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Thread: What am I missing? Post: What am I missing? To me, Heisig's method is about 'remembering' the kanji so they'll be familiar and recognizable as one goes on to study other aspects of the language (like kanji compounds!). It's NOT about learning v... |
BJohnsen | Remembering the Kanji | 59 | 10,534 | 2010-06-07, 11:01 pm | ||
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Thread: That line between efficiency and laziness (mostly kanji) Post: That line between efficiency and laziness (mostly ... I suggest you read the Wikipedia entry on Kanji: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji It will give you an idea of what you're up against and perhaps give you an idea of why learning to recognize an utte... |
BJohnsen | The Japanese language | 11 | 2,598 | 2010-05-05, 2:41 am | ||
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Thread: Hey, Fellow RTKers! I made a motivational video for you! Post: Hey, Fellow RTKers! I made a motivational video fo... Oh that was great! Thank you. The sentences in 日本語 motivated me to start learning faster so I can start actually reading things.... And I also want to know the source of the music. |
BJohnsen | Remembering the Kanji | 26 | 10,439 | 2010-05-02, 1:43 am | ||
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Thread: My version of RTK Post: My version of RTK I learned early on to stick with one-sentence stories because the more words I used, the more likely it was that one or more of them would be misleading. And I also found that with practice I could ge... |
BJohnsen | Remembering the Kanji | 10 | 3,225 | 2010-04-12, 3:16 pm | ||
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Thread: English grammar question Post: English grammar question nadiatims Wrote:The 'studied' in the first sentence isn't past tense of the verb, it's the past participle (p.p). 'Had' in the second sentence is the p.p of 'have'. The p.p of a verb is often the sam... |
BJohnsen | Off topic | 32 | 6,589 | 2010-03-16, 10:43 pm | ||
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Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! Passed 514 today, twice as far as I got on my first attempt! Now I'm excited every time I recognize a kanji outside of RTK, which is a great motivator. Since I'm not in a hurry, I'm comfortable addi... |
BJohnsen | Remembering the Kanji | 526 | 167,137 | 2010-03-15, 4:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Dismayed after Skype Chat Post: Dismayed after Skype Chat thegeelonghellswan Wrote:Krashen is wrong then I guess... As I understand it, Krashen's language acquisition theories are meant to be applied in a classroom setting, with output limited to "low anxiet... |
BJohnsen | General discussion | 54 | 11,365 | 2010-03-15, 3:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Dismayed after Skype Chat Post: Dismayed after Skype Chat Try something else. I doubt if even a whole year of hip hop and anki sentences will get you much closer to conversational Korean. And be patient. Three months of anything, let alone AJAATT, is unlike... |
BJohnsen | General discussion | 54 | 11,365 | 2010-03-14, 1:39 pm | ||
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Thread: Better sleep with F.lux Post: Better sleep with F.lux I stayed up late on the computer last night for the first time since installing f.lux a week ago, and sure enough, I had no trouble at all falling asleep afterward. It's amazing. |
BJohnsen | Off topic | 47 | 19,438 | 2010-03-11, 9:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Down and out, Where do I go from here? Post: Down and out, Where do I go from here? I found that rehearsing what I wanted to say in advance was really helpful. Obviously this isn't going to get you far in a lot of social situations, but it works for run of the mill, daily routine kin... |
BJohnsen | The Japanese language | 47 | 8,191 | 2010-03-11, 12:59 am | ||
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Thread: Printed dictionary recommendations? Post: Printed dictionary recommendations? Design and typography are important to me, too, and I recommend Merriam Webster's Japanese-English Learner's Dictionary. Although it's J2E only, it fulfills all your other requirements and also includ... |
BJohnsen | General discussion | 8 | 2,274 | 2010-03-09, 2:28 pm | ||
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Thread: The Encouragement Thread Post: The Encouragement Thread @sdbtx. Looks like the Courage Wolf worked! If you reviewed 300 and only added 54 to the restudy list, you knew over 80%, which I personally consider a good review. I got out of sync recently and foun... |
BJohnsen | Remembering the Kanji | 908 | 186,087 | 2010-03-06, 5:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Better sleep with F.lux Post: Better sleep with F.lux Night has fallen. This is great! It's wonderful to have the light so...subdued. My screen isn't really pink--there's just a slight pink shadow if you drag a window around. I'm not surprised that it va... |
BJohnsen | Off topic | 47 | 19,438 | 2010-03-05, 12:28 am | ||
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Thread: Better sleep with F.lux Post: Better sleep with F.lux ファブリス Wrote:@Thora: backlit display with LEDs maybe? The iMac screen brightness is frying my eyes, it's usually at 50% :) I have my iMac screen brightness set all the way to the left, and I'd go minu... |
BJohnsen | Off topic | 47 | 19,438 | 2010-03-04, 10:20 pm | ||
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Thread: Better sleep with F.lux Post: Better sleep with F.lux Wow, this is exciting! A lifetime of surfing in the tropics has left me with very early stage macular degeneration, and blue light is waaay bad for the condition. This is the first thing I've heard ... |
BJohnsen | Off topic | 47 | 19,438 | 2010-03-04, 6:33 pm | ||
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Thread: For people going to Japan soon. Post: For people going to Japan soon. bodhisamaya Wrote:In the US, if a bill comes to $4.67 and I hand the cashier $5.17, half the time she will push the change back and tell me I made a mistake.:/ Really? Where I live they just e... |
BJohnsen | Off topic | 32 | 4,036 | 2010-03-02, 3:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Grammar Week Post: Grammar Week yukamina Wrote:What grammar guide is that? If you're asking me, it's the Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar by Seiichi Makino and Michio Tsutsui. It's really a reference book rather than a textbook,... |
BJohnsen | The Japanese language | 11 | 5,875 | 2010-03-01, 9:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Grammar Week Post: Grammar Week IceCream Wrote:＊ に ⑦原因 生理的・心理的な原因が多い 物音に驚く 酒に酔う 雨に濡れる Ice Cream, pardon me if I'm hijacking your thread, but this is what I'm curious about: I understood に in ⑦ to indicate "the cause of... |
BJohnsen | The Japanese language | 11 | 5,875 | 2010-03-01, 6:34 pm | ||
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Thread: One rat race after another... Post: One rat race after another... Oh yes, it's the temporal equivalent of nickel and dime-ing yourself to death. I do two things: 1) I make a short (2-10 items, including phone calls) daily list of things to do and limit myself to t... |
BJohnsen | Off topic | 47 | 7,071 | 2010-02-09, 9:09 pm | ||
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Thread: I feel like I'm doing something wrong... Post: I feel like I'm doing something wrong... georgative Wrote:I also started recently writing a lot of the stuff out. I actually really enjoy writing the kanji, and it seems to help me remember the readings.. but like Nukemarine points out, it m... |
BJohnsen | The Japanese language | 16 | 5,247 | 2010-02-08, 11:26 pm | ||
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Thread: Users study methods Post: Users study methods Are the Japanese Graded Readers like the JLPT, with level 4 being the easiest, or do they go the other way? @vileru, they are downloadable--just google "JGR pdfs". |
BJohnsen | The Japanese language | 178 | 128,261 | 2010-02-08, 2:12 am | ||
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Thread: (drum roll) JLPT RESULTS! Post: (drum roll) JLPT RESULTS! You can download PDFs of sample questions for the new (2010) Levels 1-5 tests at (url)http://www.jlpt.jp/e/about/new-jlpt.html(/url). And can someone please tell me how to make the damn tags go away? |
BJohnsen | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 50 | 16,126 | 2010-02-03, 4:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Apple Tablet Day! Post: Apple Tablet Day! Codexus Wrote:I don't get why Apple's marketing is so successful. The low bar set by Microsoft products? Just guessing. It's obviously Apple's entry into the eBook reader market. Kind of a reader wit... |
BJohnsen | Off topic | 37 | 6,279 | 2010-01-27, 5:52 pm | ||
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Thread: What would be the proper way to ask this? Post: What would be the proper way to ask this? ocircle Wrote:If you want to ask what a show is called, I'd go with この番組の名前はなんですか? Am I wrong, then, about 名前 only being used for given names? (One of the perils of self-study, for me, is that I don't... |
BJohnsen | The Japanese language | 12 | 2,862 | 2010-01-27, 3:59 pm | ||
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Thread: What would be the proper way to ask this? Post: What would be the proper way to ask this? ocircle Wrote:If you want to ask what a show is called, I'd go with この番組の名前はなんですか? Am I wrong, then, about 名前 only being used for given names? One of the perils of self-study is that you don't get cor... |
BJohnsen | The Japanese language | 12 | 2,862 | 2010-01-27, 3:53 pm | ||
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Thread: What would be the proper way to ask this? Post: What would be the proper way to ask this? I'm no expert (and would be happy to be corrected), but I'd say この番組は何と言いますか。I'd want to say "what is it called" instead of "what is its name", because AFAIK 名前 is used for given names, while things a... |
BJohnsen | The Japanese language | 12 | 2,862 | 2010-01-27, 3:42 pm | ||
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Thread: Progress in Japanese (Constructive criticism is welcome) Post: Progress in Japanese (Constructive criticism is we... What works for me is exchanging emails with a Japanese friend. Her 英語 is much better than my 日本語 (semi-fluent vs. functional), so we started out mostly in english and simple Japanese, and have progres... |
BJohnsen | General discussion | 37 | 5,302 | 2010-01-26, 6:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Progress in Japanese (Constructive criticism is welcome) Post: Progress in Japanese (Constructive criticism is we... Erubey Wrote:Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go trawl forums until I can find someone having trouble with ツ シ ソ ン and ノ so that I can make fun of them. Maybe that will make me feel better. Oh ... |
BJohnsen | General discussion | 37 | 5,302 | 2010-01-23, 2:56 pm | ||
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Thread: You are now all my friends. Post: You are now all my friends. LazyNomad Wrote:I am not sure if the stories should be bizzare at all times, as Heisig suggested to do. In fact, if I can see a simple and logical meaning in kanji I woild better stick to it, then try... |
BJohnsen | Remembering the Kanji | 34 | 6,646 | 2010-01-21, 10:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Reasons for learning japanese? Post: Reasons for learning japanese? I studied Latin through high school and college (planning on a science career) but always wanted to buck the American monolingual trend and learn a modern, spoken language. Then I went to Japan severa... |
BJohnsen | General discussion | 36 | 9,212 | 2010-01-16, 3:22 am | ||
