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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 | ||
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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... (2016-06-06, 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 | ||
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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... 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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
