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    Thread: Is it worth learning RTK2's pure groups?
Post: Is it worth learning RTK2's pure groups?

They have been helpful for me when remembering the reading of a kanji compound. I think doing that AJATT sentences and RTK2 are both useful in their own way. The most common pure group readings will h...
jackhuddleston Remembering the Kanji 2 1,540 2008-08-28, 10:42 pm
    Thread: Japanese Cooking -- Resources
Post: Japanese Cooking -- Resources

That dog made me laugh way more than it should've.
jackhuddleston Off topic 2 1,065 2008-08-25, 8:44 pm
    Thread: The Discouragement Thread
Post: The Discouragement Thread

There isn't much use for a lot of English to learn Japanese except out of just having a hobby. I can see people of other native tongues having a particular urgency to learn English because it's a inte...
jackhuddleston Off topic 311 69,132 2008-08-15, 7:13 pm
    Thread: Do RTK1, skip RTK2, do RTK3.
Post: Do RTK1, skip RTK2, do RTK3.

RTK2 is way too boring for anyone to go through quickly. I got burnt out really quickly. You have to use essentially brute memorization for all of if and about 500 frames through, I thought, "In a rea...
jackhuddleston Remembering the Kanji 15 5,689 2008-08-13, 9:44 am
    Thread: The..."What the hell, James...?!" Topic
Post: The..."What the hell, James...?!" Topic

I find it is easier to remember my own stories even if they aren't better than other people's, just because I made them. This is sort of off-topic, but I think that is why Heisig makes some peculiar s...
jackhuddleston Remembering the Kanji 42 9,812 2008-06-09, 4:06 pm
    Thread: RTK II - Puzzled on what to do
Post: RTK II - Puzzled on what to do

I'm going through with RTK2 and I'm not sure if it is just me or it is supposed to be this way... I've gone through 100 frames so far. Should I just be memorizing the 1) Kanji in a compound and the ch...
jackhuddleston Remembering the Kanji 9 3,802 2008-06-09, 3:27 pm
    Thread: Anki + RTK2
Post: Anki + RTK2

I'm a bit confused. Memorizing the compounds which are inside of RTK2 is a less effective way to continue learning after RTK1 than just creating sentences and inferring compound meanings from that? RT...
jackhuddleston Remembering the Kanji 14 7,959 2008-06-07, 3:42 pm
    Thread: Anyone reach fluency?
Post: Anyone reach fluency?

Fluency is when your second or third or whatever language is just as easy to speak as your native. Otherwise it is proficiency.
jackhuddleston General discussion 48 7,105 2008-05-20, 12:14 am
    Thread: What age are you?
Post: What age are you?

18 years old. 2 weeks. I'm on 1100 or so...
jackhuddleston Off topic 357 73,709 2008-05-04, 11:25 pm