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    Thread: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2
Post: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2

I would appreciate that. If you can export to .csv, I might be able to convert it for Anki.
Hyland1 Remembering the Kanji 18 9,272 2011-05-10, 10:23 pm
    Thread: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2
Post: The ばか's Guide To RTK 2

gibosi Wrote:I decided to use RTK2 to kill two birds with one stone: build vocabulary and learn the onyomi. I took the RTK2 example words and threw them into SRS. And for each reading I would try to...
Hyland1 Remembering the Kanji 18 9,272 2011-05-09, 10:29 pm
    Thread: Making the switch to Japanese key words.
Post: Making the switch to Japanese key words.

At fabrice: Yeah, the title is misleading, sorry about that. As for RTK2, I hate it. That's just me. If it works for you, great. But I let it gather dust on my shelf. I write the kanji like in the ex...
Hyland1 Learning resources 8 3,358 2007-07-11, 9:29 am
    Thread: Making the switch to Japanese key words.
Post: Making the switch to Japanese key words.

This sounds odd, but I am confused by your confusion radical tyro. I don't see how learning over 4,000 kanji compounds (avg. 2 per kanji) could NOT be good for my Japanese.I am not replacing the Engli...
Hyland1 Learning resources 8 3,358 2007-07-11, 4:35 am
    Thread: Making the switch to Japanese key words.
Post: Making the switch to Japanese key words.

Over the last month or two I've been slowly switching my keywords to Japanese. With so many people having memorized the RTK1 Kanji now, it seems likely that more people will start traveling down this...
Hyland1 Learning resources 8 3,358 2007-07-10, 7:23 pm
    Thread: do you enjoy ALTing?
Post: do you enjoy ALTing?

Synewave: Apologies, edited.
Hyland1 Off topic 24 5,135 2007-07-05, 11:46 pm
    Thread: do you enjoy ALTing?
Post: do you enjoy ALTing?

Hyland1 Wrote:I was a CIR, now I am (one of) the last of the SPAs. Last of the spaz? Probably not, but what does it stand for? SPA= Specialist Prefectural Advisor. It is basically PA/CIR work, with th...
Hyland1 Off topic 24 5,135 2007-07-05, 8:34 pm
    Thread: do you enjoy ALTing?
Post: do you enjoy ALTing?

I was a CIR, now I am (one of) the last of the SPAs. While I can't speak from personal ALT experience I can say my JETs that want to be in elementary schools and get placed there are almost always mor...
Hyland1 Off topic 24 5,135 2007-07-04, 6:37 am
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

Resolve, excellent program. Very clean and easy to use. On another note, does anyone have any 1kyuu or higher decks? I would love to get them if possible.
Hyland1 Learning resources 999 230,437 2007-06-05, 6:07 am
    Thread: Help! Greasemonkey ate my "learned" button!
Post: Help! Greasemonkey ate my "learned" button!

Kieron and Daniel- It worked! Thank you both, you saved me quite a bit of anxiety and hassle. If your ever in Nagoya first beer is on me.
Hyland1 General discussion 12 4,966 2007-06-05, 3:31 am
    Thread: Help! Greasemonkey ate my "learned" button!
Post: Help! Greasemonkey ate my "learned" button!

Daniel- Thank you for taking the time to reply. I am in the office so I can't make an attempt to fix the problem right now, but I will as soon as I get home and truly appreciate your help. One thing,...
Hyland1 General discussion 12 4,966 2007-06-04, 7:54 pm
    Thread: Help! Greasemonkey ate my "learned" button!
Post: Help! Greasemonkey ate my "learned" button!

Hey. I took Kieron's advice and disabled line breaks. When I popped over to the study section all my words had reverted to English, ie no substitute keywords. I checked in the greasemonkey settings an...
Hyland1 General discussion 12 4,966 2007-06-04, 5:41 pm
    Thread: Help! Greasemonkey ate my "learned" button!
Post: Help! Greasemonkey ate my "learned" button!

I've been using the greasemonkey scripts (Copy Story, Links, Change Font, Line breaks, Change Keyword) since they first came out without any problem. Well, change font never worked on my mac, but that...
Hyland1 General discussion 12 4,966 2007-06-04, 5:39 am
    Thread: Japanese in Japanese
Post: Japanese in Japanese

I was giving a speech to some Japanese people and explaining how I learn kanji. I put octopus and owl(both REALLY easy with RTK) on the screen and explained why they were easy for me, even though some...
Hyland1 General discussion 3 1,236 2007-05-30, 5:58 pm
    Thread: Most difficult part
Post: Most difficult part

The hardest part for me was the realization that even though I'm "finished" (for the second time) I was going to have to keep on doing them, over and over, or lose them. I'm slowly switching out all o...
Hyland1 Remembering the Kanji 10 2,247 2007-05-25, 6:54 am
    Thread: What you reading?
Post: What you reading?

Two great books for study: The Japanese Written Word: A Unique Reader by Glenn Melchinger and Helene Kasha and Breaking into Japanese Literature by Giles Murray. The 2nd one is great for RTKers be...
Hyland1 General discussion 68 17,660 2007-05-23, 5:56 am
    Thread: Anybody doing calligraphy ? 書道 ?
Post: Anybody doing calligraphy ? 書道 ?

I worked in a Japanese city hall for a few years. Foreigners without Kanji were not allowed to use kanji on their official hanko. Chinese, second generation Japanese, Koreans) could, but it seemed lik...
Hyland1 The Japanese language 28 14,003 2007-03-09, 8:55 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Benefit? Maybe a little, hard to say. If "knowing how to write" means having completed RTK1 (only) then no, very little. You need to be able to use compounds, have the nuance of a kanji, etc. Like I m...
Hyland1 Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,599 2006-12-20, 7:20 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Just added card 2042. I started studying with this homepage on 13-09-2006. So it took me something like 3+ months. I had done the book before with paper flashcards and a different software program but...
Hyland1 Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,599 2006-12-20, 2:09 am
    Thread: RTK 2: 適当な熟語 (relevent compounds)
Post: RTK 2: 適当な熟語 (relevent compounds)

Sorry, I was out of town for a few days. I am going to jump over, see how the yahoo group works and then post a few sentences from the book I want to use (日本語分野別 重要単語1500). Best to everybody Hyland
Hyland1 Remembering the Kanji 18 8,631 2006-12-16, 3:17 am
    Thread: RTK 2: 適当な熟語 (relevent compounds)
Post: RTK 2: 適当な熟語 (relevent compounds)

Ok, all sounds good to me. Two final points. 1) The holidays are upon us. I am going back to the states for xmas/new years so won't be able to do any serious work till early January. and 2) Example ...
Hyland1 Remembering the Kanji 18 8,631 2006-12-14, 12:58 am
    Thread: Going primitive
Post: Going primitive

I never had problems with that particular primitive but I did have problems with a kanji it appears in, 従. I worked backwards and decided to make the primitive something memorable to help me with this...
Hyland1 Remembering the Kanji 5 2,365 2006-12-14, 12:47 am
    Thread: RTK 2: 適当な熟語 (relevent compounds)
Post: RTK 2: 適当な熟語 (relevent compounds)

Great. First, some questions. 1)Can I get that excel file from you? 2) If we build on that file will it be easy to convert it to a file that can be used by stackz or some other flashcard program? 3) D...
Hyland1 Remembering the Kanji 18 8,631 2006-12-13, 9:43 pm
    Thread: Vocabulary Software
Post: Vocabulary Software

Thanks laxxy, I appreciate the help. Ill take a look.
Hyland1 Learning resources 57 17,048 2006-12-13, 7:33 pm
    Thread: RTK 2: 適当な熟語 (relevent compounds)
Post: RTK 2: 適当な熟語 (relevent compounds)

I'd love to be involved with making such a list. The idea of memorizing pronunciations for kanji outside of a compound that actually has that pronunciation seems like a bad idea to me. Though of cours...
Hyland1 Remembering the Kanji 18 8,631 2006-12-13, 7:03 pm
    Thread: words from the finished
Post: words from the finished

I think your answer is already there. Start doing 10 a day, everyday. I'm sure you'll get lots of opinions but it really just boils down to that. I also recommend that you start soon. I finished rtk 1...
Hyland1 Remembering the Kanji 5 1,662 2006-12-07, 8:49 am
    Thread: Your Favorite Katakana word
Post: Your Favorite Katakana word

ラブラブ Love Love It is used just as "lovey dovey" is used in the states. Look at how lovey-dovey they are! あの二人はラブラブだよね。
Hyland1 General discussion 10 3,315 2006-11-29, 11:24 pm
    Thread: Your Favorite Katakana word
Post: Your Favorite Katakana word

ラブラブ
Hyland1 General discussion 10 3,315 2006-11-29, 7:11 pm
    Thread: Eliminating the need for English keywords - help needed
Post: Eliminating the need for English keywords - help n...

I have two questions: Could we possibly implement grease monkey so that when you pass your mouse over the keyword (in English) the Japanese pops up? That way the system wont affect the clean look of...
Hyland1 Remembering the Kanji 42 12,708 2006-11-25, 8:33 pm
    Thread: Reviewing the Kanji landed me a job!!
Post: Reviewing the Kanji landed me a job!!

taijuando Wrote:How does an ALT work? Do you have to plan with your teacher or do you just show up? What is your time commitment going to be? I'm thinking of moving to Japan with my wife so I am in...
Hyland1 Remembering the Kanji 12 4,799 2006-11-18, 7:37 pm