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    Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig?
Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn...

(2016-06-07, 10:15 am)CureDolly Wrote: So for example, when I suggest learning kanji more organically, I am certainly not suggesting that we learn without mnemonics. In fact I have advocated using m...
Stansfield123 Remembering the Kanji 61 3,892 2016-06-08, 7:16 am
    Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig?
Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn...

(2016-06-06, 7:58 am)Aikynaro Wrote: Well, it's not necessary to know kanji to read, because furigana I'm aware of furigana. But I'm interested in an alternative way to learn to read Japanese as it ...
Stansfield123 Remembering the Kanji 61 3,892 2016-06-08, 6:44 am
    Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig?
Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn...

Nothing more sad in the world than watching a fella tear something positive down just for the sake of fueling his fragile little ego. But, that sad display of irrationality aside, I would love to hea...
Stansfield123 Remembering the Kanji 61 3,892 2016-06-06, 4:05 am
    Thread: Why you can read but can't listen.
Post: RE: Why you can read but can't listen.

Listening comprehension is more than just understanding each word and all the grammar. You can fully understand all that and still not have full listening comprehension, because: a. you don't have en...
Stansfield123 The Japanese language 54 7,330 2016-05-27, 4:33 pm
    Thread: Making Learning Japanese Fun
Post: RE: Making Learning Japanese Fun

Language learning has been mostly fun for me (except for certain tasks that you just HAVE TO get done, fun or not), but it also takes me five to ten years to get good at a language (in the case of Jap...
Stansfield123 General discussion 43 2,824 2016-05-24, 1:31 pm
    Thread: help buying manga
Post: RE: help buying manga

https://shop.whiterabbitjapan.com/collec...ders/manga Shipping can be expensive (to Europe at least), but not as expensive as shipping from Japan. And it's a pretty slim selection.
Stansfield123 General discussion 10 1,000 2016-05-20, 10:57 pm
    Thread: Cramming it all down
Post: RE: Cramming it all down

You're not going to be more efficient by cramming without SRS. The whole point of SRS is to minimize the amount of repetition needed to learn something. So you should definitely SRS everything you are...
Stansfield123 General discussion 2 578 2016-05-16, 10:04 am
    Thread: textbook help
Post: RE: textbook help

Well, textbooks aren't going to make your kotobadzukai any less okashii, sorry to say. Only immersion will. Especially audio (radio, podcasts) and audio-visual. From here until September there are 1,...
Stansfield123 General discussion 15 1,113 2016-05-13, 8:50 pm
    Thread: When not to fail a flashcard?
Post: RE: When not to fail a flashcard?

(2016-05-05, 7:17 pm)yogert909 Wrote: (2016-05-05, 6:09 pm)Stansfield123 Wrote: (2016-04-28, 1:12 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: When not to fail a flashcard? When you know the exact answer, no doubt about...
Stansfield123 Remembering the Kanji 22 1,593 2016-05-08, 4:31 pm
    Thread: News Web Easy - difficult language version?
Post: RE: News Web Easy - difficult language version?

The articles seem to be based on TV news stories, not online articles. So there will usually be a video of the original story, as it aired on TV. I tend to switch to that one pretty early, when the du...
Stansfield123 The Japanese language 4 777 2016-05-07, 8:34 am
    Thread: Who is your "Person" (Lesson 27)?
Post: RE: Who is your "Person" (Lesson 27)?

Mr. T. Fu*k. That means I'm old. (34 is old, right?) If you've ever seen even so much as one episode of the A-team, that's the guy you wanna go with. His stories are the best.
Stansfield123 Remembering the Kanji 66 19,439 2016-05-05, 6:13 pm
    Thread: When not to fail a flashcard?
Post: RE: When not to fail a flashcard?

(2016-04-28, 1:12 pm)FlameseeK Wrote: When not to fail a flashcard? When you know the exact answer, no doubt about it. Any other time, fail it. Don't even think about it, just hit one and move right...
Stansfield123 Remembering the Kanji 22 1,593 2016-05-05, 6:09 pm
    Thread: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of Japanese)
Post: RE: Nayr's Core5000 deck (Frequency Dictionary of ...

I think people's choice of decks to SRS should depend on their individual goals. For instance, my goal is listening comprehension, because I want to quickly get to a stage where learning Japanese beco...
Stansfield123 Learning resources 204 74,776 2016-05-03, 10:47 am
    Thread: KanJi Hybrid Times
Post: RE: KanJi Hybrid Times

Clever. It should be used in conjunction with RtK (or another mnemonic system), but it seems like something that might work pretty well. I wouldn't spend hundreds of hours on it, but a few hours here ...
Stansfield123 General discussion 6 870 2016-04-26, 6:51 am
    Thread: To Tae Kim or not?
Post: RE: To Tae Kim or not?

(2016-04-24, 8:17 am)risu_ Wrote: I don't know German, but I could read Kafka right now if I wanted to while using a dictionary to look up every single word. Going through a grammar guide prior to d...
Stansfield123 The Japanese language 22 2,176 2016-04-25, 4:49 am
    Thread: To Tae Kim or not?
Post: RE: To Tae Kim or not?

(2016-04-16, 12:29 am)risu_ Wrote: You definitely need a grammar guide of some kind so that you can even recognise grammar structures. I think that's an unfounded statement. Plus, I know it's wrong...
Stansfield123 The Japanese language 22 2,176 2016-04-24, 2:32 am
    Thread: To Tae Kim or not?
Post: RE: To Tae Kim or not?

Japanese sentence structures are a big departure from European languages. So, while I wouldn't normally bother with any kind of grammar, I think a basic one could be useful, to get you started with so...
Stansfield123 The Japanese language 22 2,176 2016-04-24, 2:24 am
    Thread: Help with production
Post: RE: Help with production

I think going out into the world and talking to people (or even just chatting/posting on a forum, in writing) definitely helps. I don't like doing it, myself, early on (it makes me uncomfortable to su...
Stansfield123 General discussion 9 968 2016-04-11, 12:16 pm
    Thread: program that stream live TV?
Post: RE: program that stream live TV?

If anyone's into baseball, the Yankees game starts in an hour, on J-Sports 3. It's Tanaka Masahiro vs. Verlander. edit: never mind, it's been cancelled. Apparently, it's snowing in Detroit.
Stansfield123 General discussion 278 155,901 2016-04-10, 5:56 pm
    Thread: Listening and speaking, I'm still a little lost
Post: RE: Listening and speaking, I'm still a little los...

(2016-04-09, 9:18 pm)CureDolly Wrote: This show looks really interesting. This is probably a very silly question, but while the transcripts look good I can't work out where the actual audio is. O...
Stansfield123 General discussion 31 3,215 2016-04-10, 5:02 pm
    Thread: program that stream live TV?
Post: RE: program that stream live TV?

Found a new streaming program...has over 30 channels. Not sure how good it is yet, just installed it today. It's working great right now...it didn't work very well when it was prime time in Japan thou...
Stansfield123 General discussion 278 155,901 2016-04-10, 1:14 pm
    Thread: Listening and speaking, I'm still a little lost
Post: RE: Listening and speaking, I'm still a little los...

(2016-04-09, 3:11 pm)RawrPk Wrote: Since I watch shows without subs of any kind, I depend on looking at transcripts outside of my watching time. I do this with sub2srs and kage shibari. I haven't be...
Stansfield123 General discussion 31 3,215 2016-04-09, 8:29 pm
    Thread: Listening and speaking, I'm still a little lost
Post: RE: Listening and speaking, I'm still a little los...

Parallel thread, same subject: http://forum.koohii.com/thread-13364-page-3.html (2016-03-29, 11:40 am)cophnia61 Wrote: If the "listen hundreds of time" is true, how much of this need to be active l...
Stansfield123 General discussion 31 3,215 2016-04-09, 8:02 pm
    Thread: Am I doing the most appropriate things to improve listening ability?
Post: RE: Am I doing the most appropriate things to impr...

(2016-04-07, 10:19 am)scooter1 Wrote: (2016-04-07, 8:04 am)Stansfield123 Wrote: But, when listening to natives, they speak way too fast for that. And they don't do it by composing words into gramm...
Stansfield123 The Japanese language 61 9,718 2016-04-08, 7:58 pm
    Thread: The Japanese Lyrics Thread! 日本語歌詞スレ
Post: RE: The Japanese Lyrics Thread! 日本語歌詞スレ

I made an Anki deck, a few years ago, with a few song lyrics, mostly pop songs: http://forum.koohii.com/thread-10427.html They're in spreadsheet form, but it takes two minutes to import that into Ank...
Stansfield123 General discussion 18 1,493 2016-04-07, 10:19 am
    Thread: Am I doing the most appropriate things to improve listening ability?
Post: RE: Am I doing the most appropriate things to impr...

I'm a little late to this, but I'll post my take on it anyway, someone might still find it useful...and it goes against the usual, common sense advice of "you just have to listen a lot, and eventually...
Stansfield123 The Japanese language 61 9,718 2016-04-07, 8:04 am
    Thread: Anki % for learning / young / mature cards
Post: RE: Anki %

(2016-03-31, 12:02 pm)wannabenihonjin Wrote: I was planning on stopping after I finished RTK and just do my reviews on one device. I am curious as to why doing double the reviews is a bad thing? See...
Stansfield123 Remembering the Kanji 13 1,285 2016-04-01, 1:17 pm
    Thread: Anki % for learning / young / mature cards
Post: RE: Anki %

wannabenihonjin My computer and phone decks are not synced. So I am just doing the same deck twice, but my phone deck % is actually better than my compuiter deck because I do my phone deck after the c...
Stansfield123 Remembering the Kanji 13 1,285 2016-03-31, 7:03 am
    Thread: Anki % for learning / young / mature cards
Post: RE: Anki %

(2016-03-30, 1:18 pm)wannabenihonjin Wrote: I don't use stories that much, I tried at the start, but I found that just knowing the primitives was good enough for me. If I find a kanji I find is hard...
Stansfield123 Remembering the Kanji 13 1,285 2016-03-31, 6:57 am
    Thread: Anki % for learning / young / mature cards
Post: RE: Anki %

(2016-03-29, 5:39 pm)wannabenihonjin Wrote: I do recognition only.The only settings i messed with was to put review cards before new ones. I also write every review and new kanji once, but only beca...
Stansfield123 Remembering the Kanji 13 1,285 2016-03-30, 6:26 am