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    Thread: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year.
Post: The key to fluency: 10,000 words in one year.

The main point in this entire discussion is not the question of SRSing or not, but rather whether the usual spacing is optimal or not. Somewhere in this threat someone said he'd increase the default s...
matsu General discussion 249 67,248 2013-03-02, 11:45 pm
    Thread: Tower of Babelfish Language Learning Method
Post: Tower of Babelfish Language Learning Method

@shinsen I thought that this, what you call bullet points, sums up to a pretty concise method for studying foreign languages. But I fully agree, I also don’t think that Gethin considered the extra hu...
matsu Learning resources 29 8,770 2012-07-08, 4:49 am
    Thread: Tower of Babelfish Language Learning Method
Post: Tower of Babelfish Language Learning Method

JimmySeal Wrote:nadiatims Wrote:I just really don't get this no translation language puritan approach you occasionally come across online. Amorey Gethin and David Bond provide a pretty convincing argu...
matsu Learning resources 29 8,770 2012-07-08, 1:05 am
    Thread: my company wants us to improve Japanese
Post: my company wants us to improve Japanese

If your company is really serious about Japanese, they need to have Japanese language ability (measured by JLPT levels or similar) as part of your performance evaluation. This needs to have a clear in...
matsu Off topic 24 5,939 2011-06-10, 9:39 pm
    Thread: kanji amnesia post from Tofugu(have I wasted my time?)
Post: kanji amnesia post from Tofugu(have I wasted my ti...

KMDES Wrote:Also I've been keeping a blog about stuff I do at KM's Japanese Blog Thank's for the link. Very interesting, please keep on updating.
matsu The Japanese language 56 12,158 2011-04-01, 4:02 am
    Thread: kanji amnesia post from Tofugu(have I wasted my time?)
Post: kanji amnesia post from Tofugu(have I wasted my ti...

KMDES Wrote:I have been keeping a mostly detailed log of my attempts and wrote up a tutorial of how my system works and how to use it. It's also 5.5 pages long, which makes it too much effort to read ...
matsu The Japanese language 56 12,158 2011-03-31, 3:20 am
    Thread: NYT Plan To Charge People Money For Services Called Bold Business Move
Post: NYT Plan To Charge People Money For Services Calle...

It's still cheaper than the online subscription for the Financial Times. Honestly speaking, I think it's OK. I subscribe to the Financial Times online, using it through their extremely well designed ...
matsu Off topic 25 3,422 2011-03-28, 10:32 pm
    Thread: Anyone with good experience using mind maps for Japanese studies?
Post: Anyone with good experience using mind maps for Ja...

Does anyone use mind maps to learn Japanese? Anyone who combined mind maps with SRS? I believe I am a visual learner, so I had good experiences with Mind Maps at school, but I have not yet come up wi...
matsu The Japanese language 1 666 2011-03-23, 10:20 pm
    Thread: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011
Post: Earthquake in Japan March 11th 2011

Was this mentioned already? It's a bit old though (3/16), but nevertheless informative. http://online.itp.ucsb.edu/online/plecture/bmonreal11/ I haven't listened to the lecture itself, but the PDF f...
matsu Off topic 690 113,345 2011-03-18, 11:18 pm
    Thread: Restart or Review?
Post: Restart or Review?

I've been in a very similar situation (twice meanwhile, shame on me), I just had a larger pile of open reviews. Same as you, I asked here for tips. I found one tip particularly helpful: Go for a ver...
matsu Remembering the Kanji 38 9,058 2011-03-13, 10:58 pm
    Thread: Joining Air Force for Abroad Opportunities?
Post: Joining Air Force for Abroad Opportunities?

As a start I would like to state that I did not join the military, so I do not speak from an insider position. I do not support killing people and I am not a supporter of war. However, I believe the m...
matsu Off topic 65 13,930 2011-02-18, 9:19 am
    Thread: Learning new cards with Anki 1.2
Post: Learning new cards with Anki 1.2

sorry to bring this up from the dead, but I thought I'd forward a tip mmbradle recently posted on Anki's forum: "If I understand the problem you are having, it is not that reviews don't get schedule...
matsu The Japanese language 12 4,042 2011-02-02, 7:54 am
    Thread: Learning new cards with Anki 1.2
Post: Learning new cards with Anki 1.2

Daichi Wrote:Well actually, everything is the same for me, I have a duplicate separate deck I use for learning from, that has "cramming" intervals. When I'm done learning from my cramming deck, I just...
matsu The Japanese language 12 4,042 2011-01-21, 9:14 pm
    Thread: Learning new cards with Anki 1.2
Post: Learning new cards with Anki 1.2

A while ago someone posted the Anki settings for a separate learning deck that somewhat simulated the settings of a cramming deck. I found that very useful, it worked well for me. After the upgrade t...
matsu The Japanese language 12 4,042 2011-01-21, 8:57 am
    Thread: Christmas Donations for Fabrice
Post: Christmas Donations for Fabrice

25 EUR from my side. Fabrice, thank you so much for all your work.
matsu Off topic 393 86,431 2010-12-12, 8:00 am
    Thread: 1800 overdue RTK1 cards – start all over again or ignore RTK1 for now?
Post: 1800 overdue RTK1 cards – start all over again or ...

Wow, never expected so many well meaning advices. Thanks to all of you. I have to say that I tend to side with Mezbup’s opinion since switching to KO now would help me to escape from this huge pile o...
matsu The Japanese language 14 2,447 2009-12-22, 7:43 am
    Thread: 1800 overdue RTK1 cards – start all over again or ignore RTK1 for now?
Post: 1800 overdue RTK1 cards – start all over again or ...

A couple of month ago I “finished” RTK1. Due to some unavoidable issues I couldn’t continue up with my reviews for several months now. Consequently I now have about 1800 overdue cards. I see the foll...
matsu The Japanese language 14 2,447 2009-12-21, 7:30 am