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Thread: Learning only written Chinese... any takers? Post: Learning only written Chinese... any takers? I don't see what's wrong with doing this. It sounds interesting! Certainly, knowing the meaning of characters A and B will not guarantee that you will know the meaning of character compound AB, but th... |
cellophane | Chinese and Hanzi | 10 | 3,631 | 2011-05-04, 6:29 am | ||
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Thread: Stroke order for 凸 and 凹 Post: Stroke order for 凸 and 凹 I think the animated ones are the Chinese stroke order, and the still ones are the Japanese stroke order. |
cellophane | The Japanese language | 13 | 5,628 | 2011-04-29, 5:02 pm | ||
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Thread: How to read kanji readings in a book after finsihing RTK1? Post: How to read kanji readings in a book after finsihi... buonaparte Wrote:cellophane Wrote:* well, that's a bit of an exaggeration for effect; you would know words written with only one kanji. You wouldn't. You wouldn't know how they sound and how to pronou... |
cellophane | Remembering the Kanji | 40 | 17,335 | 2011-04-17, 6:45 am | ||
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Thread: How to read kanji readings in a book after finsihing RTK1? Post: How to read kanji readings in a book after finsihi... In order to read a page of text, you at least need to know all the words on the page. The same is true for any language. louischa has pointed this out already - RTK I and II do not teach you any words... |
cellophane | Remembering the Kanji | 40 | 17,335 | 2011-04-17, 5:35 am | ||
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Thread: How to read kanji readings in a book after finsihing RTK1? Post: How to read kanji readings in a book after finsihi... Perhaps you're going about this the wrong way? Maybe instead of trying to learn readings of characters, you should be trying to learn words instead. That's what I'm doing at the moment at least. For ... |
cellophane | Remembering the Kanji | 40 | 17,335 | 2011-04-15, 2:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Using an SRS for mathematics study Post: Using an SRS for mathematics study OP here - yes, I still occasionally come here to lurk. Maybe I'll start posting again considering I've recently restarted Japanese study. I'd just like to say - if you do this, be very, VERY careful ... |
cellophane | Off topic | 34 | 14,160 | 2011-04-15, 1:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Drilling from English to Japanese... Post: Drilling from English to Japanese... I think the best would be J-J. It's a bit trickier to get your head around, but it's doable - I haven't actually done it with Japanese, but have with other languages. Antimoon.com has a description of... |
cellophane | Remembering the Kanji | 16 | 1,905 | 2009-03-27, 5:55 pm | ||
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Thread: On the English proficiency of Northern European people Post: On the English proficiency of Northern European pe... rich_f Wrote:Going back to what someone said in an earlier post, even though I need to get my German back up to speed, the one thing that's really bugging the hell out of me is that when it comes righ... |
cellophane | General discussion | 65 | 11,270 | 2009-03-06, 5:29 am | ||
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Thread: RTH character list Post: RTH character list May I ask the forum a favour? I'm switching my attention from Japanese to Chinese, and so I'm attempting RTH (traditional). Has anyone compiled a list of the hanzi and keywords, to save me and anyone ... |
cellophane | Learning resources | 2 | 866 | 2009-03-03, 10:51 am | ||
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Thread: non-english source of Heisig Post: non-english source of Heisig Yeah, I see what you're saying, to some extent at least. An English-Japanese dictionary probably wouldn't pose too much of a problem for a non native, but I imagine that grammar guides must be quite d... |
cellophane | General discussion | 28 | 5,745 | 2009-02-03, 6:01 am | ||
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Thread: non-english source of Heisig Post: non-english source of Heisig As an alternative to the Greasemonkey script, you could always download and install an SRS program like Anki (http://www.ichi2.net/anki/ , lots of people like it) or Mnemosyne (http://www.mnemosyne-pr... |
cellophane | General discussion | 28 | 5,745 | 2009-02-02, 8:17 am | ||
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Thread: Using an SRS for mathematics study Post: Using an SRS for mathematics study Nukemarine Wrote:You have to be careful that the flash card is consise. However, I think it's feasible if you have three example problems per formula. This can be akin to 3 example sentences per gramm... |
cellophane | Off topic | 34 | 14,160 | 2008-12-19, 7:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Using an SRS for mathematics study Post: Using an SRS for mathematics study A bit of history: I used to be able to just read and understand stuff - I barely ever bothered to revise. However, that seemed to stop working when I got to uni: there just seemed to be too much stuff... |
cellophane | Off topic | 34 | 14,160 | 2008-12-18, 7:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Using an SRS for mathematics study Post: Using an SRS for mathematics study I don't suppose there are that many people here who have anything to say on this topic, but there might be one or two. Anyway - does anyone else/has anyone else attempted to use an SRS for studying ma... |
cellophane | Off topic | 34 | 14,160 | 2008-12-18, 7:15 am | ||
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Thread: Tokyo fishmarket closed for foreigners Post: Tokyo fishmarket closed for foreigners dilandau23 Wrote:bodhisamaya Wrote:I was giving my personal experience in the military. Were you offended by my personal experience? Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize it was your personal experience. ... |
cellophane | Off topic | 104 | 14,406 | 2008-12-18, 6:59 am | ||
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Thread: Tokyo fishmarket closed for foreigners Post: Tokyo fishmarket closed for foreigners b0ng0 Wrote:I would like to point out in that video they are *English* tourists who have a pretty bad reputation. The article was correct though, they are literally British tourists. One could easily ... |
cellophane | Off topic | 104 | 14,406 | 2008-12-17, 8:34 am | ||