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    Thread: What makes a radical a radical?
Post: What makes a radical a radical?

Hey everyone! After a while I started learning kanji with Heisig again. This time one of my goals is to know the differences between radicals and Heisig´s primitive elements (to know which ones are al...
Dairwolf The Japanese language 7 1,023 2015-08-12, 5:26 am
    Thread: Anyone up for something in Tokyo?
Post: Anyone up for something in Tokyo?

Hey there, I hope it´s ok to post this here. If not, feel free to tell me (well, I guess someone would do so anyway). I´ll participate in the summer camp of my Uni´s circle from Sep 21st to 26th, bu...
Dairwolf Off topic 9 1,939 2011-09-06, 9:11 pm
    Thread: Where can I buy exercise equipment in Japan?
Post: Where can I buy exercise equipment in Japan?

I want to buy a stair stepper and maybe dumbbells, but I haven´t yet found a store where I can get those things. I live in Chiba (Inage) now, maybe somebody knows a store that is near this place? I wo...
Dairwolf General discussion 8 3,377 2011-01-06, 6:02 am
    Thread: Smoother ways to add Vocab to SRS?
Post: Smoother ways to add Vocab to SRS?

Right now my vocab searching chain is like this: seeing a new word in a text (which is like every second word since I am rather at a beginning level) -----> highlighting word with mouse ----->...
Dairwolf The Japanese language 2 708 2011-01-01, 1:56 am
    Thread: "Learning" vocabulary with an SRS?
Post: "Learning" vocabulary with an SRS?

@ JimmySeal: I did it this way because I just started reviewing vocabulary with an SRS. Before I used paper flash cards. When I still did it this way I wasted a lot of time reviewing the same vocabula...
Dairwolf The Japanese language 10 4,178 2010-12-24, 3:47 am
    Thread: "Learning" vocabulary with an SRS?
Post: "Learning" vocabulary with an SRS?

I was just wondering whether an SRS like e.g. Anki is suitable for learning vocabulary initially. Let´s say I have an new word and repeat it using Anki until it sticks to my memory for the learning se...
Dairwolf The Japanese language 10 4,178 2010-12-23, 10:29 pm
    Thread: Language learning = time-consuming for the rest of your life?
Post: Language learning = time-consuming for the rest of...

Hey folks, I think this one is rather easy for experienced language learners. If I want to learn a language, does this mean that I have to invest time on learning the language every day for the rest o...
Dairwolf The Japanese language 21 5,862 2010-12-14, 12:14 am
    Thread: Whole grain Products in Japan?
Post: Whole grain Products in Japan?

Hey there! Right now I´m living in Chiba, Japan and I would like to know where you can buy whole grain products, brown rice, oatmeal and other healthy alternatives to the white rice and the types of n...
Dairwolf General discussion 18 8,809 2010-11-13, 4:33 am
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

Thank you very much for your replies! There´s two other questions I have, maybe you can help me with those too: 1. What do you think is a good length for sentences? On the original AJATT site, there...
Dairwolf General discussion 1,517 595,138 2010-10-20, 10:28 am
    Thread: The AJATT Method
Post: The AJATT Method

Hey guys, I hope it is ok to post my question here, it has something to do with the AJATT method. Khazumoto writes that it is possible to learn 50 sentences a day with his method or even more. Link ...
Dairwolf General discussion 1,517 595,138 2010-10-17, 6:46 am
    Thread: The "all or nothing" problem or: Help me, I´m stuck!
Post: The "all or nothing" problem or: Help me, I´m stuc...

Ok, night´s over, I had some time to think about everything again and see it yet in a different light. I definetely need to know whether I can reproduce something in order to have good results in th...
Dairwolf The Japanese language 38 7,270 2010-10-07, 7:31 pm
    Thread: The "all or nothing" problem or: Help me, I´m stuck!
Post: The "all or nothing" problem or: Help me, I´m stuc...

EratiK Wrote:Dairwolf Wrote:So, here it is: How can you learn a huge amount of entries with Anki without having to do 400 or so reps a day? You can't. Reviews are the only way to assess the learning p...
Dairwolf The Japanese language 38 7,270 2010-10-07, 9:54 am
    Thread: The "all or nothing" problem or: Help me, I´m stuck!
Post: The "all or nothing" problem or: Help me, I´m stuc...

Thank you all very much. I hope this is my final question regarding this post, yet it´s the same thing put in other words. I´m sorry, but it´s just rotating in my head and I still don´t feel as if I h...
Dairwolf The Japanese language 38 7,270 2010-10-07, 8:49 am
    Thread: The "all or nothing" problem or: Help me, I´m stuck!
Post: The "all or nothing" problem or: Help me, I´m stuc...

nest0r Wrote:Anki, based on your ever-shifting evaluation of your own performance per repetition, finds the minimal amount of total reviews for cards by spacing them further apart, taking advantage of...
Dairwolf The Japanese language 38 7,270 2010-10-07, 4:42 am
    Thread: The "all or nothing" problem or: Help me, I´m stuck!
Post: The "all or nothing" problem or: Help me, I´m stuc...

Asriel Wrote:Even if you rate them high, you'll still have to review them in 7 days right? ...Kind of. It gives you leeway so you don't get flooded with reviews like that. So, your 50 cards will come ...
Dairwolf The Japanese language 38 7,270 2010-10-06, 10:06 pm
    Thread: The "all or nothing" problem or: Help me, I´m stuck!
Post: The "all or nothing" problem or: Help me, I´m stuc...

Thank you all very much for your answers. I actually used to learn with paper flash cards and now I already skipped to Anki. But for some reason it just doesn´t feel "right" to learn with it. A lot of...
Dairwolf The Japanese language 38 7,270 2010-10-06, 9:12 pm
    Thread: The "all or nothing" problem or: Help me, I´m stuck!
Post: The "all or nothing" problem or: Help me, I´m stuc...

Hey everybody, I´m writing this post because my learning process of Japanese has reached it´s bottom. I think the best name for my problem is the "all or nothing" problem. What I mean by this is that ...
Dairwolf The Japanese language 38 7,270 2010-10-06, 8:03 am
    Thread: When is a kanji learned?
Post: When is a kanji learned?

Hey Folks, I´d like to know when exactly you think a kanji is learned. I just recently found out that I used the Heisig method in a way that is not very effective which was not "seeing" the images in ...
Dairwolf Remembering the Kanji 11 2,443 2010-08-31, 7:50 am
    Thread: も after particles
Post: も after particles

I was wondering what other particles も can be used after. I know that e.g. 日本でも (also in Japan) or 先生とも (also with the teacher) make sense, but e.g. 食べたばかりも doesn´t seem to make sense to me. Does some...
Dairwolf The Japanese language 11 3,233 2010-04-05, 5:12 pm
    Thread: Good site/ storys for learning keigo?
Post: Good site/ storys for learning keigo?

I´m learning keigo at the university japanese course now, and i think i need some more practice than that which is in minna no nihongo (duh). Does anyone now a good site to practice keigo or some good...
Dairwolf The Japanese language 4 4,077 2010-01-23, 7:28 am