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    Thread: Why bother to learn to write the kanji by hand?
Post: Why bother to learn to write the kanji by hand?

NightSky Wrote:I've only skimmed the thread, but it seems funny to me how the more experienced hands seem to think being able to write is not so important, whereas the beginners think its extremely im...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 89 12,565 2014-08-04, 12:48 pm
    Thread: Revisiting the movie method: how to order the onyomi
Post: Revisiting the movie method: how to order the onyo...

Really the shortcut to learning readings is to get your ear used to Japanese words. E.g., why learn a reading of 生 is せい in isolation by pure memorization, when you probably already know, or would so...
vosmiura Learning resources 11 3,325 2014-08-03, 10:30 pm
    Thread: Revisiting the movie method: how to order the onyomi
Post: Revisiting the movie method: how to order the onyo...

"I'll have a large order of onyomi with fries and a coke." The way to order the onyomi! Ok, jokes aside you might want to look at the table of contents of this book for the N2 kanji ordered by onyom...
vosmiura Learning resources 11 3,325 2014-08-03, 8:40 pm
    Thread: Input consistency
Post: Input consistency

There are no rules about adding cards really. However since this is over 2000 items it's a long process, so you'll want to go steady and target small milestones like finishing chapters.
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 16 3,080 2014-08-03, 2:22 pm
    Thread: How long did it take you to finish RtK 1?
Post: How long did it take you to finish RtK 1?

@jeffberhow, good to know. I haven't tried it for kanji. I used 0.08 as a first interval because that was about how long it too me to do a review. If I was doing it for kanji, they take longer to r...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 39 10,024 2014-08-02, 2:25 am
    Thread: Why bother to learn to write the kanji by hand?
Post: Why bother to learn to write the kanji by hand?

Even with RTK, writing words is it's own skill still. If you don't practice writing words then you'll only remember how to write a fraction of the words. I don't practice writing words, so even thou...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 89 12,565 2014-08-02, 1:49 am
    Thread: number of anki reviews too high?
Post: number of anki reviews too high?

Stansfield123, several questions so I guess I can just describe how I've been doing things lately. I've been keeping both a sentence deck and a vocab deck. - My sentence deck is for learning word mea...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 10 2,433 2014-08-02, 12:31 am
    Thread: How long did it take you to finish RtK 1?
Post: How long did it take you to finish RtK 1?

For the old RTK with 2040 kanji it took me about 100 days. You might consider following the RTK Lite order, which is a subset of around 1000 kanji covering JLPT N2, that way you'll cover the most com...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 39 10,024 2014-08-01, 7:09 pm
    Thread: number of anki reviews too high?
Post: number of anki reviews too high?

Vocab recognition is quick. I'm averaging 3.2s on that, testing reading & meaning. For RTK I usually go through the steps of writing it in my palm & counting the strokes, so it takes me on a...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 10 2,433 2014-08-01, 6:34 pm
    Thread: number of anki reviews too high?
Post: number of anki reviews too high?

Don't worry, the review count for 2200 is not going to be 30 times what you have today :-). A lot of the reviews come from newly studied cards. If you stopped studying more kanji now, after 1 month ...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 10 2,433 2014-08-01, 5:41 pm
    Thread: How should i use this book?
Post: How should i use this book?

hyeok Wrote:ive read the instruction but what i dont get is when i look at a kanji what are the steps of memorizing it. The introduction in the book tells you what to do. In a nutshell, focus on a vi...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 14 3,525 2014-07-31, 4:11 am
    Thread: How important are the details?
Post: How important are the details?

Getting the strokes of something like 月 right is more for beautiful writing. You don't really have to get those perfect right away. Just pay attention to them, maybe trace / write the kanji when you...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 8 1,690 2014-07-30, 11:41 am
    Thread: How should i use this book?
Post: How should i use this book?

Read the book introduction. You don't repeatedly write the kanji, you learn stories and review going from keyword to story to kanji. RTK1 has stories in the book in the first sections, then after ju...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 14 3,525 2014-07-30, 2:51 am
    Thread: New member starting out!
Post: New member starting out!

I found some posts from people who completed Core 6k here: http://iknow.jp/qa/topics/496-Anyone-com...id-it-take One person says 250h to master Core6k after doing RTK, and comments: Quote:If you lea...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 7 1,488 2014-07-30, 12:00 am
    Thread: Why bother to learn to write the kanji by hand?
Post: Why bother to learn to write the kanji by hand?

Kanji is intimidating to learners. It can be a mental barrier that stops people from even thinking about learning Japanese to an advanced level as they get stuck at a few hundred kanji level. RTK is...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 89 12,565 2014-07-29, 11:16 pm
    Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology
Post: Mighty Morphin Morphology

jeffberhow Wrote:Hello, I'm having an issue with the UnboundError that others have had without a clear solution. The UnboundError is "local variable 'tagNames' referenced before assignment" I am usin...
vosmiura Learning resources 443 135,808 2014-07-29, 5:00 am
    Thread: About making recognition-style deck for Core 2k/6k Optimized Japanese.
Post: About making recognition-style deck for Core 2k/6k...

Oh right, I think the tags like "{{# TransIntrans}}&nbsp;<span class=trans>({{TransIntrans}})</span>{{/ TransIntrans}}" are conditionally displayed, but if the field 'TransIntrans' is ...
vosmiura Learning resources 5 1,580 2014-07-27, 5:50 pm
    Thread: Anki - Alarm/notification to Review New Cards?
Post: Anki - Alarm/notification to Review New Cards?

quanticism Wrote:I'm thinking of starting reviews earlier in the day and have Anki remind me to revise new and lapsed cards in the same day with steps:1 2 10 40 120 360 1440. I wonder if those learnin...
vosmiura Learning resources 6 3,468 2014-07-27, 4:08 pm
    Thread: Anki - Alarm/notification to Review New Cards?
Post: Anki - Alarm/notification to Review New Cards?

quanticism Wrote:I'm thinking of starting reviews earlier in the day and have Anki remind me to revise new and lapsed cards in the same day with steps:1 2 10 40 120 360 1440. I wonder if those learnin...
vosmiura Learning resources 6 3,468 2014-07-27, 4:05 pm
    Thread: About making recognition-style deck for Core 2k/6k Optimized Japanese.
Post: About making recognition-style deck for Core 2k/6k...

Fyi, here's the template I use for word recogniton using the corePLUS deck. I copied it from another user (sorry don't recall who it was). [Image: http://i.imgur.com/N2hC48B.jpg] Front Template ===...
vosmiura Learning resources 5 1,580 2014-07-27, 1:35 pm
    Thread: Typical problems that can arise...
Post: Typical problems that can arise...

Sztermel Wrote:Now I'm about 610 and spending 2 hours on 20 kanji along with 50 reviews 20 cards to add is quite a hassle (I set limit of cards on 50, but when increase the limit how much is reviews i...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 25 6,547 2014-07-25, 3:07 am
    Thread: Question on learning kanji readings
Post: Question on learning kanji readings

Learn the readings along with words, in Yomi order. 例文で学ぶ漢字と言葉N2 Contents example. [Image: http://i.imgur.com/eutAQkr.jpg] [Image: http://i.imgur.com/11AKUu9.jpg]
vosmiura The Japanese language 19 4,836 2014-07-22, 11:41 am
    Thread: Mighty Morphin Morphology
Post: Mighty Morphin Morphology

Do any of you know how to add a custom dictionary to Mecab? It would be good to be able to add a list of proper names that Mecab would otherwise mis-interpret. It seems there's a way to specify cust...
vosmiura Learning resources 443 135,808 2014-07-22, 4:21 am
    Thread: Core 10k - optimized i+1 version
Post: Core 10k - optimized i+1 version

liverpoolfc Wrote:so i added this deck to anki as well as the pictures, does anyone know how to delete the whole batch of pictures while keeping my progress saved?? You could either delete the images ...
vosmiura Learning resources 348 90,739 2014-07-22, 12:42 am
    Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . .
Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . .

Odin89, of course we get used to digesting whole patterns like 微妙 and in other contexts. IMO we do RTK because it's still valuable to recognize a kanji and it's core meaning in isolation because it's...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 56 10,098 2014-07-22, 12:14 am
    Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . .
Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . .

anotherjohn Wrote:vosmiura Wrote:Advising him to drop RTK is basically saying throw away hundreds of hours of effort down the toilet. Aside: time already spent (and possibly wasted) doing something is...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 56 10,098 2014-07-21, 6:04 pm
    Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . .
Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . .

You have to take into account that the familiarity RTK creates with each kanji is a significant help in learning and distinguishing new words as well. Also as far as just getting enough exposure, wor...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 56 10,098 2014-07-21, 5:00 pm
    Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . .
Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . .

Odin89, getting familiar with radicals requires learning just a few hundred kanji. He has already finished all RTK kanji, which is a much higher effort than becoming familiar with kanji components. ...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 56 10,098 2014-07-21, 4:21 pm
    Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . .
Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . .

I guess you're having review hell because you've reset all your interval progress by restarting in Anki, and are adding new cards at a rapid rate. When I finished RTK1 at a regular pace I had reviews...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 56 10,098 2014-07-21, 3:18 am
    Thread: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . .
Post: Want to stop reviewing RTK. . .

I'm sorry I don't have a good tip for how to quit RTK reviews, but I will warn you that you may forget all the writing if you don't practice it. I did that, and over the years went from knowing them ...
vosmiura Remembering the Kanji 56 10,098 2014-07-21, 1:51 am