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    Thread: Substitute keywords gone lost changed back to english
Post: Substitute keywords gone lost changed back to engl...

Hello xaarg, thank you for your helpful reply. It took me a while but I think I finally found the line where the substitute keywords should be. As they are not there I would really appreciate if you ...
Silmara Learning resources 8 1,426 2009-03-27, 3:48 am
    Thread: Substitute keywords gone lost changed back to english
Post: Substitute keywords gone lost changed back to engl...

Hello everyone, I am almost certain that a similar problem has already been discussed somewhere here, but after an hour of looking for the answer I have given up. So please forgive me if this already...
Silmara Learning resources 8 1,426 2009-03-26, 11:22 am
    Thread: So what alternative primitives did you use?
Post: So what alternative primitives did you use?

Like Chamcham I can not remember the "state of mind" primitive as well. For me its just too abstract. I do not want to use heart though, because it has another shape. So I would be glad if anyone has...
Silmara Remembering the Kanji 67 22,102 2008-09-10, 1:26 pm
    Thread: Research on Sebastian Leitner and Spaced Repetition Systems
Post: Research on Sebastian Leitner and Spaced Repetitio...

Hello takoman, you might want to get access to a journal article database where you can search systematically for articles by keywords. While you can find those articles with google you often can not...
Silmara General discussion 5 1,782 2008-09-05, 11:39 am
    Thread: learning two languages at once
Post: learning two languages at once

@playadom: when you start learning German and need help somehow I would be happy to help. Actually, this offer is not restricted to playadom - so if anyone has questions or wants to chat in German j...
Silmara General discussion 60 11,650 2008-09-03, 12:16 pm
    Thread: learning two languages at once
Post: learning two languages at once

Hello everyone, I know its not quite the same because all languages use the same alphabet but in school I used to learn English, Spanish and Latin at the same time. However, how fast you will progres...
Silmara General discussion 60 11,650 2008-09-02, 4:33 pm
    Thread: The Encouragement Thread
Post: The Encouragement Thread

Walden Wrote:kazelee Wrote:Okay, please explain to us exactly what you do. It's obviously not the easiest to explain but I'll try. I spend 5-7 minuites reading heisig's stories and writing it out pe...
Silmara Remembering the Kanji 908 186,163 2008-08-30, 2:08 am
    Thread: My Japanese roommate!
Post: My Japanese roommate!

Well, I like those discussions about learning methods because it helped me a lot in improving my own learning techniques. That is why I wanted to add that only because one method works for most it st...
Silmara General discussion 32 6,214 2008-08-23, 3:36 am
    Thread: The Encouragement Thread
Post: The Encouragement Thread

kazelee Wrote::D You're almost over the hardest parts. Keep it going. Between 300-500 seems to be where some crack. 1650! Yepp, definetly those damn 300-500 almost break my neck. But I am still fig...
Silmara Remembering the Kanji 908 186,163 2008-08-22, 3:55 pm
    Thread: Inconsistent Kanji markings in the book. WHY?
Post: Inconsistent Kanji markings in the book. WHY?

Frequently, my Japanese teacher warns us not to copy the digital fonts as they are most often simplified versions of the correct writing. For example, 雨 in some digital fonts the little "raindrops" a...
Silmara Remembering the Kanji 8 2,232 2008-08-17, 6:22 am
    Thread: The Movie Method of learning onyomi.
Post: The Movie Method of learning onyomi.

Dear Alyks, you already mentioned that for large groups you need to know the movie well. This is, I assume, because otherwise you could not recall that many scenes. So I wonder if you choose a movie ...
Silmara Remembering the Kanji 159 71,156 2008-08-10, 12:29 pm
    Thread: Heisig's stories vs. my own stories.
Post: Heisig's stories vs. my own stories.

I just had to review the 298 Keyword and this thread seemed to be a good place to congratulate Kurisu for his 100 STAR STORY (the 100st star given by me of course ;) because this story is absolut...
Silmara Remembering the Kanji 5 2,962 2008-07-30, 12:37 pm
    Thread: Signs of SRS overdose
Post: Signs of SRS overdose

1. You begin to feel guilty because all you do in your free time is reviewing all day long, disregarding all other housework and simply cannot convince yourself that studying all day is actually a goo...
Silmara Off topic 26 6,332 2008-07-19, 5:06 am
    Thread: anyone else sick of perverted stories?
Post: anyone else sick of perverted stories?

I do not base my opinion on Heisig's intentions. I have my own opinion and that is, that I simply do not see the need for explicit stories to be shared on this site. Amen ;)
Silmara General discussion 138 45,405 2008-07-17, 3:43 pm
    Thread: anyone else sick of perverted stories?
Post: anyone else sick of perverted stories?

@Dragg Here you are just being contradictory: Quote: "I never said that Heisig intended for stories to be shared, and so how can I stop saying something I never said? .... ...I'm pretty sure "any...
Silmara General discussion 138 45,405 2008-07-17, 2:55 pm
    Thread: anyone else sick of perverted stories?
Post: anyone else sick of perverted stories?

It was said earlier that Heisigs method was developed for home use with everybody staying in their own filthy world, so stop saying that sharing stories with explicit content was intended by Heisig......
Silmara General discussion 138 45,405 2008-07-17, 2:14 pm
    Thread: RTK1 together with kun-yomi?
Post: RTK1 together with kun-yomi?

I do not know if this was discussed somewhere else, but I just stumbled over your post and wanted to share my experience with you because I tried to do the exact same thing. I did this with the first ...
Silmara Remembering the Kanji 7 3,402 2008-07-15, 5:33 am
    Thread: Learn Japanese kanji and vocab with RPG video game
Post: Learn Japanese kanji and vocab with RPG video game

I know its not a RPG but I changed the language in the Sims2 to Japanese and its really fun. They use a lot of Kanji, but if you played it before and experiment its not that hard to understand. When y...
Silmara Learning resources 36 29,695 2008-07-11, 6:26 pm
    Thread: How to get a story that stick?
Post: How to get a story that stick?

I am happy that you already found a way to remember the Kanji, but I wanted to post anyway because other people might have similar problems. I experienced this myself: I saw a Kanji and thought: "Ah w...
Silmara Remembering the Kanji 10 1,701 2008-07-11, 4:33 pm
    Thread: Heisig`s `wrong` keywords
Post: Heisig`s `wrong` keywords

@ Dragg: I agree with you that "keyword switching" should not be undertaken lightly. That is why I wanted to make the list. So that people see what alternate keywords were used in another language. Th...
Silmara Remembering the Kanji 68 20,181 2008-07-10, 5:29 pm
    Thread: Heisig`s `wrong` keywords
Post: Heisig`s `wrong` keywords

If I find more I just leave them here. I think this is interesting for anyone who wants to change keywords for more accurate keywords which are at least officially used in another language ;)
Silmara Remembering the Kanji 68 20,181 2008-07-09, 5:03 pm
    Thread: Heisig`s `wrong` keywords
Post: Heisig`s `wrong` keywords

As I learn with the german version of RtK1 I noticed that some english keywords seem to be "wrong" because they do not exactly represent the kanji meaning, but in the german version totally different ...
Silmara Remembering the Kanji 68 20,181 2008-07-09, 4:37 pm