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Thread: Revisiting the movie method: how to order the onyomi Post: RE: Revisiting the movie method: how to order the ... (2014-08-03, 2:20 am)aldebrn Wrote: The spreadsheet purportedly made available by Alex Elkholy, the first proponent of the movie method, organized the onyomi alphabetically and dispensing with the n... |
alyks | Learning resources | 11 | 3,345 | 2016-02-12, 3:09 pm | ||
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Thread: The way things used to be, a condensed history of AJATT Post: The way things used to be, a condensed history of ... Jarvik7 Wrote:Everyone loves broad-generalizations! Ok, everybody listen. For the record, Jarvik doesn't like AJATT. He wants you to know that he disagrees completely with AJATT and its ideas. Can't ... |
alyks | Off topic | 97 | 24,503 | 2010-01-08, 10:22 am | ||
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Thread: The way things used to be, a condensed history of AJATT Post: The way things used to be, a condensed history of ... Nii87 Wrote:...If the guy is so unfamiliar with everything, how did he get your email in the first place Alyks? I happen to have three websites setup. @Jarvik7 Those eight things were most of what w... |
alyks | Off topic | 97 | 24,503 | 2010-01-08, 10:12 am | ||
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Thread: The way things used to be, a condensed history of AJATT Post: The way things used to be, a condensed history of ... Today I received an email from somebody seemingly unfamiliar with the forum, AJATT, everything. He asked the humble question of how to learn Japanese. When I sat down to write the response, however, I... |
alyks | Off topic | 97 | 24,503 | 2010-01-08, 1:22 am | ||
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Thread: SRS for High Schoolers Post: SRS for High Schoolers Tobberoth Wrote:I'm definitely going to raise my kids with SRS. I can only imagine what a genius I would be if I had had SRS when I went to school. And I'm talking elementary school and onwards. Math?... |
alyks | Off topic | 36 | 6,055 | 2009-12-17, 12:25 am | ||
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Thread: Re-examining your SRS workflow Post: Re-examining your SRS workflow Boy did I come in late. It might be a bit dated by a couple of weeks, but Ghinzdra doesn't know what he's talking about. The SRS is not an immutable system of godly memory requisition which, if gone a... |
alyks | General discussion | 176 | 48,558 | 2009-08-17, 2:29 am | ||
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Thread: Hall of heroes Post: Hall of heroes Nukemarine should be on there for being an overall nice guy to everybody and always being helpful. |
alyks | General discussion | 55 | 7,142 | 2009-08-05, 11:58 am | ||
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Thread: Diminishing Return Post: Diminishing Return Yeah, it does apply. 100 new vocabulary words means much more to the beginner than it does to those with a larger knowledge already. |
alyks | General discussion | 55 | 8,764 | 2009-07-25, 11:17 am | ||
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Thread: UBJG and Japanese Sentence Patterns for Eff. comm. Post: UBJG and Japanese Sentence Patterns for Eff. comm. kazelee Wrote:What about grammar for the not so beginner? Well, Death Note is fun to read. Shin chan is also really funny. |
alyks | Learning resources | 13 | 2,771 | 2009-07-02, 1:59 pm | ||
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Thread: UBJG and Japanese Sentence Patterns for Eff. comm. Post: UBJG and Japanese Sentence Patterns for Eff. comm. I did UBJG and I don't regret it. The way I did it was to just import all of the sentences and go through a set amount a day with my reps. This helped enormously because it was very easy, didn't requi... |
alyks | Learning resources | 13 | 2,771 | 2009-06-29, 8:58 pm | ||
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Thread: General Music Recommendation Thread (Japanese, of course) Post: General Music Recommendation Thread (Japanese, of ... What sort of things would they play on the radio in Japan? Most radio streams I run across are anime songs and stupid jpop. Can anybody give us a radio stream that doesn't suck? |
alyks | Learning resources | 106 | 32,607 | 2009-06-28, 5:32 pm | ||
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Thread: ANKI users: What's the furthest due card in your RTK deck? Post: ANKI users: What's the furthest due card in your R... 2.1 years for 子 |
alyks | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 2,985 | 2009-06-28, 10:07 am | ||
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Thread: The Japanese consulate/文部省 scholarship experiences Post: The Japanese consulate/文部省 scholarship experiences strugglebunny Wrote:Really cool post. I never heard about this program, but I'm going to keep it on my radar, perhaps after I'm done with my B.A. (partially because I only have 2 semesters left, and p... |
alyks | General discussion | 13 | 2,874 | 2009-06-25, 11:00 am | ||
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Thread: The Japanese consulate/文部省 scholarship experiences Post: The Japanese consulate/文部省 scholarship experiences Right, so, I recently went to the Japanese consulate to apply for the 文部科学省 undergrad scholarship. This was a pretty big deal for me, but then I got rejected. So I wrote a long article on the thing. A... |
alyks | General discussion | 13 | 2,874 | 2009-06-24, 11:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Favorite non-EDICT dictionary Post: Favorite non-EDICT dictionary 大辞林 is super pimp. It is my main, and most loved, dictionary. I suggest everybody use it. |
alyks | Learning resources | 6 | 2,637 | 2009-06-24, 11:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Thesis - Japanese Studies (my past 1 year) Post: Thesis - Japanese Studies (my past 1 year) I approve of this, as well as your golden hair. |
alyks | General discussion | 25 | 3,561 | 2009-06-22, 7:24 pm | ||
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Thread: New/altered strategy for learning Kanji? Post: New/altered strategy for learning Kanji? Consider your situation. You're leaving for Japan in a month, so what do you do? You know that we say everybody should learn the kanji first, but you're leaving for Japan and you want to focus on the ... |
alyks | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 2,933 | 2009-06-22, 1:20 am | ||
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Thread: Examination for Japanese University Admission (日本留学試験） Post: Examination for Japanese University Admission (日本留... mentat_kgs Wrote:For me there was only an English and Japanese exam. I simply thought the test was too big. I could not take the time to read each text calmly. Graduate students only had to take the J... |
alyks | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 18 | 9,680 | 2009-06-20, 9:59 am | ||
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Thread: Examination for Japanese University Admission (日本留学試験） Post: Examination for Japanese University Admission (日本留... mentat_kgs Wrote:I took a test for a scholarship 2 weeks ago. The test had 20 questions, each question had a text. They didn't go easy on the Kanjis, but that was not the hard part. Each text was an e... |
alyks | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 18 | 9,680 | 2009-06-19, 10:27 pm | ||
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Thread: Movie Method - Group Submissions Post: Movie Method - Group Submissions kanjiwarrior Wrote:I did mine a little differently. I also didn't do the groups as a whole, I went in Heisig order, which the exception of ア (Ace Ventura). I found that it didn't seem to make any diff... |
alyks | Group study | 31 | 10,849 | 2009-06-15, 5:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Movie Method - Group Submissions Post: Movie Method - Group Submissions Nukemarine Wrote:Just a very silly mnemonic to help me attach KOU to Lord of the Rings. If there's a better one out there, I'm all ears. Ah! I used American Psycho (Christian Bale) for こう. |
alyks | Group study | 31 | 10,849 | 2009-06-15, 11:39 am | ||
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Thread: Movie Method - Group Submissions Post: Movie Method - Group Submissions Nukemarine Wrote:I did an extra hundred, by I haven't typed them up. Any opinions on what I submitted so far? Yeah, I know, I skimped on putting stories in for Lord of the Rings. Nukemarine, I found t... |
alyks | Group study | 31 | 10,849 | 2009-06-14, 8:07 pm | ||
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Thread: Meaning of 「っす」 Post: Meaning of 「っす」 Sometimes I'll drop a noir-police like phrase, or words you'd see in a New York cop movie in my English... It's all about timing. |
alyks | The Japanese language | 9 | 3,567 | 2009-06-07, 11:48 am | ||
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Thread: trouble going kanji to keyword Post: trouble going kanji to keyword Useless. Don't worry. |
alyks | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 1,672 | 2009-06-06, 10:47 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 months? Post: JLPT 1 in 3 months? Getting past my sarcasm, the idea is that you get familiar enough to tell the difference between kanji enough to learn to read them, since you never have to write them on the JLPT (I think?) |
alyks | General discussion | 395 | 64,336 | 2009-06-01, 6:24 pm | ||
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Thread: JLPT 1 in 3 months? Post: JLPT 1 in 3 months? Amphetamines + Polyphasic + Dominic O'Brien's book (Good one, not crippled ones) + Nothing else to do + Literally 24/7 learning = FTW Cut it to RTK lite and use above formula, you've got a slim chanc... |
alyks | General discussion | 395 | 64,336 | 2009-06-01, 6:20 pm | ||
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Thread: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application? Post: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application? sethg Wrote:alyks Wrote:I think Anki is quite good as it is. A lot of people want something to manage multiple decks, but I use only one deck for everything, so I'm perfectly happy. I also think the U... |
alyks | Off topic | 127 | 19,211 | 2009-05-30, 3:20 pm | ||
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Thread: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application? Post: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application? I think Anki is quite good as it is. A lot of people want something to manage multiple decks, but I use only one deck for everything, so I'm perfectly happy. I also think the UI is just fine as it is,... |
alyks | Off topic | 127 | 19,211 | 2009-05-30, 9:59 am | ||
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Thread: dealing with stress.. stop the eye twitching? Post: dealing with stress.. stop the eye twitching? squiggyflop Wrote:how do you all deal with stress? I wake up crying every four hours. |
alyks | Off topic | 20 | 4,568 | 2009-05-27, 11:44 pm | ||
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Thread: How do you explain the Heisig method to folks not in the know? Post: How do you explain the Heisig method to folks not ... Kanji are made up of a building blocks. Memory works best when using your imagination. You imagine funny stories by making kanji building blocks into funny things. |
alyks | Remembering the Kanji | 24 | 3,474 | 2009-05-25, 7:31 pm | ||
