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    Thread: Should I make 2 cards of a fact, or 1?
Post: Should I make 2 cards of a fact, or 1?

I'm in a somewhat similar position as OP (ie. finished RTK, at 260~ sentences at the moment, most being from manga), but so far all I've done is recognition. So far, this has worked pretty ok, since I...
Sleepyhead General discussion 15 1,869 2009-06-08, 4:50 am
    Thread: Survey - Where are you at?
Post: Survey - Where are you at?

1. How many facts (production and recognition are only 1 fact) do you have in your SRS? Currently only 239. 2. What sentences have you and are you putting into your SRS? A few from Tae Kim's guide, s...
Sleepyhead General discussion 104 20,805 2009-06-03, 5:26 pm
    Thread: Mr. T vs Chuck Norris - who do you use?
Post: Mr. T vs Chuck Norris - who do you use?

I used neither. Instead, I used Haruhi from the 涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 series. The guy who though of using her for "person" is a genius.
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 30 5,923 2009-05-27, 1:29 pm
    Thread: Games that are good for building vocabulary
Post: Games that are good for building vocabulary

Abit off-topic, but the main reason the 東方 series is so popular is mostly due to the characters, and the world they live in. More specifically, it's because of 同人誌漫画 and fanart of the characters (from...
Sleepyhead Learning resources 54 19,356 2009-05-27, 1:27 pm
    Thread: What music are you into?
Post: What music are you into?

For specific genres, I'm mostly into melodic death metal (Arch Enemy (Nemesis) and Amon Amarth (Twilight of the Thunder God - amazing song - Viking metal is awesome!) being the main ones) and to some ...
Sleepyhead Off topic 17 2,444 2009-05-22, 3:49 pm
    Thread: MSG 魔法使い(♂)と弟子(♀)の不適切なカンケイ 1
Post: MSG 魔法使い(♂)と弟子(♀)の不適切なカンケイ 1

Yeah, I got it fixed now. I rarely use my gmail account, so I forget it in between every time I use it. xD Guess I'll go at it from the last page, backwards towards the first page then, so we'll meet...
Sleepyhead Group study 9 3,482 2009-05-05, 11:20 am
    Thread: MSG 魔法使い(♂)と弟子(♀)の不適切なカンケイ 1
Post: MSG 魔法使い(♂)と弟子(♀)の不適切なカンケイ 1

Yey. Was abit hesitant on making this topic myself, so I waited for someone else to do it. >.< As a note on the script, the master guy presents himself as 西園寺幾丸 (Saionji Ikumaru) abit later in ...
Sleepyhead Group study 9 3,482 2009-05-05, 11:08 am
    Thread: Selectively adding Kanji after 2042.
Post: Selectively adding Kanji after 2042.

As written in this post on the front page, adding cards out of order is something that will be added soon (May 22th).
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 3 1,017 2009-05-05, 10:24 am
    Thread: English reading.
Post: English reading.

Gingerninja Wrote:I know a lot of Non English natives use this site who's english (in writing in least) is nativly fluent. Wondering if you can make as clear sense of this as an english native. and ...
Sleepyhead Off topic 6 997 2009-05-04, 6:57 pm
    Thread: Manga Study/Translation Group
Post: Manga Study/Translation Group

Chandlerhimself Wrote:I'm interested in doing another manga. It seems there are a lot of people here doing Conan, so there isn't much point in having 20 people do the same thing(and I don't really lik...
Sleepyhead Group study 65 18,913 2009-05-04, 5:41 pm
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

thorstenu Wrote:Wally Wrote:Tzadeck Wrote:every single Japanese sound can be expressed accurately in Romaji. I disagree, actually. Just as the English R and L cannot be expressed very well at all in ...
Sleepyhead General discussion 1,517 595,174 2009-05-02, 7:48 pm
    Thread: Japanese keywords
Post: Japanese keywords

Tobberoth Wrote:usis35 Wrote:I am using a variation of this method, and it is working very well so far. I would like to know if you see any downside. I use both keywords together, one along the other,...
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 410 149,064 2009-04-28, 9:34 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

FINALLY! Never thought it would be my turn to post in this thread as a self proclaimed king of kanji. Whew... My weekdays will feel kinda empty after this though.. No staying up late because "I have ...
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,758 2009-04-27, 1:05 pm
    Thread: Final Countdown
Post: Final Countdown

Whew, this "race" really got me going on kanji again! I'm up at well over 50 kanji per day, actually getting close to 100 on some days. I've changed plans, and now I plan on finishing by Sunday (26th)...
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 71 23,838 2009-04-23, 4:09 pm
    Thread: Norwegian musician wanting to study japanese -RTK Start-up help needed
Post: Norwegian musician wanting to study japanese -RTK ...

If you read the "description"-ish field for each kanji, that's Heisig's story for that kanji. Sometimes he just adresses which connotation of the word that should be used for that certain kanji, and s...
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 18 2,619 2009-04-23, 12:21 pm
    Thread: Norwegian musician wanting to study japanese -RTK Start-up help needed
Post: Norwegian musician wanting to study japanese -RTK ...

I think his patterns go something like this: Before anything else you review expired cards, then you add new stuff. So if your time limit for kanji each day is 1 hour, let's say your review takes 30 m...
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 18 2,619 2009-04-23, 1:27 am
    Thread: Norwegian musician wanting to study japanese -RTK Start-up help needed
Post: Norwegian musician wanting to study japanese -RTK ...

Zorlee Wrote:Hi everyone! First of all - thank you so much for this wonderful site - I've been reading a lot on this page today, and found out that I had to register! I'm a 19 year old young man fro...
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 18 2,619 2009-04-22, 3:01 pm
    Thread: Final Countdown
Post: Final Countdown

You're doing it chapter by chapter as well Thunk? :P I just noticed, since I just added 1586 myself. xD And yeah, that chapter 39 throws a lot of new primitives at you. For me, it'll probably take som...
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 71 23,838 2009-04-20, 5:26 pm
    Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!
Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!

Just went through chapter 39 (in other words, 1530 \o/). I probably won't review it untill tomorrow after school though (it's 1:26 am here as I'm posting this), but it feels nice to have reached anoth...
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 462 138,228 2009-04-19, 6:27 pm
    Thread: Newbie Questions, remembering stroke order/flash card template
Post: Newbie Questions, remembering stroke order/flash c...

xzseth Wrote:Hello I have some questions/concerns re trying to remember kanji which I would be grateful if someone could advise me on. Firstly. I think both the site and the book are really good reso...
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 9 4,445 2009-04-17, 5:13 pm
    Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!
Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!

Cheers to you! I'm still "only" at 1332 (well, I'll review those last ones leading up to that very soon), so I'm still abit behind, but seeing as the weekend is here, I plan on getting there by Sunda...
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 462 138,228 2009-04-17, 2:09 pm
    Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!
Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!

I'm still only at the 1293 mark at the moment, and right now I also have a bunch of reviews going (in the middle of a huge spike, from the initial reviews after switching to anki), but I'm aiming to f...
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 462 138,228 2009-04-14, 12:04 am
    Thread: Using SRS program for other uses than language learning.
Post: Using SRS program for other uses than language lea...

Seems to be somewhat working now, at least in the card preview feature. It's a different story on the cards however, where it only shows _ on the front, and some weird result on the back. I'm using on...
Sleepyhead Off topic 27 8,292 2009-04-07, 3:49 pm
    Thread: Using SRS program for other uses than language learning.
Post: Using SRS program for other uses than language lea...

Lately, I've been thinking of using Anki for some school subjects (math etc.), but my main problem is that I don't know how to get that LaTeX stuff working in Anki. All I get is this error: Anki Wrote...
Sleepyhead Off topic 27 8,292 2009-04-07, 3:00 pm
    Thread: Heisig's method in other languages?
Post: Heisig's method in other languages?

Another thing you could do, is to use http://dictionary.com/. I've found this useful on several occasions when there's words that I've never even heard of. If nessecary, there's always wikipedia too, ...
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 24 4,653 2009-04-05, 5:00 pm
    Thread: Story in question?
Post: Story in question?

sethg Wrote:I was just reading over the FAQ on AJATT and found that Khatzumoto suggests including the story for the Kanji in the 'question' side of your SRS card. Just out of curiosity (wish I could ...
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 13 3,140 2009-03-28, 4:24 am
    Thread: Stuck at some sort of wall, need help
Post: Stuck at some sort of wall, need help

A few weeks back, I was stuck at about the same point (if it's that that huge 130 kanji chapter you're talking about). What I did, was that I chopped the chapter up into smaller parts, at around 20 ka...
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 17 3,067 2009-03-22, 2:04 pm
    Thread: Next step after Kana
Post: Next step after Kana

Codexus Wrote:igordesu Wrote:What do you guys think of the Japanese in Mangaland books? I have those, and I like them a lot. I think I'm going to mine those. I'd recommend them. Yes, they are excel...
Sleepyhead General discussion 49 10,158 2009-03-20, 12:05 pm
    Thread: Half way!
Post: Half way!

Finally past that halfway mark (at least to the point where I've added the stories, and un-suspended them in anki ^_^). I'm hoping this last part won't take as long as the first part did though. >....
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 616 180,497 2009-03-19, 6:16 pm
    Thread: The Story You're Most Proud Of
Post: The Story You're Most Proud Of

My favourite self made story is the one for emperor 皇: "White people have kings. The Japanese has an emperor instead." Made it stick pretty good. :3
Sleepyhead Remembering the Kanji 29 7,466 2009-03-17, 8:58 am