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    Thread: The 1,000+ Expired Cards Club
Post: The 1,000+ Expired Cards Club

My fail pile is already 720, but I've got the expired cards down to almost 1300. I'm just racing through them instead of racking my brains for minutes per kanji. I'm going to take my time when I go ...
Mighty_Matt General discussion 48 12,389 2009-07-06, 10:47 am
    Thread: The 1,000+ Expired Cards Club
Post: The 1,000+ Expired Cards Club

I've only just come back to this site after a year of not studying. I had completed RTK1 and had 1800-1900 in the fourth box, but now I have about 1700 expired cards :( I was thinking about just ign...
Mighty_Matt General discussion 48 12,389 2009-07-06, 8:23 am
    Thread: I haven't reviewed for over a week...help!
Post: I haven't reviewed for over a week...help!

I know the feeling. Due to a new job, moving house etc, I've fallen out of my Japanese study habit and after about 10 weeks I'm up to 600 kanji and about 500 sentences to review. It worries me that ...
Mighty_Matt General discussion 20 2,857 2008-09-21, 6:13 am
    Thread: Research on Sebastian Leitner and Spaced Repetition Systems
Post: Research on Sebastian Leitner and Spaced Repetitio...

Again I can't help with any links, but I do remember reading articles on the topic where students were asked to learn pairs of random collections of letters. The groups had different repetition rates...
Mighty_Matt General discussion 5 1,781 2008-09-05, 10:56 am
    Thread: Essential Resources
Post: Essential Resources

Okonomiyaki Wrote:I know these books get a lot of criticisms for their use of romaji, not having much vocab and for being a bit old, but I think Mari Noda and Eleanor Harz Jorden's Japanese: The Spoke...
Mighty_Matt Learning resources 100 133,536 2008-04-23, 5:57 pm
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

Dragg Wrote:I also want to point out that I believe that Khatzu's prioritization of input over output to be deeply flawed. He claims that people shouldn't try to speak Japanese until they feel ready....
Mighty_Matt General discussion 1,517 595,029 2008-04-03, 2:06 am
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

Yeah, it seems strange to loose the subjects all the time, but if you think about how we use 'it' in English it's kinda the same. We replace things with 'it' the Japanese just drop it. Obviously in ...
Mighty_Matt General discussion 1,517 595,029 2008-03-05, 1:57 am
    Thread: Who Introduced you to Heisig?
Post: Who Introduced you to Heisig?

When I decided to come teach English in Japan I got all gung-ho about learning Japanese and so spent a while trawling the net looking for good books etc. I would have come across the name Heisig some...
Mighty_Matt General discussion 47 13,183 2008-02-26, 2:17 am
    Thread: Why so many political stories?
Post: Why so many political stories?

This was always going to end up an issue with sharing stories. Hesig says to make the stories as crazy as possible to help remember them and so people are going to use people and things that really s...
Mighty_Matt Remembering the Kanji 23 4,489 2008-02-20, 8:35 pm
    Thread: On average how much time do you devote a day?
Post: On average how much time do you devote a day?

Not enough at the moment :( I'm doing between 60 and 90 minutes at the moment, but I'm only just keeping on top of my expired cards... I'm thinking I'll have to just keep Anki open during the day and...
Mighty_Matt General discussion 14 2,660 2008-02-19, 8:12 pm
    Thread: It's going down in つくば
Post: It's going down in つくば

johnzep Wrote:First an Ibaraki English teacher got busted with pot, now someone gets robbed in Tsukuba. Ibaraki is going to hell in a handbasket! As for my whereabouts, I was taking Yorkii's picture...
Mighty_Matt Off topic 6 2,924 2008-02-19, 2:20 am
    Thread: Monolinguals
Post: Monolinguals

I remember reading somewhere on my internet travels that the reason monolinguals struggle more to learn a second language is because your native language words and the concepts are so strongly linked ...
Mighty_Matt General discussion 37 6,478 2008-02-07, 8:34 pm
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

Jarvik7 Wrote:Nope, that is the dictionary application built into OSX. It has E-E, J-J, J-E, English thesaurus, dictionary of Apple terms, and Wikipedia. But I'm sure that Apple must have taken all of...
Mighty_Matt General discussion 1,517 595,029 2008-02-06, 11:59 pm
    Thread: The next great junior high school fad?!?!
Post: The next great junior high school fad?!?!

I thought this picture off the OPs link was 'interesting'. Just in case you hadn't noticed the 'bulge' :| http://another.homeon.jp/images/mokkosi_2_thumb.jpg
Mighty_Matt General discussion 11 2,494 2008-01-29, 2:14 am
    Thread: HOW TO SPEAK?
Post: HOW TO SPEAK?

As far as I'm aware, this is the first pointless argument. These things are inevitable on forums, and you could see it as a good thing, as it means the site and forum are growing :) And just remembe...
Mighty_Matt General discussion 11 2,081 2008-01-29, 2:12 am
    Thread: Buying new laptop. Opinions please.
Post: Buying new laptop. Opinions please.

So, before I leave Japan in March, I?m thinking of getting one of the new TZ series to replace my aged TR. The TR has served me well for many years, and has been my only PC for the last two, but the ...
Mighty_Matt Off topic 1 863 2008-01-27, 10:05 am
    Thread: Buying new laptop. Opinions please.
Post: Buying new laptop. Opinions please.

So, before I leave Japan in March, I?m thinking of getting one of the new TZ series to replace my aged TR. The TR has served me well for many years, and has been my only PC for the last two, but the ...
Mighty_Matt Off topic 0 566 2008-01-27, 10:03 am
    Thread: Buying new laptop. Opinions please.
Post: Buying new laptop. Opinions please.

So, before I leave Japan in March, I?m thinking of getting one of the new TZ series to replace my aged TR. The TR has served me well for many years, and has been my only PC for the last two, but the ...
Mighty_Matt Off topic 0 635 2008-01-27, 10:03 am
    Thread: Buying new laptop... advice please
Post: Buying new laptop... advice please

So, before I leave Japan in March, I?m thinking of getting one of the new TZ series to replace my aged TR. The TR has served me well for many years, and has been my only PC for the last two, but the ...
Mighty_Matt Off topic 0 597 2008-01-27, 10:02 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

I'm actually pretty happy at realizing that 90% is 1838 kanji too. I was actually almost at 2000 before christmas, but then didn't do any reviews for two weeks (I know, I know) and had 500 to do when...
Mighty_Matt Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,379 2008-01-26, 10:40 am
    Thread: Taking Japanese keitai to the UK...
Post: Taking Japanese keitai to the UK...

Well I can report that it did work. At first the phone complained that it was network locked, but some research online found a code which disabled that allowing me to use a UK O2 sim card in the phon...
Mighty_Matt Off topic 7 3,057 2008-01-26, 10:34 am
    Thread: Kanji Games for the Nintendo DS
Post: Kanji Games for the Nintendo DS

The Sanseido online dictionary (http://www.sanseido.net/) also keeps a history of about 10 lookups on the right of the window. So, you could in theory do a similar thing if you wanted to. This would...
Mighty_Matt Learning resources 231 128,168 2008-01-25, 2:15 am
    Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports)
Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports)

Transtic Wrote:For Nukemarine: Go to Edit -> Edit Deck then select your cards, use right click and choose For each fact -> Add Missing Active Cards ARGH, now I have 740 cards to work through!! ...
Mighty_Matt Learning resources 309 61,723 2008-01-24, 2:14 am
    Thread: Wikipedia in Japanese (ウィキペディア)
Post: Wikipedia in Japanese (ウィキペディア)

There's a thread about those annoying Katakana combinations already: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?pid=9237#pid9237
Mighty_Matt General discussion 35 7,119 2008-01-22, 11:03 pm
    Thread: Quick question about kanji chains
Post: Quick question about kanji chains

Well I think the only thing people can agree on is that no one method works for everyone. Perhaps the chains work better for people who are visual learners, instead of aural or kinetic. If you've tr...
Mighty_Matt General discussion 3 1,263 2008-01-21, 1:58 am
    Thread: Practical uses for Kan Ken (for us)
Post: Practical uses for Kan Ken (for us)

I guess it's similar to taking the JLPT. From what I understand, level 4 and 3 won't really help you that much in getting a job in Japan as most companies will require level 2 or 1. In that way, the...
Mighty_Matt JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 3 1,933 2008-01-14, 11:30 pm
    Thread: Taking Japanese keitai to the UK...
Post: Taking Japanese keitai to the UK...

I know mine has a SIM card as I put it in when I first got the phone (and I just checked!). I remember trying my old UK sim card, but that didn't work. Either because it was a different network, or ...
Mighty_Matt Off topic 7 3,057 2007-12-21, 1:10 am
    Thread: Taking Japanese keitai to the UK...
Post: Taking Japanese keitai to the UK...

Slim chance anyone will know the answer to this but... I'm going back to the UK for Christmas (yey) and am taking my Softbank keitai with me as it will work over there. Last time I went home it cost...
Mighty_Matt Off topic 7 3,057 2007-12-20, 10:03 am
    Thread: What's the reading for this...
Post: What's the reading for this...

Thanks for those replies. I have a copy of Making Sense of Japanese. I read it when I bought it, but that was when I just starting with Japanese. When you started talking about emphasizing things...
Mighty_Matt General discussion 4 1,332 2007-12-19, 11:17 pm
    Thread: What's the reading for this...
Post: What's the reading for this...

A text book I'm using for grammar example sentences has this: 飛行機で三時間は掛かりますよ。 It will take at least three hours by plane. The key point is は but it doesn't say if this is [ha] or [wa]. I would gues...
Mighty_Matt General discussion 4 1,332 2007-12-19, 12:12 am