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    Thread: How to start the Kanji Movie Method?
Post: How to start the Kanji Movie Method?

@uisukii I read every word and all of the posts. Perhaps I missed something. Thanks for your time, anyway. @tashippy Thanks for the warm welcome. I don't have a doctorate in mnemonics, but I am worki...
Doctorate Remembering the Kanji 9 4,534 2013-06-20, 1:42 pm
    Thread: Learning All Primitives First
Post: Learning All Primitives First

When learning the primitives for the Movie Method, do the associations have to show the true meaning? Eg, Could I make 大 mean "webcam" even though it has nothing to do with "large"? Or is it necessar...
Doctorate General discussion 27 4,317 2013-06-20, 9:18 am
    Thread: How to start the Kanji Movie Method?
Post: How to start the Kanji Movie Method?

I will restate my questions because they remain unanswered: 1. How am I expected to learn the 200 or so "basic" kanji? The movie method presupposes knowledge of 200 "basic" kanji. I'm thinking of le...
Doctorate Remembering the Kanji 9 4,534 2013-06-20, 8:13 am
    Thread: How to start the Kanji Movie Method?
Post: How to start the Kanji Movie Method?

I have a background in mnemonics. I have entered several memory competitions in Europe. Where, for example, I have to memorise hundreds of binary digits and other such feats in a limited amount of tim...
Doctorate Remembering the Kanji 9 4,534 2013-06-20, 7:40 am
    Thread: How to study vocabulary? Confused about preferred method
Post: How to study vocabulary? Confused about preferred ...

Im working my way through RTK at the moment. However, I want to know how to study vocabulary, as I will finish RTK within a month! 1. Studying proper In this step I will have the words that i want t...
Doctorate The Japanese language 5 1,085 2013-06-18, 4:35 pm
    Thread: LONG READ: Role of recognition and production in learning vocabulary
Post: LONG READ: Role of recognition and production in l...

Reading this thread leaves me with a question I would like answered: What should go on the front, and back, of cards for learning vocabulary? (assuming the learner has completed RTK1, but knows zero ...
Doctorate The Japanese language 15 3,907 2013-06-18, 3:23 pm
    Thread: Maintaining Interest in Japanese (or anything)
Post: Maintaining Interest in Japanese (or anything)

Socky Wrote:Also, just as a separate question, should I learn to read/write all the kanji at the same time as I learn how to say them (I don't mean the On and Kun, just the ACTUAL word) or should I le...
Doctorate The Japanese language 23 3,685 2013-06-16, 1:30 pm
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

Hi nukemarine. I have another question: I've now learnt 200 kanji using RTK, and I will try to finish this book quickly. I will want to start basic vocabulary soon. How should I go about this? I re...
Doctorate The Japanese language 712 401,493 2013-06-16, 1:21 pm
    Thread: Anybody else start off awfully?
Post: Anybody else start off awfully?

Yes, that sounds right. I just get frustrated very easily if I'm repeatedly getting the same characters wrong, or totally blanking out on a set of characters over and over. :)
Doctorate Remembering the Kanji 17 3,259 2013-06-08, 9:48 am
    Thread: Anybody else start off awfully?
Post: Anybody else start off awfully?

Thanks. I will take all of your good advice. I just did a review of 60 kanji and I am now at a 92% retention rate in anki. I went back and made my own stories, as well as using some excellent stories...
Doctorate Remembering the Kanji 17 3,259 2013-06-08, 6:01 am
    Thread: Anybody else start off awfully?
Post: Anybody else start off awfully?

I'm not doing kanji > keyword. I'm only doing keyword > kanji. I just keep getting the same kanji wrong over and over. I just quit anki in frustration over this. So now I'm going back through l...
Doctorate Remembering the Kanji 17 3,259 2013-06-07, 1:25 pm
    Thread: Anybody else start off awfully?
Post: Anybody else start off awfully?

Thanks for the suggestions. I just learnt another 25 kanji and my anki "again" count for this was 51!!!! Yes, it is the stories that are a big problem. I'm not remembering the stories at all it appe...
Doctorate Remembering the Kanji 17 3,259 2013-06-07, 10:40 am
    Thread: Anybody else start off awfully?
Post: Anybody else start off awfully?

I have just started RTK book 1 with very little knowledge of Japanese. I'm good at remembering vocabulary (pronunciation). I can, with relative ease, learn and retain 300+ new words in 2 hours. I mem...
Doctorate Remembering the Kanji 17 3,259 2013-06-07, 6:48 am
    Thread: 100 Kanji a day
Post: 100 Kanji a day

Are you reviewing keyword to kanji by writing it down too? This means writing down the kanji every time you get a "keyword to kanji" review card. In my own deck, I'll have both keyword to kanji, and ...
Doctorate Remembering the Kanji 435 87,039 2013-06-06, 8:15 pm
    Thread: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners
Post: Nukemarine's Suggested Guide for Beginners

Thank you for everyone that contributed information in this topic. However, I have some major questions that I would like answered! 1. It says to start with RTK and the anki deck. Could you please go...
Doctorate The Japanese language 712 401,493 2013-06-06, 7:34 am