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Thread: Similar codewords Post: Similar codewords It helps me to use the keyword in a common phrase or euphemism that contains it to make it unique from similar code words. Like for bag and sack. You could use "bag lunch" in your story ... but "sa... |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 11 | 2,472 | 2006-10-02, 1:29 pm | ||
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Thread: Difficulties in obtaining RTK1 Post: Difficulties in obtaining RTK1 Hopefully in time for xmas! Wow, you got me a RTKII and III. How did you know? |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 2,100 | 2006-09-27, 11:39 am | ||
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Thread: Story contest Post: Story contest I guess the best choices would be the demon kanjis that everyone misses a lot. It would be interesting to see if there is an overall trend of hard to remember kanji. We would need Fab's help to compil... |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 5,259 | 2006-09-14, 10:44 pm | ||
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Thread: Furigana over Kanji on any website! Post: Furigana over Kanji on any website! Wow, you totally opened my eyes to bookmarklets with. I used one before but I never gave it much thought. I looked up some examples on the net and there are a lot of incredible useful ones. Sorry for ... |
scottamus | Learning resources | 21 | 16,218 | 2006-09-12, 12:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Anticipation Plays a Powerful Role in Human Memory Post: Anticipation Plays a Powerful Role in Human Memory I have to say one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen was some site where people had posted pictures of asian women murdering cute little animals by stepping on them while wearing high heels.... |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 3 | 1,731 | 2006-09-10, 9:19 pm | ||
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Thread: Advice needed: any rule for posting stories? Post: Advice needed: any rule for posting stories? I suppose in a perfect world there would be seperate sections for notes, hints, and stories ... but information like "in none of the kanji of RTK1 is head in the left position of the kanji" is very us... |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 4 | 2,910 | 2006-09-09, 11:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Vocab mnemonics Post: Vocab mnemonics 止めを刺す 【とどめをさす】 (exp) to put an end to; to finish by a stab in the neck =Tomato sauce |
scottamus | General discussion | 5 | 4,143 | 2006-09-07, 10:31 am | ||
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Thread: Story contest Post: Story contest Drilling is naughty. Have you tried going back and visualizing the story in your head? Spend at least 5 minutes on each missed kanji and be sure to follow Heisig's steps. Get a nice clear story with t... |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 5,259 | 2006-09-05, 9:34 am | ||
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Thread: Anticipation Plays a Powerful Role in Human Memory Post: Anticipation Plays a Powerful Role in Human Memory http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/523205/ If only we could harness this for remembering kanji. Maybe a disclaimer: "The kanji you are about to study may contain scenes of graphic violence contai... |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 3 | 1,731 | 2006-09-05, 9:29 am | ||
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Thread: Story contest Post: Story contest If competition helps you to learn kanji then it's a good thing. Just don't be consumed by it. Another good competition might be 'most kanji learned this week'. |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 5,259 | 2006-09-04, 9:42 pm | ||
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Thread: kanji to print on a t-shirt Post: kanji to print on a t-shirt Pay to play: http://www.kanjigraphy.com/index.html Download free fonts into your computer and use them somehow: http://wakan.manga.cz/forum/viewtopic.ph...819b6a765d Collection on the net: http://ww... |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 3 | 1,735 | 2006-09-01, 2:03 am | ||
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Thread: The quick brown fox... Post: The quick brown fox... Here's a crazy thought. In english there's sentences that let you type every key on a keyboard. Why don't we do similar for all the kanji in RTK1. Here's the details. Create a list of compounds (pre... |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 3 | 1,362 | 2006-08-31, 12:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Give yourself a Christmas gift: Complete RTKI by Christmas Post: Give yourself a Christmas gift: Complete RTKI by C... About 17 weeks till xmas? I have about 440 left so roughly 26 per week. |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 23 | 7,078 | 2006-08-31, 10:59 am | ||
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Thread: index numbers mnemonic NO. 1, THE LARCH Post: index numbers mnemonic NO. 1, THE LARCH Houston. When I read the pegging method I thought, "Hey if I pegged a number for each kanji then I could write them all down in order from 1 to 2000+ from memory." But then I decided it is hard enoug... |
scottamus | Learning resources | 6 | 2,491 | 2006-08-28, 1:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Commonly confused kanji Post: Commonly confused kanji 拐/招 whee |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 43 | 15,249 | 2006-08-28, 9:05 am | ||
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Thread: index numbers mnemonic NO. 1, THE LARCH Post: index numbers mnemonic NO. 1, THE LARCH You talkin' bout this method? http://www.buildyourmemory.com/pegging.php |
scottamus | Learning resources | 6 | 2,491 | 2006-08-28, 9:00 am | ||
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Thread: Hand-writing kanji character recognition in your browser Post: Hand-writing kanji character recognition in your b... Very cool. So when can we expect to see it integrated into the kanji review? :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D |
scottamus | Learning resources | 3 | 6,741 | 2006-08-24, 11:06 am | ||
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Thread: Origins of 仮名 Post: Origins of 仮名 IIRC, the derivations are also in Heisig's book remembering the kana, which I recommend to anyone who hasn't mastered them yet. At least check it out from the library. |
scottamus | The Japanese language | 13 | 4,425 | 2006-08-24, 10:57 am | ||
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Thread: the blue kanji box Post: the blue kanji box wrightak Wrote:What does 大塚愛 mean? A few guesses come to mind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Otsuka |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 26 | 12,575 | 2006-08-22, 8:21 am | ||
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Thread: What's the best time to start Heisig? Post: What's the best time to start Heisig? ivoSF Wrote:a bit off-topic, but this seemed the best topic to fent mine irritation.... is anyone else wondering why hesig uses on some occasions expensive words? i`m not a native english speaker and ... |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 46 | 14,710 | 2006-08-04, 9:30 am | ||
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Thread: What's the best time to start Heisig? Post: What's the best time to start Heisig? The only answer is 今! My real answer is as soon as you start wanting to learn kanji. I started by using henshall's book and never got past a couple hundred after years off and on of which I only vagu... |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 46 | 14,710 | 2006-08-01, 4:59 am | ||
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Thread: Vocab mnemonics Post: Vocab mnemonics No I just saw it today. It's only ten bux and it has decent reviews so I will probably go ahead and grab it. |
scottamus | General discussion | 5 | 4,143 | 2006-07-25, 5:23 pm | ||
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Thread: Vocab mnemonics Post: Vocab mnemonics Does anyone have a significant list of mnemonics for Japanese Vocab? I have seen a few here and there and have made many of my own but with the exception of the book below I can't find a significant s... |
scottamus | General discussion | 5 | 4,143 | 2006-07-25, 10:49 am | ||
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Thread: Free japanese eBooks Post: Free japanese eBooks I can't figure out how to browse any of the japanese books aside from the "popular" ones on the front page. Looks like a good find if we can get to them. ok, just search for "japanese_collection" ht... |
scottamus | Learning resources | 5 | 4,997 | 2006-07-14, 10:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Stroke Order Rules Post: Stroke Order Rules Hand - Linen (cloth). Is that gentle cycle or something? |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 48 | 22,844 | 2006-07-06, 1:28 pm | ||
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Thread: Anybody doing calligraphy ? 書道 ? Post: Anybody doing calligraphy ? 書道 ? I'd be interested in doing some calligraphy just so I can understand how to read the characters. As it is, I can't understand most kanji written like that because it's so hard to make out the primativ... |
scottamus | The Japanese language | 28 | 14,003 | 2006-07-05, 5:58 pm | ||
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Thread: So how do you get about RTK2? Post: So how do you get about RTK2? For learning compounds do you use a different kanji town for them? i.e. find all the compounds that start with heart and create a heart shaped house (or whatever) and have all the compounds in a chain... |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 58 | 19,115 | 2006-06-28, 10:15 am | ||
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Thread: So how do you get about RTK2? Post: So how do you get about RTK2? Immacolata Wrote:So the chances are that you will get confused are so small compared to the tower of BENEFIT you will reap following this approach. Camman, man. Give it a try if you already did RTK1.... |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 58 | 19,115 | 2006-06-26, 4:06 pm | ||
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Thread: So how do you get about RTK2? Post: So how do you get about RTK2? So you're saying once you've learned the readings then you can pronounce unfamilar compounds correctly. But how do you know which reading to use? It it something that just makes sense the more you do ... |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 58 | 19,115 | 2006-06-26, 2:26 pm | ||
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Thread: So how do you get about RTK2? Post: So how do you get about RTK2? I see the 'how' of kanjitown but I'm still a little confused on the 'why'. I'm trying to understand the motivation for learning all the readings. I haven't gotten into the readings yet so I may not ha... |
scottamus | Remembering the Kanji | 58 | 19,115 | 2006-06-26, 12:19 pm | ||
