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    Thread: What is the point of 12,800 kanji?
Post: What is the point of 12,800 kanji?

Quite. If you were doing any work on early Japanese literature you'd need them.
Erysichthon General discussion 48 7,008 2014-04-29, 5:13 am
    Thread: What is the point of 12,800 kanji?
Post: What is the point of 12,800 kanji?

Yes it's a big number for us foreign learners. I guess if you're a geologist for example, then you may want to use specific kanji for a whole lot of terms which you read about all the time but that th...
Erysichthon General discussion 48 7,008 2014-04-29, 3:00 am
    Thread: Question for iKnow! Users
Post: Question for iKnow! Users

Yes, I unsuspend cards in anki once they're mastered in Iknow. In fact I do it by batches of 100 at the end of each step. The Iknow srs is fine, but I'm gonna quit it once I'm done with all 6000, like...
Erysichthon Learning resources 9 2,103 2012-05-12, 6:34 pm
    Thread: Is it just me or....
Post: Is it just me or....

This should help: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5110 Particularly doing Core while keeping up your kanji reviews
Erysichthon Remembering the Kanji 2 1,165 2011-10-11, 12:08 pm
    Thread: Subscribing to iKnow
Post: Subscribing to iKnow

wccrawford Wrote:iKnow is the only one I've found that repeats the same word over and over during the study sessions. It'll do it from JP->EN, EN->JP, Kanji->Typing, Audio->EN, Audio->...
Erysichthon The Japanese language 27 11,011 2011-08-17, 4:41 pm
    Thread: Vocab Study
Post: Vocab Study

Hey, in my case not really...there are so many compounds, it would get out of hand pretty quickly. The kanji readings will help you remember the compounds (just by learning vocab, not necessarily lear...
Erysichthon The Japanese language 2 711 2011-05-22, 7:49 pm
    Thread: Best Way to Use Core2K
Post: Best Way to Use Core2K

Thanks aphasiac : ) , that makes a lot of sense now!
Erysichthon Learning resources 11 5,634 2011-04-13, 8:21 am
    Thread: Best Way to Use Core2K
Post: Best Way to Use Core2K

I use what has been described above as the "production method", always writing out the word that the sentence is concentrated on, and sometimes the whole sentence...it takes longer but I feel the bene...
Erysichthon Learning resources 11 5,634 2011-04-12, 7:33 am
    Thread: Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use?
Post: Ipod Touch Applications - Which Do you Use?

I recently bought ianki and I was wondering if there was any way to write out the kanji and have the program recognize it so as to make use of the touch screen (and also because it's the best way to b...
Erysichthon General discussion 39 13,192 2011-01-22, 4:47 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Phew! Finished at last...I know, I know, it hasn't even really begun yet : \ *gulp*. Thanks for the great stories everyone! It took me 128 days (or 4 months and 3 days, or 18 weeks rounded down; whic...
Erysichthon Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,705 2010-12-19, 3:09 pm
    Thread: Learn a language in an hour
Post: Learn a language in an hour

Just spent about 90 minutes doing reviews...man do I feel dumb now :D
Erysichthon Learning resources 14 2,404 2010-11-14, 6:31 pm