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    Thread: Advice
Post: Advice

I usually do 18-25 cards per day, and double of that during weekends. I also go through my restudy pile on fridays and weekends, while just focusing on adding new cards and reviewing daily. I spend ar...
Shock222 Remembering the Kanji 15 4,693 2012-06-21, 3:41 am
    Thread: Rtk good to learn new english words too
Post: Rtk good to learn new english words too

Same here, I had many instances where I needed to google "define "keyword"' to find out the meaning of the keyword given. However I am currently using another method; searching up the word in the ka...
Shock222 Remembering the Kanji 75 15,009 2012-06-17, 11:23 am
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

Hi, I have a little problem with the Core 2k deck. I can't seem to get any sound out of it. I read in the first post about having to download some files to put into the anki deck .media folder. Howev...
Shock222 The Japanese language 712 401,491 2012-06-13, 4:03 am
    Thread: Does core 2000 deck have sounds?
Post: Does core 2000 deck have sounds?

Hi, today I have just downloaded the core 2000 deck. I went up to 1700 in RTK and went through the essential parts of tae kim's grammer guild, and should be able to pick out the meaning of most "not t...
Shock222 The Japanese language 1 744 2012-06-12, 7:21 am
    Thread: How do you "study" RTK?
Post: How do you "study" RTK?

I do around 18- 25 cards a day, ending when a new radical is presented. On weekends i do more, around 40 or so cards. I usually just copy the story with the most stars and write the word down the fir...
Shock222 Remembering the Kanji 18 4,990 2012-06-11, 3:20 am
    Thread: I sometimes wonder is just hiragana enough?
Post: I sometimes wonder is just hiragana enough?

Marble101 Wrote:Shock222 Wrote:I am fluent in Chinese and Cantonese Isn't Cantonese a dialect of Chinese? Do you mean Mandarin and Cantonese? A little off topic: Now that you mention it, yes. In Singa...
Shock222 General discussion 35 10,502 2012-06-09, 9:57 pm
    Thread: I sometimes wonder is just hiragana enough?
Post: I sometimes wonder is just hiragana enough?

Hmm, for me, who's self studying Japanese, it is a must to learn kanji to self study. Websites like Tae Kim's Japanese guild have lots of kanji and other self studying resources will most likely conta...
Shock222 General discussion 35 10,502 2012-06-09, 10:38 am
    Thread: How many reviews per day?
Post: How many reviews per day?

I do around 20 cards per day, and the reviews were pretty steady at about 80 per day. When i started doing 40 on weekends, and 20 on weekdays, the reviews shot up to about a hundred sometimes. I only...
Shock222 Remembering the Kanji 4 3,343 2012-06-06, 2:14 am
    Thread: "You're studying Japanese?! You must love anime!/be an otaku!/etc.!"
Post: "You're studying Japanese?! You must love anime!/b...

I did get interested in japanese because of anime, but if it was only for anime, i would not have picked up studying japanese. I guess it's because anime is subbed anyways, so imo no point learning ju...
Shock222 General discussion 85 26,691 2012-05-31, 12:05 am
    Thread: Do u guys who knows chinese read kanji in chinese??
Post: Do u guys who knows chinese read kanji in chinese?...

I formerly studies chinese(simplified) for 10 years as my mother tongue and speak cantonese at home. As i still don't know the actual reading of the kanji in japanese, when i encounter kanji(mostly in...
Shock222 Remembering the Kanji 2 1,486 2012-05-15, 9:32 am
    Thread: skipping kanji in rtk1??
Post: skipping kanji in rtk1??

I skip quite a number of kanjis as well, usually those that i feel i will hardly be using them. I am at 1020 now, and my guess is i skipped about 50. Some comes back much later as a primitive such as ...
Shock222 Remembering the Kanji 13 4,415 2012-05-15, 8:54 am