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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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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