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Thread: Learning German - Software/Book suggestions? Post: Learning German - Software/Book suggestions? Assimil, definitely. Basically a parallel reader with audio only in the target language. I did it for French and could read novels with a dictionary, surf the internet, and watch TV for fun in three m... |
xquio | Off topic | 1 | 935 | 2011-11-24, 10:25 pm | ||
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Thread: What's your area of study? Post: What's your area of study? Computer Information Systems. I'm a senior. Interested in databases, but not really sure what I specifically want to do. My university has a very broad program, so I've been exposed to a lot but haven... |
xquio | Off topic | 45 | 10,659 | 2011-11-23, 3:18 am | ||
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Thread: How long do you study a day? Post: How long do you study a day? I try not to spend more than 2 hours a day on RTK, including reviews. It takes me like 40 minutes to do reviews, and then around an hour to add 40 kanji. This is the third(!) time I'm doing it. I fin... |
xquio | Remembering the Kanji | 38 | 14,052 | 2011-11-20, 6:09 pm | ||
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Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! Just hit 500 for the second time. Took me eight days. I bumped up from 50 to 60 a day. Starting to get a little burned out feeling. I feel like I should probably slow down, but school starts on Aug. 2... |
xquio | Remembering the Kanji | 526 | 167,176 | 2011-08-09, 12:00 am | ||
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Thread: I study Nihongo because... Post: I study Nihongo because... I wanted to read the second Strawberry Panic light novel, but it was out of print and cost $200~ used at the time. They also weren't going to translate the third one. I heard there were a lot of c... |
xquio | Off topic | 358 | 111,177 | 2011-08-06, 2:05 am | ||
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Thread: The Encouragement Thread Post: The Encouragement Thread Whooo, I'm starting again. I actually completed RTK over a year ago, then promptly stopped reviewing and stopped studying Japanese altogether. In the interim, I studied French to an upper-intermediate... |
xquio | Remembering the Kanji | 908 | 186,159 | 2011-08-02, 6:11 pm | ||
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Thread: The AJATT Method Post: The AJATT Method >> I haven't posted here in ages, but I saw this today and am highly amused. http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/tt79/...n/lulz.png That's my quote, from the AJATT plus thread. I feel like a ce... |
xquio | General discussion | 1,517 | 595,179 | 2010-09-19, 12:54 pm | ||
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Thread: Merits of doing a textbook... Post: Merits of doing a textbook... So, I'm taking a two week break after RTK to catch up on real life, and after that I'm planning on starting some hardcore study. But my question is, would doing Minna no Nihongo before Core/KO/sentenc... |
xquio | General discussion | 35 | 6,893 | 2010-04-18, 6:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Non-Typical Anime Post: Non-Typical Anime Simoun - A steampunkish-yuri that doesn't rely on its yuri all that much. Basically, there's a theocracy on a world where everyone is born a girl and chooses a gender at age 17. Their main military de... |
xquio | General discussion | 104 | 23,897 | 2010-04-18, 1:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Computer Science / IT / programming Post: Computer Science / IT / programming Networking/security pays good, and it's something that can be easily done without a degree. Of course, certifications help a lot, but certs are fairly easy to get if you're knowledgeable about that fi... |
xquio | General discussion | 26 | 3,659 | 2010-04-18, 1:00 pm | ||
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Thread: POKEMON TOPIC (ALL THINGS POKEMON HERE) Post: POKEMON TOPIC (ALL THINGS POKEMON HERE) I spent a considerable portion of my childhood parked in front of Pokemon. I'm pretty sure Red is permanently lodged in my Gameboy Pocket, and it's sort of depressing because I could have been doing s... |
xquio | Off topic | 16 | 2,893 | 2010-04-17, 2:50 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Stick a fork in this bitch because she is dooooneee.... Yeah. End of corny comment. I'm proud of myself for actually keeping the deadline I set for myself. Of course, what I didn't do was keep the 25... |
xquio | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,767 | 2010-04-17, 2:36 am | ||
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Thread: Aiming to fail Post: Aiming to fail What works for me is putting my story in Anki on the answer side of the card, and then for new cards when I forget it I read over the story and just bury it instead of failing it. IMO, all failing new... |
xquio | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 5,041 | 2010-04-15, 6:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Can someone help me understand.... Post: Can someone help me understand.... ThomasB Wrote:Well, basically you are right, there is no disadvantage in doing RTK before anything else but something tells me it's nor right. Imagine the following scenario: Your friend asks you how... |
xquio | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 2,401 | 2010-04-14, 8:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Can someone help me understand.... Post: Can someone help me understand.... http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=1864 The actual method of doing RTK is that you basically look at the kanji, identify the primitives, read Heisig's explanation, and then come up with an im... |
xquio | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 2,401 | 2010-04-14, 3:23 pm | ||
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Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! I just hit 1540. I really, really want to finish by Friday, which means doing 170 every day. Which I can do, because I only have classes for 4 hours tomorrow and Friday, during which I do my massive-i... |
xquio | Remembering the Kanji | 462 | 138,237 | 2010-04-14, 12:10 am | ||
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Thread: The Encouragement Thread Post: The Encouragement Thread I'm at 1271 still. I've done nothing the last three days. Reviewed a little, I still have 20 failed cards(but 20 out of almost 300) I don't feel like looking at. I just want to be done with RTK alread... |
xquio | Remembering the Kanji | 908 | 186,159 | 2010-04-10, 11:03 pm | ||
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Thread: WHat do you think about AJATT's commercialization? Post: WHat do you think about AJATT's commercialization? Eh. I can't help but wonder who's actually going to pay for it. It seems like most of the people who are doing AJATT are in high school or college and aren't the most likely of people to shell out ... |
xquio | General discussion | 142 | 43,303 | 2010-04-07, 4:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Half way! Post: Half way! I'm slightly more than halfway, after flirting with RTK Lite for about a month and then finishing up the difference tonight. I'm going to finish this before the 16th, even if it means chugging out mor... |
xquio | Remembering the Kanji | 616 | 180,501 | 2010-04-06, 12:05 am | ||
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Thread: Mark all hard first time? Post: Mark all hard first time? I was doing that for a while but then stopped. It was just kind of irritating to have more reviews than I needed. I've found that since I stopped worrying so much and been more liberal with my "good" ... |
xquio | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 3,108 | 2010-04-05, 11:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Better sleep with F.lux Post: Better sleep with F.lux I might try this. Only issue is that I don't want to leave my laptop screen on all night. My sleep schedule is f'd in the a. Bed at 3, up by 9:45 on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and then up between ... |
xquio | Off topic | 47 | 19,447 | 2010-03-06, 1:36 am | ||
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Thread: "Best" media and how to find it (if you have no idea) Post: "Best" media and how to find it (if you have no id... What about using the Listmania/So you'd like to guides on Amazon.co.jp? I use them in English all the time, found my absolute favorite books and movies through them. Yes, they're totally subjective a... |
xquio | General discussion | 21 | 3,197 | 2010-02-27, 9:12 pm | ||
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Thread: The Encouragement Thread Post: The Encouragement Thread Whenever I try to focus heavily on images, I usually end up failing the kanji. Like for the kanji for II, my image was a gladiator with two arrows in his quiver, fighting off a horde of nekkid cougars... |
xquio | Remembering the Kanji | 908 | 186,159 | 2010-02-26, 11:50 am | ||
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Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! I hit 508 last night. I rushed to get there so I wasn't as ecstatic as I thought I might be, but still, it's nice to know I only have to do this 1,534 more times. Only. -.- But, one of the light nove... |
xquio | Remembering the Kanji | 526 | 167,176 | 2010-02-23, 7:54 pm | ||
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Thread: The Encouragement Thread Post: The Encouragement Thread rosenafglenn Wrote:Make the finish date flexible, don't beat yourself up for being behind. I finished RTK a week later than I wanted to, because I wanted to go too fast. It's okay to slow down a bit, ... |
xquio | Remembering the Kanji | 908 | 186,159 | 2010-02-22, 7:05 pm | ||
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Thread: The Encouragement Thread Post: The Encouragement Thread I'm at 430 and getting frustrated and discouraged. My whole goal of learning Japanese is to be able read and translate a particular series of trashy yuri light novels, and when I think about that, I g... |
xquio | Remembering the Kanji | 908 | 186,159 | 2010-02-21, 9:31 pm | ||