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    Thread: 1Q84/Haruki Murakami
Post: 1Q84/Haruki Murakami

Somehow I got the impression that the first two books were supposed to be a complete story. Evidently, that was wrong.
Serge Learning resources 42 12,828 2009-12-29, 2:51 am
    Thread: 1Q84/Haruki Murakami
Post: 1Q84/Haruki Murakami

I read 1Q84 when it came out this summer because of its novelty value and have even written about it somewhere on this forum. I have never been a fan of Murakami, actively dislike all of his character...
Serge Learning resources 42 12,828 2009-12-28, 10:42 pm
    Thread: AJATT : The dark side
Post: AJATT : The dark side

Yonosa Wrote:Way too much preaching on these forums as of late. I' glad I don't frequent so often nowadays. Second that
Serge General discussion 55 12,426 2009-12-28, 10:33 pm
    Thread: SRS sucks!
Post: SRS sucks!

igordesu Wrote:Hahaha, I had to laugh at that. But, on a more serious note, Serge, how would you evaluate your progress since you stopped SRSing? See, just as I told you - laughs! :-) Anyway, progress...
Serge Learning resources 111 18,058 2009-10-21, 10:21 pm
    Thread: SRS sucks!
Post: SRS sucks!

Months ago, when I posted in the Personal Achievements thread that I had stopped SRSing (for all the reasons mentioned by Mafried), all I got was some laughs. Good to see there is some healthy debate ...
Serge Learning resources 111 18,058 2009-10-20, 9:32 pm
    Thread: What is most essential to your studying?
Post: What is most essential to your studying?

blackmacros Wrote:How is 1Q84? Is it enjoyable? I keep thinking of getting it, but I'm put off by the fact that it appears to be 3 very very large tomes. 2 very very large tomes. About 1,050 pages in ...
Serge Learning resources 23 4,340 2009-09-04, 8:35 pm
    Thread: What is most essential to your studying?
Post: What is most essential to your studying?

Nuriko Wrote:Aside from the obvious things like listening, reading manga, watching shows and SRS-ing (or anything else really general), what is it that you are doing or have done that you think, if no...
Serge Learning resources 23 4,340 2009-09-01, 7:32 am
    Thread: Yonosa's in Shanghai! Are you!?
Post: Yonosa's in Shanghai! Are you!?

Tobberoth Wrote:Looking forward to checking out the Bund. It's completely closed off and being renovated for the Expo next year.
Serge General discussion 6 1,068 2009-08-27, 9:24 pm
    Thread: Good Chinese Resources?
Post: Good Chinese Resources?

Chinese Pod is still the best...
Serge Chinese and Hanzi 9 5,017 2009-08-25, 11:46 pm
    Thread: RTH, pinyin and srs
Post: RTH, pinyin and srs

simple Wrote:I am just wondering who on this forum has learnt the readings along with writings of the hanzi and whether you think this was advantageous. Also, whether you learnt just one reading per ...
Serge Chinese and Hanzi 4 1,268 2009-08-12, 10:55 pm
    Thread: "Tones", how I changed the way I think about Chinese "tones".*TV LINKS
Post: "Tones", how I changed the way I think about Chine...

Yonosa Wrote:I don't even think that makes sense, but it has really helped me to pick things out in Chinese, and it pronunciation is a lot better already So do Chinese people have any trouble understa...
Serge Chinese and Hanzi 22 4,373 2009-07-14, 12:56 am
    Thread: How to tell the Difference between Cantonese and Mandarin
Post: How to tell the Difference between Cantonese and M...

Cantonese sounds like a record played backwards.
Serge Off topic 17 9,035 2009-07-07, 8:09 pm
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

Tobberoth Wrote:Life is indeed to short. Which is why you should use an SRS to learn a language WAY faster, so you can use it instead of learning it for decades. So are you suggesting I should stop us...
Serge General discussion 1,389 294,118 2009-07-01, 7:52 pm
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

Gave up SRS altogether. Life is too short and time's better spent reading, watching, listening and talking to people.
Serge General discussion 1,389 294,118 2009-07-01, 7:10 am
    Thread: Learning Simplified Hanzi after RTK
Post: Learning Simplified Hanzi after RTK

welldone101 Wrote:Imposing your value system on it is the same kind of snobby, looking down upon that usually stymies education reform. You even ended in Latin, beautiful. We aim to please and any co...
Serge Chinese and Hanzi 53 43,425 2009-06-26, 3:19 am
    Thread: Learning Simplified Hanzi after RTK
Post: Learning Simplified Hanzi after RTK

welldone101 Wrote:Mr. Heisig points out in his intro that this was his personal "i wanna learn shapes in a month" method that he was requested to publish, so he did. He was not an author writing a bo...
Serge Chinese and Hanzi 53 43,425 2009-06-25, 11:18 pm
    Thread: Learning Simplified Hanzi after RTK
Post: Learning Simplified Hanzi after RTK

transalpin Wrote:The good thing about the Heisig method is, he generally ignores the historical development. Take the character 必, for example. A heart with a stroke, right? Wrong. The original compon...
Serge Chinese and Hanzi 53 43,425 2009-06-25, 3:35 am
    Thread: The Apple Thread
Post: The Apple Thread

thermal Wrote:Yep, it's called "Dictionary". You will probably need to go to the settings and choose the J-J and or J-E dictionary, otherwise they won't come up. It's really good. ...and expandable to...
Serge Learning resources 13 1,720 2009-06-23, 11:50 pm
    Thread: "Military time"
Post: "Military time"

Shirow66 Wrote:I have no idea, but wouldn't it be wonderful if the whole world used the logical 24 hour time system instead of the stupid confusing AM-PM crap? 100% agree! :-) Wally Wrote:Interesting...
Serge General discussion 30 8,453 2009-06-11, 8:14 pm
    Thread: Snow Leopard...
Post: Snow Leopard...

The only reason I upgraded to 10.5 was to be able to run its Dictionary application with the Japanese dictionaries and add a custom Chinese dictionary to it. My 4 year-old Powerbook probably won't han...
Serge General discussion 46 10,167 2009-06-11, 7:57 pm
    Thread: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application?
Post: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application?

Jarvik7 Wrote:Serge Wrote:My bad. What I meant to say was that there were 265 Japanese-related decks and from what I can remember nearly 400 Chinese-related ones, including most if not all of the stuf...
Serge Off topic 127 19,202 2009-06-03, 3:36 am
    Thread: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application?
Post: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application?

Jarvik7 Wrote:2: Most of which probably have no interest to me :P Most of the Anki premade decks on the wiki have relevance to what I do (Japanese/Chinese/etc) My bad. What I meant to say was that the...
Serge Off topic 127 19,202 2009-06-03, 1:14 am
    Thread: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application?
Post: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application?

Jarvik7 Wrote:1. not free (dunno if the iphone app is free) 2. not widely supported by the community (plugins and premade decks) 3. no automatic kana or pinyin generation 4. not multiplatform, I never...
Serge Off topic 127 19,202 2009-06-02, 8:36 pm
    Thread: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application?
Post: How do you imagine the perfect SRS application?

Off-topic: am I the only one to see some striking similarities between this thread and "if you had to convince someone Japan is the best place in the world..."?!.. :-))) On-topic: I'm a Mac user, I'v...
Serge Off topic 127 19,202 2009-06-01, 12:27 am
    Thread: Japanese Reading Materials
Post: Japanese Reading Materials

Thora Wrote:Serge Wrote:So is anyone reading the new Murakami's book "1Q84" yet? :-) I picked up volume one during lunch break this afternoon and started the first chapter. I'm not a Murakami fan and ...
Serge Learning resources 75 19,143 2009-05-31, 11:41 pm
    Thread: Japanese Reading Materials
Post: Japanese Reading Materials

So is anyone reading the new Murakami's book "1Q84" yet? :-) I picked up volume one during lunch break this afternoon and started the first chapter. I'm not a Murakami fan and am pretty certain I'll ...
Serge Learning resources 75 19,143 2009-05-27, 11:36 pm
    Thread: iFlash for iPhone
Post: iFlash for iPhone

In case there are still people here who, like myself, are not using Anki, you might want to know that iFlash has finally been released for iPhone/iPod! Good points: - synchronizes all decks through a...
Serge Learning resources 0 942 2009-05-26, 8:02 pm
    Thread: The Discouragement Thread
Post: The Discouragement Thread

Virtua_Leaf Wrote:- seeing Japanese themes in mainstream media. Causes 'get off my turf!' kinda crap This seems to be generic to most people interested in Asia and has been described as 'Marco Polo sy...
Serge Off topic 311 69,093 2009-05-10, 9:38 pm
    Thread: Small texts with translation about cultural diferences
Post: Small texts with translation about cultural difere...

Really sweet little stories. The one on "I love you" is great. The daily usage of this phrase sounds strange even to Europeans...
Serge Learning resources 4 956 2009-04-27, 11:37 pm
    Thread: Explanatory Kanji Dictionaries
Post: Explanatory Kanji Dictionaries

MeisterLlama Wrote:Are there any good free, online Kanji dictionaries that actually go through and explain the meanings of a character instead of just providing a list of possibly misleading single wo...
Serge Remembering the Kanji 7 1,438 2009-04-26, 8:34 pm