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Thread: Tips on how to stay motivated with RTK/RTH/SRS Post: Tips on how to stay motivated with RTK/RTH/SRS Yes, I get most of my study done on my mobile walking to and from the station (and on the train). About 30 mins each way. So I can clock up 40 mins a day without really trying to. But it would be nic... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 1 | 1,158 | 2012-05-24, 12:22 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... I think I posted in this thread something along the lines of five years ago, that I had finished RTK. And I had. But I made the grave mistake of not continuing on to vocab and/or RTK2 with any real in... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,663 | 2012-04-14, 10:56 am | ||
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Thread: 2012 JLPT Study Thread Post: 2012 JLPT Study Thread I'm also going to take the N2 in July. I completed RTK years ago (2007 or so) but then didn't study Japanese much for a while.. and before I knew it I'd forgotten almost all my kanji and my level drop... |
rgravina | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 297 | 78,500 | 2012-01-05, 10:49 pm | ||
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Thread: dictionary of advanced japanese grammar Post: dictionary of advanced japanese grammar I have the Read Real Japanese (essays) and it's awesome. Finally it has got me reading Japanese. |
rgravina | Learning resources | 7 | 1,432 | 2009-01-14, 12:34 am | ||
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Thread: Yet another "Yet another 'Is it worth it?' thread" thread Post: Yet another "Yet another 'Is it worth it?' thread"... Also, there's no denying that Chinese have a clear advantange when learning Japanese. Just watch them burn through the vocab and reading out sentences aloud in class (this could have to do with at lea... |
rgravina | General discussion | 7 | 1,809 | 2007-07-06, 5:29 am | ||
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Thread: Yet another "Yet another 'Is it worth it?' thread" thread Post: Yet another "Yet another 'Is it worth it?' thread"... I can give you an anecdote that is the complete opposite. A friend of mine finished Heisig about nine months after coming to Japan. When he arrived, he only spoke basic Japanese (say JLPT 4 or 3 level... |
rgravina | General discussion | 7 | 1,809 | 2007-07-06, 5:23 am | ||
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Thread: Chilling out Post: Chilling out ziggr Wrote:The few cards I fail, I let accumulate in the red box. Ziggr! You should frame that and put it on your wall (maybe get rid of the red stack first :). I'm floored, that's one hell of a kanj... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 11 | 2,515 | 2007-06-27, 5:08 am | ||
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Thread: Your favourite songs Post: Your favourite songs wrightak, that girl's (みわ) voice is amazing! Personally, I'll be happy when I can understand what Rip Slyme are saying :) Try these on for size: [Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCpXAoksNSo] [... |
rgravina | Learning resources | 30 | 8,333 | 2007-06-10, 11:33 am | ||
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Thread: A little off topic...work in Japan Post: A little off topic...work in Japan Thanks chamcham. Yeah, I've done some looking around on the recruitment sites and it seems the finance industry pays some serious yen for programmers. I might not have the type of experience they are ... |
rgravina | Off topic | 8 | 2,664 | 2007-06-07, 4:13 am | ||
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Thread: A little off topic...work in Japan Post: A little off topic...work in Japan I'm studying in Japan, and gradute next March, and am thinking about working here too. The thing I've found though, is that Japanese companies offer *really bad* wages. I'll have a Masters degree in C... |
rgravina | Off topic | 8 | 2,664 | 2007-06-06, 11:37 pm | ||
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Thread: hmm totally not japanese related Post: hmm totally not japanese related Ricardo Wrote:"Language choice is a relatively subjective, almost religious issue" - John Shipman (this quote is so true). I second that! thegeezer3, almost every popular language has decent support f... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 2,680 | 2007-05-21, 11:16 am | ||
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Thread: hmm totally not japanese related Post: hmm totally not japanese related chamcham Wrote:Seems like Django would be a great choice(even the creator of Python recommended it... Yeah that's what drew my attention towards it. I haven't used it for anything (yet) but it does lo... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 2,680 | 2007-05-21, 5:29 am | ||
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Thread: hmm totally not japanese related Post: hmm totally not japanese related If you want my advice, after years of PHP programming for the web I eventually ditched it and now use Python and have not looked back. I believe it is a much better programming language, and the commu... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 2,680 | 2007-05-21, 2:12 am | ||
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Thread: What do you wish you'd known when you were starting out? Post: What do you wish you'd known when you were startin... I second Ziggr above. Here I am, back yesterday after another long break from studying Heisig (even though I did, sort of, finish. I had studied the first half of the book before discovering the site ... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 5,560 | 2007-05-02, 2:14 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... ziggr Wrote:I remember years ago when you were first working through RTK and sent in some corrections to the Heisig index. Thanks Ziggr! I remember that too... it was years ago :) And thanks again for... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,663 | 2006-11-20, 11:49 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Wow... I can't believe it either... I've just completed kanji 2042... I've just "#$%#$ completed kanji 2042!!!!! Woooohoooo! It's taken me years to get here. After a long break at about the h... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,663 | 2006-11-19, 5:39 am | ||
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Thread: Grammar question: ageru vs kureru Post: Grammar question: ageru vs kureru From my copy of Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar in the Related Expressions section for kureru (p.215): ------- The eye sign "v" [it isn't really a v, but it looks like a v] indicates which viewp... |
rgravina | General discussion | 9 | 6,539 | 2006-11-18, 2:00 pm | ||
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Thread: How far 100 words will get you Post: How far 100 words will get you JimmySeal Wrote:I think Japanese could easily require far more words than English in order to attain proficiency. It's been my experience that Japanese often uses the same word in various contexts and... |
rgravina | General discussion | 16 | 5,523 | 2006-11-06, 12:09 am | ||
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Thread: How far 100 words will get you Post: How far 100 words will get you ChrisFritz Wrote:Obviously such a ...what's the word I'm looking for... A game focused on a specific genre will add weight to certain words I recently got myself a PSP for the express purpose of play... |
rgravina | General discussion | 16 | 5,523 | 2006-11-05, 12:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Congrats to the PINBALL WIZARDS! Post: Congrats to the PINBALL WIZARDS! ファブリス Wrote:As for tatoeba he was able to review any time of the day on his mobile phone, pretty cool huh? Unfortunately he emailed me to say that this didn't work anymore since the review page was up... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 3 | 1,300 | 2006-10-29, 3:00 am | ||
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Thread: Help Identifying Kanji Post: Help Identifying Kanji If you're on a Mac, JEDict is a great program for times when you can't recognise a kanji. If you can recognise one ot two of the primitives, then it becomes easy to look up. http://jedict.com/ I'm no... |
rgravina | General discussion | 12 | 4,919 | 2006-10-23, 10:44 am | ||
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Thread: Hitting "The Wall" Post: Hitting "The Wall" ziggr Wrote:Stories are starting to swim together: a lot of the cards in the lower boxes are from Lesson 27, so I have Mr. T popping up so often that he's trying to push his way onto cards where he do... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 25 | 6,628 | 2006-10-13, 12:44 am | ||
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Thread: Difficulties in obtaining RTK1 Post: Difficulties in obtaining RTK1 I got my copy of RTK1 from Bonjinsha. They are a specialist Japanese langauge-learning bookstore so they are likely to have at least RTK1 and probably 2 and 3. It's somewhere on the Hanzomon-sen. http... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 2,101 | 2006-10-03, 11:53 am | ||
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Thread: textbooks Post: textbooks krusher Wrote:Tokyo + Computer programming job = bail I'm also interested to know, what was so particularly bad about it? A programming job anywhere can be stressful with the right mix of bad conditio... |
rgravina | Learning resources | 119 | 45,240 | 2006-09-29, 2:48 am | ||
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Thread: How much kanji should I learn? Post: How much kanji should I learn? vosmiura Wrote:I'd say you probably need an average of 200 hours study and review to finish RTK 1. What say others? Well, Hesig mentions in the RTK1 foreword that it could be done in four to six week... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 5,269 | 2006-09-10, 6:24 am | ||
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Thread: Give yourself a Christmas gift: Complete RTKI by Christmas Post: Give yourself a Christmas gift: Complete RTKI by C... Pangolin Wrote:I actually don't care how long RTK1 takes me, now. Even if it's a year, which it may well be, it still seems like a miracle. It is. Compare this method with how long it takes, and how f... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 23 | 7,078 | 2006-09-02, 5:02 am | ||
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Thread: Eliminating the need for English keywords - help needed Post: Eliminating the need for English keywords - help n... Piitaa Wrote:If you are using EDICT, words that are marked with (P) are among the more commonly used 20,000 Japanese words. Thankyou!!!! I often wished I could know which words were more frequently us... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 42 | 12,709 | 2006-08-19, 2:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Eliminating the need for English keywords - help needed Post: Eliminating the need for English keywords - help n... Actually one thing I've been doing often is to copy-paste the kanji into a dictionary and most of the time I can find a Japanese word with the same/similar meaning to the kanji. Sometimes the word is ... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 42 | 12,709 | 2006-08-18, 10:55 pm | ||
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Thread: Your favourite story by someone else Post: Your favourite story by someone else GoDoFCh33se Wrote:i liked all the Mr. T stories that many of you posted. So did I. They got me thinking about changing my person primative stories to Chuck Norris! What I am using now (a good friend) ... |
rgravina | Remembering the Kanji | 61 | 24,721 | 2006-08-16, 3:27 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT 2006 Post: JLPT 2006 ファブリス Wrote:I've never done JLPT but I'm thinking it could be a good idea to try JLPT 4 or 3. I would have a schedule, and a list of grammar and vocabulary to learn, instead of going in random directi... |
rgravina | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 60 | 20,587 | 2006-08-09, 2:57 am | ||