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Thread: Anyway to restore a deck that Anki deleted? Post: Anyway to restore a deck that Anki deleted? A few months ago I was finishing up my reviews and instead of suspending my cards I deleted every card, then closed the deck. (I custom suspend by tags to review only certain groups of cards.) This ca... |
oregum | Learning resources | 12 | 14,811 | 2012-05-02, 7:46 am | ||
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Thread: Don't know what to do.... Post: Don't know what to do.... Well... I'm 27, broke, job-less, car-less, back home, living with my mother and her husband, and I have less then $500 to my name. I went to school, got a degree in Marketing & Entrepreneurshi... |
oregum | Off topic | 108 | 19,491 | 2012-04-05, 9:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Are some people just good at learning a new language? Post: Are some people just good at learning a new langua... From my experience there are people who have a predisposition to language study. Nonetheless, I think your post is lumping a few different issues together. Study in home vs foreign country: Take Amer... |
oregum | General discussion | 29 | 5,569 | 2012-04-03, 1:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Can I re-review kanji I already reviewed for the day? Post: Can I re-review kanji I already reviewed for the d... There's no point really. The algorithm isn't perfect, but the idea is to review only the cards you will forget soon. By reviewing early your are doing the equivalent of non SRS flash cards. Like othe... |
oregum | Remembering the Kanji | 11 | 3,818 | 2012-03-21, 8:44 am | ||
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Thread: Is the food at 7-11 safe? Post: Is the food at 7-11 safe? Yup you're good to go. 7-11, am-pm, Lawson were part of my diet. Don't remember room temperature pizza and hotdogs, but these two foods were pretty horrible in Japan to begin with so I prolly just ig... |
oregum | Off topic | 26 | 5,258 | 2012-03-17, 3:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Why am I learning japanese again? Post: Why am I learning japanese again? I've been interested in foreign languages and cultures since high school (hs was while ago for me). Although, not interested enough to actually study a language. Not that I wanted to study anything at... |
oregum | General discussion | 12 | 3,164 | 2012-03-16, 12:45 pm | ||
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Thread: MCD's? Post: MCD's? I'm with you Chris, sentences that I've added weeks or months ago have long lost their context. Back when I had a few hundred sentence in total, I still remembered context, took my time to analyze th... |
oregum | Learning resources | 59 | 23,596 | 2012-03-14, 8:42 am | ||
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Thread: MCD's? Post: MCD's? I think making MCD is not worth the effort. I've been timing myself and I'm reviewing sentences at a rate of over 300/hr. Most of my sentences have various degrees of English in the answer field, rang... |
oregum | Learning resources | 59 | 23,596 | 2012-03-12, 9:38 am | ||
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Thread: Martial Arts Post: Martial Arts I took Miyama Ryu Jujitsu years ago. Half the class was cops, some of who where women. Based on my personal experience this is the most practical martial art. Even now if someone grabs me I can instin... |
oregum | General discussion | 49 | 8,515 | 2012-03-06, 7:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group Post: Japanese Harry Potter - Study Group I shadow read HP 1/2 along with the audio book some time ago. However, these books are bit difficult, and reading them before upper intermediate level will take far to long imo. At the same time I wa... |
oregum | Group study | 50 | 25,239 | 2012-03-06, 2:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Internet Goes On Strike Post: Internet Goes On Strike KanjiDevourer Wrote:Due to law action by the MPAA, Megaupload.com has now been taken down! I find it all pretty worrisome. I just saw this myself and it made me sad. They even had that snazzy intro vi... |
oregum | Off topic | 176 | 19,770 | 2012-01-19, 5:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Internet Goes On Strike Post: Internet Goes On Strike I needed to look up something on wiki today, but it was blocked. Damn protesters, always complaining about somin or other. I just used the cached version. Gotta love free knowledge. |
oregum | Off topic | 176 | 19,770 | 2012-01-18, 1:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Help a Japanese speaker who can't read! Post: Help a Japanese speaker who can't read! Yep I've known a ton of people who are conversationally fluent but can't read worth a nickel. In fact, I've lived with a roommate who lived in Japan for 10 years, learned to speak, got married, but di... |
oregum | General discussion | 36 | 10,413 | 2011-12-19, 2:18 am | ||
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Thread: Learning 2 languages at once Post: Learning 2 languages at once @jordan3311 You should be fine, my point was that it's possible. I was learning 4 for different reasons: Japanese: my first love Russian: maintaining fluency Arabic: for work Spanish: my mistress |
oregum | General discussion | 17 | 2,490 | 2011-11-17, 12:01 am | ||
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Thread: Learning 2 languages at once Post: Learning 2 languages at once It's definitely possible. However in my experience there are two concerns: (1) Time: How much you have and how much you are willing to devote. (2) Enthusiasm: How long until you get bored or burned ou... |
oregum | General discussion | 17 | 2,490 | 2011-11-16, 11:04 pm | ||
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Thread: dubbed movies and T.V. shows Post: dubbed movies and T.V. shows Watching the first season of Prison Break. It's complete unrealistic, not that I've ever been to prison, but entertaining enough to hold my attention. Pretty easy to understand at just above high inte... |
oregum | Learning resources | 11 | 4,003 | 2011-11-11, 11:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Cold fusion break-through? Post: Cold fusion break-through? IceCream Wrote:nadiatims Wrote:Sounds super fishy. On an unrelated note, have any of you heard of expanding earth theory? I hope this is true. It somehow seems much more plausible to me than the stan... |
oregum | Off topic | 44 | 6,607 | 2011-11-08, 8:18 pm | ||
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Thread: A couple of things I've been wondering about Post: A couple of things I've been wondering about If you're interested I found a ton of other content along few American shows dubbed into Japanese on pandora.tv ie prison break http://videonavi.blog66.fc2.com/blog-entry-1001.html You'll need to re... |
oregum | Learning resources | 34 | 5,728 | 2011-11-07, 3:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Beyond RTK3, list of 漢字 to unlock some achievements Post: Beyond RTK3, list of 漢字 to unlock some achievement... KanjiDevourer Wrote:Comparing against tangorin's 2500 most used kanji in newspapers, 50 are in the kanken1 list, but not in Heisig or the beforementioned 'merged list'. Whatever the use... I looked ev... |
oregum | Remembering the Kanji | 51 | 46,394 | 2011-11-06, 10:45 pm | ||
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Thread: 大好き vs. 愛してる Post: 大好き vs. 愛してる The previous posters explained the difference between 大好き・愛してる pretty well. But I think they overlapped the nuance that 愛 carries with 恋。 愛 - universal love (agape) 恋 - romantic love (eros) This goe... |
oregum | The Japanese language | 12 | 6,755 | 2011-11-04, 5:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Best way to learn new vocabulary? Post: Best way to learn new vocabulary? Like rich_f mentioned, you can use the Iversen word list method to get words into short term memory+, then use Anki to get them into long term memory. I can usually get 28 words into STM+ (24-48) hour... |
oregum | The Japanese language | 15 | 7,936 | 2010-08-16, 11:44 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji In Context sentences project Post: Kanji In Context sentences project I have been adding everything from the workbooks with a check-box, and nothing directly from the reference book. So far I have 651 entries from the first 19 chapters. It takes me 1-2 hours to typeup/... |
oregum | Group study | 109 | 61,170 | 2010-08-15, 12:39 am | ||
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Thread: Learning Japanese without Kanjii(reading/writing) Post: Learning Japanese without Kanjii(reading/writing) This sounds very similar to the way i started with Japanese. Except, I decided to learn H/K and ignore kanji. Eventually, I started mixing lots of things up because many things sound the same. That w... |
oregum | The Japanese language | 25 | 11,059 | 2010-08-13, 4:45 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji In Context sentences project Post: Kanji In Context sentences project I thought they finished some time ago... I'm doing KiC atm, entered chapter 17 yesterday. I wanted to finish in 3 months, but it's harder then I expected. Hoping to finish before 12/31/2010. Typing t... |
oregum | Group study | 109 | 61,170 | 2010-08-12, 1:12 pm | ||
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Thread: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog Post: For those interested in a Listening-Reading Blog I figure it's time for an update: After reading about the method here, and on the original forum, I was very curious to see how effective this method is. So far, I've been using this method for 28 da... |
oregum | General discussion | 358 | 75,077 | 2010-08-09, 10:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Thread for cool people who do 100+ a day. 30 kanji people stay out. Post: Thread for cool people who do 100+ a day. 30 kanj... zachandhobbes Wrote:Get out of the way guys, I learned all the Kanji just by listening to Japanese music. Just tried this method, but it wasn't going fast enough. Possibly because some kanji are not t... |
oregum | Remembering the Kanji | 72 | 18,409 | 2010-08-09, 10:57 am | ||
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Thread: Studying Japanese at a Japanese university Post: Studying Japanese at a Japanese university Tobberoth Wrote:What I've heard from several sources is that in general, language schools offer superior education in Japanese. You get more lesson time, faster progression and more effective schoolin... |
oregum | General discussion | 8 | 1,539 | 2010-08-08, 11:33 am | ||
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Thread: Temple University Japan Post: Temple University Japan @shakkun. I also heard some of the higher level classes were better. The near advanced students had the best improvements. I also want to note that, everyone who took advanced classes said they were b... |
oregum | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 23 | 13,318 | 2010-08-08, 11:21 am | ||
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Thread: Studying Japanese at a Japanese university Post: Studying Japanese at a Japanese university I've gone on a few rants about my general disappointment with studying Japanese at a Japanese uni, here is my last rant: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid107738 If you are set on langu... |
oregum | General discussion | 8 | 1,539 | 2010-08-07, 5:53 pm | ||
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Thread: Request: Good Primitive name for "Ten Fields" Post: Request: Good Primitive name for "Ten Fields" REH94 Wrote:"Holy hand grenade" Hahaha, that rocks! Wish I thought of that, when I was doing RtK |
oregum | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 6,460 | 2010-08-06, 10:00 am | ||
