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    Thread: please add jlpt cards to review
Post: please add jlpt cards to review

I can't seem to find any link to Trinity. Should I just email Fabrice?
ericshun Learning resources 5 1,199 2009-05-06, 3:51 pm
    Thread: please add jlpt cards to review
Post: please add jlpt cards to review

I mean speedanki.com is a good resource for jlpt words. They also have sample sentences for the words which is great. The problem is you have to sort the cards yourself. Sometimes the stacks get corr...
ericshun Learning resources 5 1,199 2009-05-06, 11:57 am
    Thread: How do I get rikaichan/peraperakun to save to a file?
Post: How do I get rikaichan/peraperakun to save to a fi...

Yes, indicated a location, but it's not working. Is there a certain format that I have to put it in. I'm using OS X, so I put the save file location as /Macintosh HD/Users/eric/Desktop/kanji.doc Shou...
ericshun Learning resources 5 3,513 2009-05-05, 11:14 pm
    Thread: please add jlpt cards to review
Post: please add jlpt cards to review

jlpt 2 vocab! with example sentences! i'm tired of just looking at kanji. give me words (in sentences).
ericshun Learning resources 5 1,199 2009-05-05, 10:14 pm
    Thread: How do I get rikaichan/peraperakun to save to a file?
Post: How do I get rikaichan/peraperakun to save to a fi...

I created a file using textedit in OS X. When I press S after highlighting, it says "Saved," but when I open the file, there is no kanji in the document. What does one do?
ericshun Learning resources 5 3,513 2009-05-04, 6:58 am
    Thread: Confused
Post: Confused

Look up the kanji using a DS Lite and Genius Dictionary Software, look at all the words that use the kanji. Come up with the story based on that.
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 11 2,324 2007-06-28, 1:54 am
    Thread: Studying Vocabulary: Tactics?
Post: Studying Vocabulary: Tactics?

I feel pretty qualified to comment on all of this. I did Cornell's FALCON program for a year, and now I am in Japan. I have been here for 9 months now. The textbook we used was called JSL: Japanese t...
ericshun General discussion 82 22,980 2007-06-06, 2:22 am
    Thread: Great Kanji words
Post: Great Kanji words

How about eminent ball =ping pong ? heheh
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 55 15,470 2007-03-19, 12:30 am
    Thread: RTK get together?
Post: RTK get together?

I can definitely make a meetup during a weekend in April. I come from Shimane, so Osaka is preferable, but I have a lot of friends in Tokyo, so I could meet you up there too. Fabrice is a celebrity h...
ericshun Off topic 232 102,374 2007-03-18, 10:46 pm
    Thread: Where to Find volume 1
Post: Where to Find volume 1

Hardback probably has a higher profit margin.
ericshun Learning resources 10 2,730 2007-03-18, 10:29 pm
    Thread: Studying Vocabulary: Tactics?
Post: Studying Vocabulary: Tactics?

ファブリス Wrote:So anybody has a good experience with sentence learning, with vocab in context? Because I am really excited about building something like that that takes care of vocab, sentences, kanji r...
ericshun General discussion 82 22,980 2007-03-18, 10:27 pm
    Thread: Are you directly responsible for another person now using Heisig?
Post: Are you directly responsible for another person no...

Yes I've noticed the same things myself. Especially the people using it in Japan thing. In three of the cases where I've told people about this, they say something like "Yeah, I already know. I just s...
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 5 1,471 2007-03-18, 9:43 pm
    Thread: For sale: Remembering the Kanji vol.1
Post: For sale: Remembering the Kanji vol.1

I can't believe the book has been this scarce. I had to go to the edge of the Earth to get mine, and that was 6 months ago. Is this still a problem? What happened? Did the book get super popoular all ...
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 14 2,926 2007-03-05, 10:29 pm
    Thread: kanji recall rate statistics
Post: kanji recall rate statistics

The model of recall for someone learning through Heisig should be something like R = a + b*(story strength) + c*(# of strokes) + d*(# of primitives) Why did you choose to base it on frequency in the...
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 21 5,455 2007-03-05, 2:52 am
    Thread: Studying Vocabulary: Tactics?
Post: Studying Vocabulary: Tactics?

That's a really cool website. A lot of stuff on there. But I have to comment on this... "The practical command of foreign languages in Japan is far below the average for highly literate communities, ...
ericshun General discussion 82 22,980 2007-03-05, 2:44 am
    Thread: Organic Mnemonics
Post: Organic Mnemonics

Yeah, this relates to the "Multiple Meanings" topic that I started. Try to get the true meaning of the kanji while still using the Heisig keyword.
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 11 2,740 2007-03-04, 10:38 pm
    Thread: Are you directly responsible for another person now using Heisig?
Post: Are you directly responsible for another person no...

Hello! I just want to say that I have gotten at least two people to use Heisig. One of them is now using this website in addition? How about you? Also, does anybody know if Heisig is getting more po...
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 5 1,471 2007-03-01, 5:06 am
    Thread: Your favourite story by someone else
Post: Your favourite story by someone else

ファブリス Wrote:Whoah, nice one scottamus. This will go well along with my Tolkien stories then ;p One thing I consider when makig stories is that I want to keep as close as possible to the original mean...
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 61 24,724 2007-03-01, 5:03 am
    Thread: Multiple meanings
Post: Multiple meanings

ファブリス Wrote:幽か 【かすか】 (adj-na,n) faint, dim, weak, indistinct, hazy, poor, wretched For example, you may imagine that Frodo and Sam became very weak, and actually became hazy as some kind of magical e...
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 6 1,974 2007-02-28, 10:12 pm
    Thread: When do you consider yourself "done" ?
Post: When do you consider yourself "done" ?

synewave Wrote:I'm doing a lot of my study away from the site, i.e. readings; grammar; example sentences and so on. But I still think that reviewing from Heisig keyword to kanji is a great way to keep...
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 38 6,994 2007-02-27, 3:48 am
    Thread: When do you consider yourself "done" ?
Post: When do you consider yourself "done" ?

I'm not anywhere close (in the 1100's, although technically still in the mid 800's after I stopped adding new kanji and started reviewing my failed column exclusively),..... BUT...out of curiosity......
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 38 6,994 2007-02-27, 1:45 am
    Thread: Your favourite story by...yourself!
Post: Your favourite story by...yourself!

Nice guys! Mine: vessels The navy private was sleeping in the bunker of his vessel when he wakes up to find an evil turkey, who rams its head into his crotch owwwwwwwwwwww. It wasn't just this priva...
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 16 4,911 2007-02-27, 1:37 am
    Thread: Organic Mnemonics
Post: Organic Mnemonics

erlog Wrote:I'm actually doing this now at a pace that's in the 6-7 week range, and you are right that you do get diminishing memory returns at that pace. However, if you have a lot of free time it ac...
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 11 2,740 2007-02-27, 1:27 am
    Thread: RTK for Japanese students?
Post: RTK for Japanese students?

Hi chamcham, First, I just want to continue to disagree that just because children can absorb stuff naturally doesn't mean we shouldn't phase them out of it. For 99.9% of people, there comes a time w...
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 18 2,863 2007-02-26, 2:43 am
    Thread: What is Heisig?
Post: What is Heisig?

Yeah, I like this. I also liked Heisig's own kaleidoscope analogy. This one is different though in that it compares Heisig to the rest of Japanese learning. Before I learned Heisig, I did the usual w...
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 1 1,547 2007-02-26, 2:15 am
    Thread: Organic Mnemonics
Post: Organic Mnemonics

After going through the five-hundred or so (or maybe sooner), I started to pay attention to the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw the keyword, and then I would build my story from there....
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 11 2,740 2007-02-26, 2:08 am
    Thread: Where to Find volume 1
Post: Where to Find volume 1

This was a real problem for me a couple of months ago. Does anyone know if Heisig is getting more popular? Fabrice is the website getting more popular? Anyway, I got mine (a used one) from http://www...
ericshun Learning resources 10 2,730 2007-02-26, 1:38 am
    Thread: RTK for Japanese students?
Post: RTK for Japanese students?

I'm still not convinced that it is for adults only. Middle schoolers and 6th graders could do this stuff, too, not just adults. I feel like Heisig's method could be used but just with a little more g...
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 18 2,863 2007-02-26, 1:25 am
    Thread: Advice for someone doing it backwards
Post: Advice for someone doing it backwards

I learned using Japanese the Spoken Language, and it's fantastic if you have a tape of all the drills and if you really do take the time to memorize the core conversations. Sure it uses romanji, but i...
ericshun General discussion 9 3,258 2007-02-22, 4:00 am
    Thread: RTK for Japanese students?
Post: RTK for Japanese students?

Jawful Wrote:Ah, another thought building off of decamer0n. That same thing happens when teaching elementary aged kids English in Japan. You can't teach them verbs, adjectives, etc by saying "here's a...
ericshun Remembering the Kanji 18 2,863 2007-02-22, 3:46 am