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    Thread: "Steam" Games in Japanese
Post: "Steam" Games in Japanese

Braid is available in Japanese. There's no audio (but that's in any language). It's a game I've been meaning to play for ages and I'm so glad I finally picked it up, it's really fun and gets you think...
jessem Off topic 84 48,704 2015-03-06, 6:33 pm
    Thread: Help
Post: Help

RTK goes beyond the joyo. I think because you need some extra kanji to build up to certain primitives (transitional kanji, basically), and also because Heisig wants you to know all 60 flower-specific ...
jessem The Japanese language 2 713 2015-03-02, 4:13 am
    Thread: [Speaking]日本語でLet's Play
Post: [Speaking]日本語でLet's Play

That's a great idea! Looks like you guys have a lot of fun too :D My headset's broken right now but I'll definitely watch the group for future games.
jessem Group study 3 1,903 2015-02-15, 10:29 pm
    Thread: Japanese forums
Post: Japanese forums

Anyone know any good Japanese forums to chat with natives in? Not forums ABOUT the Japanese language, but forums entirely in Japanese that a native would use. Links to forums for anime/manga, games, ...
jessem General discussion 3 1,117 2015-02-13, 12:33 am
    Thread: Nayr's Core5000 kanji companion deck
Post: Nayr's Core5000 kanji companion deck

Of all of the RTK decks I have tried (4+ at this point), none of them have been that great. JALUP's is the best of what I've found, and I like it precisely because it has a Japanese keyword in additio...
jessem Learning resources 10 2,679 2015-02-03, 5:00 pm
    Thread: [First Post] How much grammar/vocab for reading a basic novel?
Post: [First Post] How much grammar/vocab for reading a ...

Let's stay on topic. 2,000 words is the general consensus as the bare minimum to get you by in any language. I've done 1,500 of the core2k, but also know maybe 1,000 or so additional words from watch...
jessem Remembering the Kanji 22 6,201 2015-01-20, 11:07 pm
    Thread: Does this kind of program exist?
Post: Does this kind of program exist?

I don't think that program exists. But there's always writing out a little word bank on a sheet of paper, and crossing the word off as you use it.
jessem Learning resources 4 1,701 2015-01-04, 3:28 am
    Thread: I've made a tool that teaches vocab while you browse Facebook
Post: I've made a tool that teaches vocab while you brow...

That's a great idea! Is it a purely random word or an SRS system where words will repeat? Can you choose to see the word in kanji/kana instead of Roman characters? I wish I could get my anki reviews ...
jessem Learning resources 5 1,855 2014-12-13, 3:59 pm
    Thread: How many new cards do you add a day?
Post: How many new cards do you add a day?

I used to add 35 every day, but after about a month and a half of that my reviews really piled up, and I spent hours every day just reviewing. My retention rate dropped, it stopped being fun, and I ab...
jessem General discussion 8 3,077 2014-12-02, 6:56 pm
    Thread: (New) Nintendo 3DS Games
Post: (New) Nintendo 3DS Games

I'm gonna throw in 牧場物語 (Harvest Moon) games for a fun farm sim with lots of everyday small talk, house-related and food-related vocab practice. I think modern day sims are useful to play if you're pl...
jessem General discussion 16 4,416 2014-11-25, 11:25 pm
    Thread: What's your process of adding cards to a sentence deck?
Post: What's your process of adding cards to a sentence ...

I sentence mine native media, and I like to use the sentence I found the new word in as the example sentence too. It's more colorful - I have a personal memory associated with it, and whenever I see t...
jessem The Japanese language 10 2,928 2014-11-21, 5:23 pm
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Trou...

yogert909 Wrote:Select the cards you want to cram in the browser. Tag them with a unique tag. Create a filtered deck with that tag (e.g. tag:mytag). Turn off "reschedule" in the filtered deck opti...
jessem Learning resources 448 98,231 2014-11-20, 2:24 am
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Trou...

Okay... part two of my dumb questions. There is a selection of cards I have found and highlighted in the Browser that I want to study. How do I study these? Can I make a cram deck of just these, in t...
jessem Learning resources 448 98,231 2014-11-19, 5:25 pm
    Thread: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text
Post: KanjiTomo - New OCR program for Japanese text

Just downloaded this and it's pretty awesome - this should really help with my computer reading, thank you so much! The kana recognition is pretty bad...like surprisingly bad, considering how awesome...
jessem Learning resources 139 56,358 2014-11-18, 4:53 pm
    Thread: cb's OCR Manga Reader for Android
Post: cb's OCR Manga Reader for Android

I can't find this on google play... Google gave me a 404 error when I followed a link in? But that aside...could this be used on my PC, or is there an equivalent tool that could be? This looks like s...
jessem Learning resources 75 28,694 2014-11-18, 12:21 pm
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Trou...

Perfect! Thanks Vempele, Yogert! Yogert, I have a 30sec, 3min, 10min, and 1 day learning steps right now. What do you recommend? This extra cram session isn't part of my daily routine, but sometimes...
jessem Learning resources 448 98,231 2014-11-18, 12:15 pm
    Thread: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Troubleshooting Posts)
Post: Anki Small Questions Thread - (NO Technical / Trou...

I want to review all of the new cards I've added today, or maybe even in the past couple days. I guess the defining factor would be interval >3 days. But I can't figure out how to word the search q...
jessem Learning resources 448 98,231 2014-11-16, 4:53 pm
    Thread: 1000th motivation wall.
Post: 1000th motivation wall.

It's frustrating. If you really can't get over seethe vs boiling, then replace that keyword with a Japanese word that has that kanji in it (煮る "to boil" and 沸く "to get hot/excited"). But if you don't ...
jessem Remembering the Kanji 16 3,779 2014-11-10, 1:11 pm
    Thread: Do you add new cards during reviews?
Post: Do you add new cards during reviews?

I'm curious. The anki default seems to be showing you the daily "new" cards during the rest of your reviews. For a while I had the new cards/day set to 0, and I would do just my reviews, and then add ...
jessem The Japanese language 5 1,940 2014-10-30, 1:52 pm
    Thread: Learning Spanish smartly
Post: Learning Spanish smartly

I can't imagine learning Japanese by myself without knowing about RTK, core2k/6k decks in anki, this community, etc. There are so many great resources that I'm sure have cut years off the time it will...
jessem Off topic 7 1,352 2014-10-29, 5:43 pm
    Thread: How long does a 100 reviews take you?
Post: How long does a 100 reviews take you?

yogert909 Wrote:If you find yourself failing brand new cards a lot, you may want to adjust your learning steps. It just means that you will get more reps on new cards the first day. Default is '1 10...
jessem The Japanese language 21 5,610 2014-10-29, 9:49 am
    Thread: Did anyone take a break at the 1000 mark?
Post: Did anyone take a break at the 1000 mark?

I actually started playing Zelda games in Japanese when I reached 500 kanji...only a little bit and I didn't understand much of it, but I remember within the first 5 minutes of the game people were ta...
jessem Remembering the Kanji 20 4,376 2014-10-28, 4:36 pm
    Thread: How long does a 100 reviews take you?
Post: How long does a 100 reviews take you?

Well, I just threw the 1k number out there. I hope to never have that many reviews. There was another person on this forum who mentioned they add 100 new cards a day. I was adding 30-50 a day for a c...
jessem The Japanese language 21 5,610 2014-10-28, 7:55 am
    Thread: Did anyone take a break at the 1000 mark?
Post: Did anyone take a break at the 1000 mark?

There used to be a page on the koohii wiki that had comments for every chapter...useful little tidbits like "Short chapter but some difficult kanji so take your time here. Some people replaced the key...
jessem Remembering the Kanji 20 4,376 2014-10-28, 2:07 am
    Thread: How long does a 100 reviews take you?
Post: How long does a 100 reviews take you?

Stansfield123 Wrote:Says that I studied 464 cards in 61 minutes today. Most of it sentences (with the audio playing in the question), but 100 or so were vocab (same format you're using), and 20 were K...
jessem The Japanese language 21 5,610 2014-10-27, 4:23 am
    Thread: I'm looking for a single reading passage using all 2,136 kanji
Post: I'm looking for a single reading passage using all...

Stansfield123 Wrote:That's nice, but if you only know 90% of characters used in a novel, you can't read it. I'm not saying you only need to know 1,000 kanji to enjoy dictionary-free reading forever. T...
jessem The Japanese language 13 3,879 2014-10-25, 8:59 pm
    Thread: I'm looking for a single reading passage using all 2,136 kanji
Post: I'm looking for a single reading passage using all...

I know of no such passage, but here are some statistics for thought-- Kanji you need to know in order to have covered which percentage of kanji-use (on average) in about 1300 novels: up to 10%: 11 k...
jessem The Japanese language 13 3,879 2014-10-24, 11:47 pm
    Thread: How long does a 100 reviews take you?
Post: How long does a 100 reviews take you?

edit - changed the question from "100 reviews" to "in 1 hour." Inspired by very helpful discussion in this thread, I wanted to know how many cards people can finish in one hour. Please post the deck...
jessem The Japanese language 21 5,610 2014-10-24, 4:13 pm
    Thread: What are the worst / best things you've done for studying?
Post: What are the worst / best things you've done for s...

Best: * Leave anki open all day. When I get bored of something, or find myself wandering tumblr, or finish another task and have some transition time, I just do some reps. The daily reviews are over b...
jessem General discussion 33 9,198 2014-10-24, 2:26 am
    Thread: Example Sentences (given the word)
Post: Example Sentences (given the word)

Jisho.org also has a large collection of sentences, which is convenient because I'm on there a lot anyway.
jessem Learning resources 6 956 2014-10-22, 4:14 pm