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    Thread: Zhongwen Red(and a little bit of Green) Deck Release
Post: Zhongwen Red(and a little bit of Green) Deck Relea...

Yonosa, thanks for this great file, I have been putting it to use over the last few days. I have only noticed a couple of typos, but I have come across one card where the audio doesn't match at all. ...
Christoph Chinese and Hanzi 20 10,971 2009-11-11, 7:29 pm
    Thread: Protect and Praise Strokes
Post: Protect and Praise Strokes

furrykef Wrote:Christoph Wrote:If you were taking the Kanji Kentei it'd be a much safer bet to use the Regular script as Semi-cursive could be marked as incorrect. Both the regular and semi-cursive on...
Christoph Remembering the Kanji 8 1,899 2008-07-06, 11:04 pm
    Thread: Protect and Praise Strokes
Post: Protect and Praise Strokes

The style that Yamasa is displaying on the right there is referred to as 行書体(ぎょうしょたい)or Semi-cursive script. The other is 楷書体(かいしょたい) or Regular script. If you were taking the Kanji Kentei it'd be a ...
Christoph Remembering the Kanji 8 1,899 2008-07-03, 11:19 pm
    Thread: Leitner system flashcard for Palm OS
Post: Leitner system flashcard for Palm OS

I use this J-OS with supermemo for palm. Works great. Simple-Palm
Christoph General discussion 4 1,461 2008-06-25, 2:31 am
    Thread: Anyone reach fluency?
Post: Anyone reach fluency?

howdycowdy Wrote:By this definition, were you "fluent" when you were 10 years old? You couldn't do then even close to what you can do now, but wouldn't you still consider a 10 year old or even an 8 ye...
Christoph General discussion 48 7,091 2008-05-18, 11:16 pm
    Thread: What age are you?
Post: What age are you?

25 years old. "Finished" (still do the occasional review..) RTK 1 about a year ago, pushing for kanken level 4 now.
Christoph Off topic 357 73,653 2008-03-03, 7:13 pm
    Thread: Beyond RtK 3
Post: Beyond RtK 3

howdycowdy Wrote:What types of stuff are you reading? Anything, everything, it's an obsession. howdycowdy Wrote:And to what extent are you finding that you still need more kanji? Not hugely, you can...
Christoph The Japanese language 21 13,329 2008-02-26, 9:26 pm
    Thread: HOW TO SPEAK?
Post: HOW TO SPEAK?

The premise of the book is to isolate the study of readings (or "HOW TO SPEAK"), from that of the writing and meaning and hopefully make the task a great deal easier in the process. I suggest you re...
Christoph General discussion 2 1,014 2008-01-28, 8:35 pm
    Thread: Reviewing without a pen or paper
Post: Reviewing without a pen or paper

I sometimes trace the character on my hand, but 99% of the time I write the character into my Kanji notebook. I don't think there's anything wrong with just tracing the kanji on your hand, but for m...
Christoph Remembering the Kanji 12 1,938 2007-12-31, 1:51 am
    Thread: Kanji Games for the Nintendo DS
Post: Kanji Games for the Nintendo DS

revenantkioku Wrote:I got Kanken2 and the lack of something like a "Hey, you've studied every question in this section" marker bugs me. I'm a statistics and numbers whore, and hell without it I dunno ...
Christoph Learning resources 231 128,067 2007-12-20, 8:35 pm
    Thread: Taking Japanese keitai to the UK...
Post: Taking Japanese keitai to the UK...

I have a vodafone v604t, and there's no sim card slot. I'm pretty sure the majority of Handsets have the sim built into it somewhere. It depends if your phone has the sim card slot or not, I think it'...
Christoph Off topic 7 3,057 2007-12-20, 6:32 pm
    Thread: Kanji to English vs English to Kanji Flashcards
Post: Kanji to English vs English to Kanji Flashcards

A big part of the method is the recall of the characters, so going from kanji to keyword goes against that. As Heisig mentions somewhere in the book, you are really getting 2 birds with one stone by g...
Christoph Remembering the Kanji 4 1,106 2007-12-19, 9:17 pm
    Thread: Reviewing stories of already known kanjis
Post: Reviewing stories of already known kanjis

usis35 Wrote:It happens a lot, when reviewing, that I remember a kanji, I can reproduce it perfectly, but not the story. What should I do in those cases? Just mark the kanji as known and go on, or mar...
Christoph Remembering the Kanji 8 1,561 2007-12-12, 6:28 pm
    Thread: Quick question for you guys.
Post: Quick question for you guys.

ruisu Wrote:I don't want to discourage you from getting doing better, but I think 30% isn't bad for first time reviews. At risk of putting my foot in my mouth, I think the people getting 85-90% right ...
Christoph Remembering the Kanji 20 3,749 2007-12-11, 10:21 pm
    Thread: How hard was it for you to finish Remembering The Kanji 1?
Post: How hard was it for you to finish Remembering The ...

Total agreement, the last few hundred seemed to take ages, like above poster says "just keep going!!". Don't fret about the rate of progress, just make sure there is progress! It'll be done before you...
Christoph Remembering the Kanji 44 15,364 2007-12-10, 8:34 pm
    Thread: JLPT 2007
Post: JLPT 2007

I don't feel that it went all so well really, as was expected I ran out of time on the reading paper. listening seemed to be a pretty tough one compared to some past papers. Kanji and vocab was defini...
Christoph JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 72 23,019 2007-12-02, 7:48 pm
    Thread: Kan Ken: DS or step books?
Post: Kan Ken: DS or step books?

I would have to recommend getting the Step books aswell, the games (especially the new Kanken DS2) are pretty in-depth but the step books and then the past test books are probably a necessary thing.. ...
Christoph Learning resources 3 1,216 2007-11-19, 6:00 pm
    Thread: Where are the tests?
Post: Where are the tests?

shonanthebeach Wrote:I would like to take tests. To review and click yes, I know it is not telling me anything. I would love random order tests. By the way, the book is great, but after getting into...
Christoph Remembering the Kanji 5 1,245 2007-11-16, 8:35 am
    Thread: On Yomi dyslexia
Post: On Yomi dyslexia

lankydan Wrote:How confusing do these things get? You come across the ambiguous ones such as "Large, pedestal, reign, warrior, poverty, etc" how do you remember which on yomi reading to use, especiall...
Christoph Remembering the Kanji 8 3,836 2007-11-14, 4:45 am
    Thread: Turning Your PC Japanese?
Post: Turning Your PC Japanese?

ah ok, sorry Ruisu, didn'T know about that.
Christoph Learning resources 14 3,318 2007-11-13, 10:04 pm
    Thread: Turning Your PC Japanese?
Post: Turning Your PC Japanese?

ruisu Wrote:First off, in Japan do they have a Japanese version of Windows that is different from simply changing locales and installing the Japanese MUI? I did that, but my forward slashes still sho...
Christoph Learning resources 14 3,318 2007-11-13, 8:52 pm
    Thread: Beyond RtK 3
Post: Beyond RtK 3

I think that when you get to that stage.. perhaps not strictly assigning keywords might be a good idea. There seems to be lots of people here who would wish to alter existing RTK1 keywords to suit the...
Christoph The Japanese language 21 13,329 2007-10-25, 9:23 pm
    Thread: Kanken - 平成19年度 第2回
Post: Kanken - 平成19年度 第2回

taijuando Wrote:what is kanken? The Japanese Kanji Aptitude Test 日本漢字能力検定 Nihon Kanji Nōryoku Kentei or just "Kanken" for short. Here's a link to the wiki page.
Christoph JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 10 3,954 2007-10-21, 10:00 pm
    Thread: Kanken - 平成19年度 第2回
Post: Kanken - 平成19年度 第2回

I did want to go for 5級 in November, but with all the JLPT study I have to get done, I'm gonna take it in January instead. I'm pretty lucky here, our school holds the test 4 times a year. Good luck w...
Christoph JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 10 3,954 2007-10-21, 9:32 pm
    Thread: 外人
Post: 外人

Django Wrote:There was 日本 and 外国. I'm sure I'm not the only person to have been asked in "In 外国 do you have this plant/animal/custom/noodle?" Not only may I not be in a position to comment on matters ...
Christoph General discussion 54 9,782 2007-10-13, 8:16 pm
    Thread: 外人
Post: 外人

Sorry Yorkii, I forgot I'd posted that... and then decided that what I'd said wasn't exactly well thought out.. so I edited my post. yorkii Wrote:Again, by being the boss and acting in this manner he...
Christoph General discussion 54 9,782 2007-10-12, 2:04 am
    Thread: 外人
Post: 外人

yorkii Wrote:the fact that people casual say it the problem though. People have no idea that it is a racist word. Your principal obviously didn't know either. By using a racist word as confirming ones...
Christoph General discussion 54 9,782 2007-10-12, 1:07 am
    Thread: 外人
Post: 外人

The Japanese won't stop, and we shouldn't expect them to. I think it should be about how we perceive the word.. when I first came to Japan, I too had a horrible disliking for this word.. but after hea...
Christoph General discussion 54 9,782 2007-10-11, 9:14 pm
    Thread: Supermemo + J-OS on Palm
Post: Supermemo + J-OS on Palm

Yeah, I installed a J-OS on mine, I went for the one by Hacker Dudeさん, because it allows you to enter kanji aswell. This does have a catch, being that you have to pay for it. You can of course just ...
Christoph Learning resources 5 2,431 2007-10-09, 6:25 am
    Thread: Supermemo + J-OS on Palm
Post: Supermemo + J-OS on Palm

I have a palm T|X with supermemo running on it. I do agree some of the functions are a little confusing to access at first (maybe it's a different version now?), but it didn't take too long to get com...
Christoph Learning resources 5 2,431 2007-10-07, 10:28 pm