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Thread: HOw doyou guys deal with those bastard "heart" Kanji Post: HOw doyou guys deal with those bastard "heart" Kan... I posted a bunch of stories for heart using one form as Jack the Ripper the vicious serial killer, because most of the keywords that used it easily fit with it - dreadful, repent, hate, pleasure, remo... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 11 | 1,993 | 2009-02-10, 7:17 am | ||
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Thread: Idiot-proof guide to moving to Japan? Post: Idiot-proof guide to moving to Japan? snallygaster Wrote:IAnd Wizard, "the worst police force in the world?" I don't mean to sound rude, but give your ***** head a shake. That's not only ridiculous on its face, but really insulting to an... |
Wizard | General discussion | 127 | 24,779 | 2009-01-06, 4:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Idiot-proof guide to moving to Japan? Post: Idiot-proof guide to moving to Japan? bodhisamaya Wrote:Wizard Wrote:Japan isn't a fantastic wonderous utopia of a country, you should really try to see the real side of it before wanting to migrate there. It is filled with problems such... |
Wizard | General discussion | 127 | 24,779 | 2009-01-06, 4:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Idiot-proof guide to moving to Japan? Post: Idiot-proof guide to moving to Japan? Japan isn't a fantastic wonderous utopia of a country, you should really try to see the real side of it before wanting to migrate there. It is filled with problems such as racism, a ridiculous govern... |
Wizard | General discussion | 127 | 24,779 | 2009-01-06, 1:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Any help with #655 discard Post: Any help with #655 discard My story was You discard a card and turn the next card over with your fingertips, and you win!! Full Cottage! Wait...what? I think it's a good idea to associate discard with cards, thats what spring... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 10 | 1,920 | 2009-01-06, 12:07 pm | ||
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Thread: new to Japanese, traveling soon, need advice Post: new to Japanese, traveling soon, need advice I suggest lots of Katakana practice so you can read it quickly, it will really help a lot with menus and signs. Most menus are katakana English, a lot of them even have ライス (rice) in English, it's rat... |
Wizard | General discussion | 45 | 5,857 | 2008-11-21, 3:16 am | ||
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Thread: Heisig - Stressful/taxing or not at all? Post: Heisig - Stressful/taxing or not at all? mattyjaddy Wrote:In this last message evident is one reason why it was frustrating having a discussion with you. You were constantly combining or compartmentalizing arguments at will. Here the only to... |
Wizard | General discussion | 47 | 7,062 | 2008-11-17, 10:43 am | ||
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Thread: Heisig - Stressful/taxing or not at all? Post: Heisig - Stressful/taxing or not at all? It was me that posted the original message, I didn't say it was fun/easy. On the topic of discussion with rote memorisation vs. heisig, what I said was that there isn't much stress involved in learni... |
Wizard | General discussion | 47 | 7,062 | 2008-11-17, 4:22 am | ||
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Thread: 30 Kanji a day, any advice on keeping up? Post: 30 Kanji a day, any advice on keeping up? If I could give one piece of advice, it would be never ever ever learn less than one new kanji per day. |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 37 | 9,068 | 2008-10-10, 7:42 am | ||
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Thread: Will Power Leveraging Post: Will Power Leveraging The problem comes when you find an easier way to get your $100 back than by studying the kanji... begging or lying that you really did do them... ...or it's the last day before your deadline and ... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 24 | 3,736 | 2008-10-01, 4:43 am | ||
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Thread: Learning Resources: Boyfriends, Girlfriends, and your study. Post: Learning Resources: Boyfriends, Girlfriends, and ... Dating my girlfriend for about 6 months dramatically increased my fluency, but didn't affect my kanji. The second set of 6 months hasn't done much. |
Wizard | Learning resources | 29 | 4,811 | 2008-08-13, 8:47 pm | ||
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Thread: The Movie Method of learning onyomi. Post: The Movie Method of learning onyomi. I think it's a good method, and I've given it some thought and consideration. I don't really think knowing the readings of the kanji by themselves is exceptionally useful, and if you learn vocabularl... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 159 | 71,150 | 2008-08-11, 12:35 pm | ||
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Thread: On taking a break from adding new kanji... Post: On taking a break from adding new kanji... Sevenhelmets Wrote:Wizard Wrote:I bought the set of heisig kanji cards off amazon. Kinda expensive, but I choose 30 kanji I fail and carry them with me at all times, and whenever I have some spare tim... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 11 | 1,928 | 2008-08-06, 11:22 pm | ||
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Thread: On taking a break from adding new kanji... Post: On taking a break from adding new kanji... My fail pile slowly crept up and I haven't learned any new kanji for a while now. I have been thoroughly sorting my fail pile out. It's almost cleared up. I bought the set of heisig kanji cards off a... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 11 | 1,928 | 2008-08-06, 6:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Where can I find a Heisig English word list? Post: Where can I find a Heisig English word list? Not entirely sure how you want to use it but: Here's a Microsoft Word document where I managed to squeeze all the words on 4 pages (2 a4 sheets if you print on the reverse) Here's a plain text docum... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 4,759 | 2008-08-01, 6:14 am | ||
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Thread: If I fail a kanji a bunch of times... Post: If I fail a kanji a bunch of times... Hmm, I guess I will have to wait and see. I know they stick eventually but I am not sure it isn't short term... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 1,561 | 2008-07-31, 2:10 am | ||
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Thread: If I fail a kanji a bunch of times... Post: If I fail a kanji a bunch of times... Hmm, so for example 唱 the story is people mouth wide open tongues waggling is a choir. If I kept failing that kanji repeatedly, at first by completely forgetting the story, then by making mistakes wi... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 1,561 | 2008-07-30, 11:09 pm | ||
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Thread: If I fail a kanji a bunch of times... Post: If I fail a kanji a bunch of times... Eventually the story sticks. Is this bad? If it doesn't stick near enough first time does that mean I will forget it in the future? I presume I am eventually just memorising the stories. |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 1,561 | 2008-07-30, 9:32 am | ||
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Thread: Does this happen to anyone else? Post: Does this happen to anyone else? Sometimes I have bad days where I fail lots of cards I shouldn't, I usually just stop reviewing and come back to it later and it often solves the problem. |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 1,423 | 2008-07-27, 7:27 pm | ||
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Thread: You baffle me Heisig, with 人 Post: You baffle me Heisig, with 人 I thought the white glove wearing clapping one was a good story but I feared I would get it confused later, a white gloved hand man clapping i might end up using hand. Most of my fingers stories are ... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 9,453 | 2008-07-23, 6:55 am | ||
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Thread: You baffle me Heisig, with 人 Post: You baffle me Heisig, with 人 The hard part is linking the word to your story, I find. An unclear story that results in you forgetting one primative can be rectified easily with review but when you first look at a keyword such as ... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 9,453 | 2008-07-22, 7:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Delight- 570 Post: Delight- 570 What do you associate with pegasus and delighted? Have you seen the movie Hercules? He has a pet pegasus right? So imagine being Delighted that Hercules, the handsome strapping man, has come to resc... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 11 | 2,293 | 2008-07-21, 10:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Cutting up Post: Cutting up Wheat is tree with an extra drop on the top. When wheat doesn't fit into a story does anyone use tree + drop? I used it for autumn 秋 The trees burst into red flame in autumn, starting with the leaf at... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 2 | 892 | 2008-07-21, 8:01 pm | ||
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Thread: You baffle me Heisig, with 人 Post: You baffle me Heisig, with 人 Thanks I learned a lot from this thread. Actually, the biggest problem for me is linking the keyword to my vivid story. Creating vivid stories to link the kanji in them together is (by now) quite eas... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 9,453 | 2008-07-21, 2:43 am | ||
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Thread: You baffle me Heisig, with 人 Post: You baffle me Heisig, with 人 A lot of my stories don't make full logical sense, actually my image was that someone put it in the valley under the ground, and i have an image of all the plants dying... but after that single kanji ... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 9,453 | 2008-07-20, 9:56 pm | ||
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Thread: You baffle me Heisig, with 人 Post: You baffle me Heisig, with 人 yukamina Wrote:How do you remember that 人 is Jack the Ripper, or whatever? That seems like completely random and arbitrary info that would be learned by rote and use. The same way you learn almost eve... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 9,453 | 2008-07-20, 9:41 pm | ||
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Thread: You baffle me Heisig, with 人 Post: You baffle me Heisig, with 人 I'm sorry, I don't think it's a genius revolutionary new concept, I mean I figured it out around 1,000 and im sure heisig read his own book. Anyway, I just wanted people to think with an open mind, I ... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 9,453 | 2008-07-20, 10:31 am | ||
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Thread: Can someone offer advice to a poor Australian lad? Post: Can someone offer advice to a poor Australian lad? I have the same problem, if I slow down then the most recently learned 50 kanji escape from my head. My fail pile is always between 30 and 50 characters, and I am up to 950 now. |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 2,443 | 2008-07-20, 8:23 am | ||
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Thread: You baffle me Heisig, with 人 Post: You baffle me Heisig, with 人 I think I am confusing two issues. The first issue is as Heisig states, if you simply use Person in your stories you will confuse earlier stories, such as "A man does ____". The second issue is, why ... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 9,453 | 2008-07-20, 5:39 am | ||
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Thread: You baffle me Heisig, with 人 Post: You baffle me Heisig, with 人 Fingers is just an example, but in a lot of stories it became dangerously interchangable with "hand" or "two hands" or whatever. That's just me though. Everyone has their tricky primative. Just rememb... |
Wizard | Remembering the Kanji | 35 | 9,453 | 2008-07-20, 3:32 am | ||
