionary file (http://www.wadoku.de/wiki/display/WAD/Do...+und+Links) and replaced the english one. When I open it, everything works fine ...
He4rtl3ss Learning resources 139 56,491 2014-09-02, 12:35 pm
    Thread: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text
Post: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text

Is there a way to change the dictionary? Because I would like to use a dictionary in my native language.
He4rtl3ss Learning resources 139 56,491 2014-09-02, 11:28 am
    Thread: Question on learning kanji readings
Post: Question on learning kanji readings

Learning most of the on/kun yomi readings would make learning new vocabulary pretty simple. But the main advantage would be that you would be able to read most of the names and city names etc. after s...
He4rtl3ss The Japanese language 19 4,837 2014-07-22, 4:50 am
    Thread: I'm already stuck with Clannad
Post: I'm already stuck with Clannad

cophnia61 Wrote:I know ._. I'll try to not overanalize everything in future! I've chosen Clannad because I was thinking those sort of anime are simpler than things like sci-fi, thriller etc.. In fact ...
He4rtl3ss The Japanese language 23 4,190 2014-07-21, 12:33 pm
    Thread: Clannad
Post: Clannad

Well I don't know about Clannad, but I started watching Pokemon X/Y when I only did Genki 1 & 2. And all I can say is that there weren't any problems with unknown grammar. The problem's are rathe...
He4rtl3ss Learning resources 2 1,350 2014-07-18, 3:19 pm
    Thread: Review single word or whole sentence?
Post: Review single word or whole sentence?

I only review single words. Reviewing a whole sentence would take up so much more time which you could spend in reading some real things in Japanese.
He4rtl3ss Learning resources 9 2,078 2014-07-16, 1:58 am
    Thread: How long did/are you study Japanese a day?
Post: How long did/are you study Japanese a day?

I usually do my review's and learn ~25 new cards a day which takes up like 1 hour. As for grammar I don't like to study it, so I'm not doing it every day, but when I do it's like 1 hour. And then I w...
He4rtl3ss General discussion 52 13,146 2014-07-15, 8:40 am
    Thread: Reading question
Post: Reading question

Thank you for your advices. I think I'll go through some more grammar books and hope that it will help me.
He4rtl3ss The Japanese language 8 1,425 2014-07-12, 6:36 am
    Thread: Reading question
Post: Reading question

Hello, I started reading things that interest me in japanese ~2 weeks ago. (mostly news articles and some other things) I noticed how my reading speed increased extremely. But I have a problem. So...
He4rtl3ss The Japanese language 8 1,425 2014-07-08, 8:18 am
    Thread: News sites to read that are interesting and informative
Post: News sites to read that are interesting and inform...

Because I don't want to create another thread with the same topic, does someone maybe sknow a news website for Phone related stuff (something like PhoneArena) and a news site for games? And maybe a ne...
He4rtl3ss Learning resources 8 1,417 2014-06-27, 7:51 am
    Thread: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday
Post: Learning 500 new vocabularies everyday

In order to get good at Japanese you don't 'have to learn 500 words a day'. And belive it or not, if you would know the grammar perfectly and many basic words, you could learn some words without learn...
He4rtl3ss Learning resources 81 10,445 2014-06-27, 4:56 am
    Thread: YouTube channel's
Post: YouTube channel's

Hey, so right now I want to boost my listening through Podcasts and Japanese Video's. Because of that I wanted to ask if someone know an Japanese YouTuber who offers Japanese subs in his videos? I ho...
He4rtl3ss Learning resources 1 503 2014-06-16, 3:51 pm
    Thread: Will this be enough?
Post: Will this be enough?

Hello, my goal is to get good at reading. But I still am an beginner so I need your advice. At the moment I'm reading 1-3 articles from NHK News Easy and of there are sentences or grammar points which...
He4rtl3ss The Japanese language 3 1,000 2014-05-01, 8:05 am
    Thread: Popular japanese books translated in foreign language for study?
Post: Popular japanese books translated in foreign langu...

Unfortunately there isn't any free version on the magazine. But it is pretty cheap. It costs lower then 500¥ on Amazon. And the virtual version costs 4,49€ on the app store. Edit: Since your're an be...
He4rtl3ss Learning resources 20 3,764 2014-04-30, 10:35 am
    Thread: Popular japanese books translated in foreign language for study?
Post: Popular japanese books translated in foreign langu...

I don't know about the authors but you should also check 'Hiragana Times'. It's an magazine (don't know the topic, since I just found it) where an text is divided into smaller parts, beginning with En...
He4rtl3ss Learning resources 20 3,764 2014-04-29, 4:21 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Thanks yudantaiteki. I think "Isn't this a high school student ID?" would be correct in this situation because the respond was something like "That's what I'm saying all the time you.." Thanks.
He4rtl3ss The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,326 2014-04-22, 8:12 pm
    Thread: Level of NHK News Easy articles
Post: Level of NHK News Easy articles

Hi, when you would measure the level of NHK News Easy articles to the JLPT level, what kind of level would it be? (From the easier ones to the harder) I think that it is something like N3 to halfway o...
He4rtl3ss Learning resources 11 2,851 2014-04-22, 8:08 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Can someone please translate this? It's from an anime. それ本当に高校の学生しょうじゃないですか。 The anime translation is 'That really is a high school student ID' But I think that the translation lost something and so...
He4rtl3ss The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,326 2014-04-21, 1:49 pm
    Thread: Technique for Listening Practice with native material?
Post: Technique for Listening Practice with native mater...

I don't know if it helps, but right now I'm watching an anime with bad german subs. And all the time I hear that something is wrong with the subs I switch to the more correct english subs to check mys...
He4rtl3ss The Japanese language 13 3,249 2014-04-14, 3:59 pm
    Thread: Problem with the meaning of words
Post: Problem with the meaning of words

Hey, these days learning the reading of an vocabulary is very fast. I think that I only spend like 30 minutes for my 30 new words a day to learn the reading. (I think that it gets easier the more voca...
He4rtl3ss The Japanese language 3 824 2014-04-05, 8:23 am
    Thread: Learning grammar
Post: Learning grammar

Thanks, I'll try it this way with the next chapters and hope it will work better. I also never took notes or something, I think I should start to.
He4rtl3ss The Japanese language 11 3,015 2014-03-19, 11:35 am
    Thread: Learning grammar
Post: Learning grammar

Hey, I'm doing at the moment Genki 2 and am in chapter 19 I think. But the problem is, that every time I start an new chapter and start reading the text I feel like it is super hard. I don't know, but...
He4rtl3ss The Japanese language 11 3,015 2014-03-18, 10:35 am
    Thread: Japanese video game scripts
Post: Japanese video game scripts

Thank you very much tekcop for the useful link. Especially the Final Fantasy scripts are very useful. They should keep me busy for quite some time. Thanks.
He4rtl3ss Learning resources 7 2,192 2014-03-17, 2:04 pm