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Thread: Exact Japanese subs for dramas and anime Post: Exact Japanese subs for dramas and anime Here's the thread that explains how to capture the subs: http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/viewtopic_58171.htm |
Magnadoodle | Learning resources | 55 | 64,697 | 2008-07-08, 5:15 pm | ||
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Thread: New Kanji RPG for Remembering The Kanji Post: New Kanji RPG for Remembering The Kanji I can't see the kanji! What encoding do you need to set your system to? (Applocale doesn't work with this btw) |
Magnadoodle | Learning resources | 5 | 3,227 | 2008-06-21, 2:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese Transcriptions Collection Post: Japanese Transcriptions Collection Dramas: http://jdrama.cc/ http://www.d-addicts.com/forum/subtitles.php#Japanese |
Magnadoodle | Learning resources | 3 | 2,318 | 2008-06-11, 5:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Mnemonics for kanji compounds? Post: Mnemonics for kanji compounds? It doesn't seem like anyone has mentioned this but one of the biggest problems with using mnemonics for learning words is that they might conflict with kanji mnemonics. More mnemonics = more confusion... |
Magnadoodle | General discussion | 26 | 6,027 | 2008-06-03, 10:00 pm | ||
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Thread: How long until the forget storm hits me? Post: How long until the forget storm hits me? Ok, maybe it's a personal thing, but we could provide a list of potentially confusing keywords for every kanji so that you can at least look through it and see if it will be confusing for you. |
Magnadoodle | Remembering the Kanji | 16 | 2,516 | 2008-05-24, 4:04 pm | ||
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Thread: How long until the forget storm hits me? Post: How long until the forget storm hits me? I guess there's no single point in time at which you will start forgetting. But I would say, just go as fast as you can in the beginning until you start getting confused. But don't rush it so much tha... |
Magnadoodle | Remembering the Kanji | 16 | 2,516 | 2008-05-24, 10:43 am | ||
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Thread: Sentence mining - collections? Post: Sentence mining - collections? Quote:I think what would be a cool idea is to set up a database, with some kind of quality mechanism. People could enter in their correct sentences along with supporting information (definitions, expl... |
Magnadoodle | General discussion | 28 | 8,924 | 2008-05-24, 9:12 am | ||
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Thread: Chatting in Japanese Resources Post: Chatting in Japanese Resources There's also Yahoo Japan chat, but the japanese version of yahoo messenger only works properly if you change the encoding for non-unicode characters. AppLocale won't work as it causes the thing to cra... |
Magnadoodle | Learning resources | 8 | 1,969 | 2008-05-04, 5:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Another reading question Post: Another reading question Great question really, I would say いっかい、にかい. でも推測だけです。 And since this topic also seems to be about begging for mixi invites, I would say: ミクシに誘ってお願いします。 email: yahoo.co.jp で tatemonozutto |
Magnadoodle | General discussion | 6 | 1,587 | 2008-05-04, 5:13 pm | ||
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Thread: I get tense when I study? Post: I get tense when I study? As I was learning japanese, I realised that it was harder than I tought at first. And the more I learned, the more I realised how it's actually even harder than i previously tought it was. I'm sure so... |
Magnadoodle | General discussion | 24 | 11,921 | 2008-04-29, 7:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji to Keyword - anyone else expieriencing this? Post: Kanji to Keyword - anyone else expieriencing this? Quote:This whole 'messing up the SRS System with seeing Kanji before the time is up' is somewhat stupid anyway, I guess. Actually, it's pretty important. One of the features of the SRS system is that ... |
Magnadoodle | Remembering the Kanji | 16 | 3,955 | 2008-04-18, 6:36 pm | ||
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Thread: What happened to jlpt.info? Post: What happened to jlpt.info? The tests are available as of now. You can access them quickly by playing with the following URL: http://jlpt.info/jlpt/jlptexamine.do?year=1991&level=2 |
Magnadoodle | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 3 | 7,482 | 2008-03-30, 2:58 pm | ||
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Thread: Lack of motivation after finishing RtK1 Post: Lack of motivation after finishing RtK1 Here's what I did after Heisig (apart from forgetting it slowly). I bought a couple of books to study for JLPT2. 本語総まとめ問題集２級 nihongo somatome, a vocab book. I think it makes sense to learn words af... |
Magnadoodle | Remembering the Kanji | 23 | 7,287 | 2008-03-19, 8:30 pm | ||
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Thread: 更 = grow late or renewal? Post: 更 = grow late or renewal? I don't see the point in trying to cram in a bit of etymological knowledge by changing the primitives' names to more "correct" ones. You're only going to learn a bit more etymology and it risks making... |
Magnadoodle | Remembering the Kanji | 26 | 5,463 | 2007-12-27, 1:02 am | ||
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Thread: 更 = grow late or renewal? Post: 更 = grow late or renewal? I've replaced a lot of Heisig keywords when I thought the meaning was too far from any popular Japanese words. You just need to look a bit through the index and see if there's a conflicting keyword so... |
Magnadoodle | Remembering the Kanji | 26 | 5,463 | 2007-12-24, 1:04 pm | ||
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Thread: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig method... Post: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig m... Was it a joke? Things can sound more aggressive when written in a forum post I guess. If you compare learning 1000 vs 2000 kanjis using RTK, there's a world of difference. Getting halfway is pretty e... |
Magnadoodle | General discussion | 139 | 44,723 | 2007-12-19, 6:19 pm | ||
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Thread: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig method... Post: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig m... "How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig method." I think that's a rather provocative title considering the number of people who are actually arguing against the Heisig method on various int... |
Magnadoodle | General discussion | 139 | 44,723 | 2007-12-19, 3:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Is Japanese More Difficult to Learn Than English? Post: Is Japanese More Difficult to Learn Than English? Japanese is much harder than English. Here's a little comparison: -English has a pretty easy grammar for an Indo-European language. -The latin alphabet has only 26 letters. -Modern functional Engli... |
Magnadoodle | Off topic | 46 | 9,075 | 2007-12-06, 8:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Young learners? Post: Young learners? It would be interesting to see how a child does with RTK. I think that it's possible, just that some keywords would be abstract and might need to be changed. But would the book be useful at all? To ... |
Magnadoodle | General discussion | 20 | 3,459 | 2007-11-29, 8:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Adverse effects of RTK1? Post: Adverse effects of RTK1? I wonder how RTK could affect you negatively. Sure, the first time you see a kanji used in a word, you will have to try to recall the story, so that will be very slow, but once you see it a few times,... |
Magnadoodle | General discussion | 27 | 6,461 | 2007-11-22, 10:55 am | ||
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Thread: New Here...Question on Organization/Schedule Post: New Here...Question on Organization/Schedule Quote:Spoken Japanese is the hardest aspect of the language That's not necessarily true. Before I started RTK, my spoken Japanese was much better than my written Japanese as I knew few kanjis. It depe... |
Magnadoodle | General discussion | 18 | 3,820 | 2007-11-21, 7:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Recall rate Post: Recall rate Quote:Is a kanji considered learned right after you finished writing your story 1st time? Is it learned after a few hours? Is it learned after you've had at least 1 successful recall after 24 hours?... |
Magnadoodle | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 4,526 | 2007-11-19, 10:14 am | ||
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Thread: Recall rate Post: Recall rate I think the recall rate is not really that important while you are doing RTK. If you follow the Leitner system, then you will see the failed cards all the time and you'll eventually get to remember th... |
Magnadoodle | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 4,526 | 2007-11-18, 11:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese TV downloads Post: Japanese TV downloads Thanks for the shows. I've only downloaded one though as they're a bit on the heavy side. It would be amazing if you could use a codec like xvid or x264 to bring the file size down a bit. |
Magnadoodle | General discussion | 67 | 17,275 | 2007-11-16, 12:52 pm | ||
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Thread: What would be the best design for flashcards? Post: What would be the best design for flashcards? The best way to learn grammar points would be to get a textbook with good explanations and example sentences. Right now, I'm using the Kanzen Master 2kyuu grammar book and it's really good. It groups ... |
Magnadoodle | Learning resources | 7 | 1,863 | 2007-11-14, 4:42 pm | ||
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Thread: RtK 3 kanji & keyword list Post: RtK 3 kanji & keyword list Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. |
Magnadoodle | Remembering the Kanji | 2 | 1,959 | 2007-11-11, 10:09 am | ||
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Thread: Why keep ambiguous keywords? Post: Why keep ambiguous keywords? The simplest way to get rid of this problem is to clarify the keywords by changing them slightly. Party could become Political Party. Post, workpost. It's also true that it's not important to use the... |
Magnadoodle | Remembering the Kanji | 5 | 1,508 | 2007-11-09, 7:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Hello, folks. A newbie here. Post: Hello, folks. A newbie here. Learning 2042 kanjis and learning about a 100 kanas is not the same thing. You might be able to get as far as 300 or 500 kanjis without creating good stories, but you won't be able to finish the book.... |
Magnadoodle | General discussion | 21 | 4,309 | 2007-11-07, 11:37 am | ||
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Thread: 3 Japanese Novels: Please help me select them. Post: 3 Japanese Novels: Please help me select them. I would love to read Soseki, Mishima or Tanizaki in japanese and I'm jealous of you guys. At what level do you think I could start reading them? I guess that the difficulty must be above that of JLPT ... |
Magnadoodle | General discussion | 11 | 2,844 | 2007-11-07, 12:14 am | ||
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Thread: Hello, folks. A newbie here. Post: Hello, folks. A newbie here. Welcome to this forum Ether. Here are a couple of tips I would give based on my experience with the book. -RTK will take lots of time and concentration, so don't give up if things slow down at some... |
Magnadoodle | General discussion | 21 | 4,309 | 2007-11-06, 11:52 pm | ||
