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    Thread: Are You An Above Average Language Learner?
Post: Are You An Above Average Language Learner?

Tzadeck Wrote:I think mostly it's just about how many hours you force yourself to put in. I'd agree with that. I spent a lot of time on methods, systems, but only learned 2k vocab my first year instea...
gstieglitz The Japanese language 27 3,355 2015-10-09, 7:26 am
    Thread: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks...
Post: Cultural Appropriation...Buckle Up, Folks...

I think aldebrn's post is pretty spot on. While not particularly malicious, you can easily find some Wapanese/Weeaboo folk who think that Japan's commercial exports accurately reflect Japanese cultu...
gstieglitz Off topic 168 10,729 2015-09-30, 6:57 am
    Thread: What's the state of Japanese Keyword RTK spreadsheets?
Post: What's the state of Japanese Keyword RTK spreadshe...

sokino Wrote:When did you guys start doing this? I know people say you should wait a bit after finish rtk to start doing this (as to not confuse things), so I was wondering if I should wait a bit. (It...
gstieglitz Remembering the Kanji 5 1,077 2015-09-30, 6:32 am
    Thread: What's the state of Japanese Keyword RTK spreadsheets?
Post: What's the state of Japanese Keyword RTK spreadshe...

Back when I was going through RTK I created a deck that contains example words for each Kanji. I then tried to select just one Japanese keyword, but couldn't decide what to select for: Short/Simple w...
gstieglitz Remembering the Kanji 5 1,077 2015-09-29, 8:42 am
    Thread: Sorting and suspending cards in Anki
Post: Sorting and suspending cards in Anki

mkabness Wrote:Which index field do you think is best for learning? Do you know the difference between CoreIndex, Optimized-Voc-Index-2k+4kDefault, Optimized-Voc-Index-2k and Nukimame-Core6k-Optimized...
gstieglitz Learning resources 9 1,678 2015-08-29, 7:27 am
    Thread: Sorting and suspending cards in Anki
Post: Sorting and suspending cards in Anki

mkabness Wrote:What do you mean by indices? Do you mean the various options you get when you click on the Field's button? Yeah, number fields that you can use to sort the deck by. Some decks don't hav...
gstieglitz Learning resources 9 1,678 2015-08-28, 3:48 pm
    Thread: Sorting and suspending cards in Anki
Post: Sorting and suspending cards in Anki

The further optimized deck I'm using comes with a lot of indices, you could see if one matches the one of your old deck (say, look up card 1000 in the browser, find the card in the new deck and see if...
gstieglitz Learning resources 9 1,678 2015-08-28, 6:56 am
    Thread: Manga with good/interesting Japanese?
Post: Manga with good/interesting Japanese?

Tzadeck Wrote:I read an elementary school level book called 西の魔女が死んだ that I though was quite beautifully written for a children's book. Can't think of any manga examples though--sorry! No worries. I ...
gstieglitz General discussion 8 1,996 2015-08-28, 6:13 am
    Thread: Manga with good/interesting Japanese?
Post: Manga with good/interesting Japanese?

Have any manga (or other "light" media) surprised you with their quality of writing? There's an abundance of "what to read" resources on the web, but not nearly as much talk about how the language is ...
gstieglitz General discussion 8 1,996 2015-08-27, 7:07 pm
    Thread: Dictionary of Japanese Grammar datasheets (was: crowdsourcing proposal)
Post: Interest in crowdsourcing Dictionary of Jap Gramma...

I've been playing around with the decks and added furigana on mouseover: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/e7irl7n...dified_DJG I'm not sure if I parsed all the HTML correctly, so I'm putting this up...
gstieglitz Learning resources 5 1,618 2015-08-24, 5:41 pm
    Thread: Dictionary of Japanese Grammar datasheets (was: crowdsourcing proposal)
Post: Interest in crowdsourcing Dictionary of Jap Gramma...

Ooh, nice! Thanks for sharing! I've been using my KS deck for a few weeks now and despite all the errors, it's surprisingly useful. I still read the books for every new entry though, there's just so ...
gstieglitz Learning resources 5 1,618 2015-08-23, 12:43 pm
    Thread: Dictionary of Japanese Grammar datasheets (was: crowdsourcing proposal)
Post: Dictionary of Japanese Grammar datasheets (was: cr...

edit: I've found most of the data I wanted and added the decks I'm using to the spreadsheet. The first deck contains just the key sentences, the second one contains all 8000+ sentences, last one is a...
gstieglitz Learning resources 5 1,618 2015-07-10, 5:41 pm
    Thread: Core 10k - optimized i+1 version
Post: Core 10k - optimized i+1 version

If anyone's interested, I just made some reading notes to help differentiate stuff like 上げる and 角. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...sp=sharing Index should match the standard sorting index...
gstieglitz Learning resources 348 90,923 2014-12-20, 1:50 pm