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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
