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Thread: The "I just finished KO2001, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished KO2001, please congratulate m... After almost 2.5 years, I finally finished. Now I'm just going to focus and reading and enjoying Japanese for a while. Keep at it everyone, and don't be discouraged by people who say they did it in ... |
elmaestrokgb | General discussion | 120 | 33,799 | 2012-04-27, 9:03 pm | ||
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Thread: Strange request: Japanese equivalent of Calvin and Hobbes Post: Strange request: Japanese equivalent of Calvin and... I tried reading ドラえもん and didn't enjoy it very much. A lot of words were written with kana instead of kanji. It was really hard to understand, and the subject matter wasn't interesting enough to kee... |
elmaestrokgb | Learning resources | 16 | 7,086 | 2010-08-23, 10:35 pm | ||
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Thread: YouTube Series: Using Dramas To Improve Your Japanese Post: YouTube Series: Using Dramas To Improve Your Japan... This looks really great. Thanks for taking the time to explain everything. |
elmaestrokgb | Learning resources | 12 | 5,369 | 2010-07-09, 11:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Accounting with an SRS Post: Accounting with an SRS Why would you have to specially format or automate anything? You just use it as you would normally use flashcards, only smarter. I'm sure you'll develop all kinds of different models and methods as ... |
elmaestrokgb | Off topic | 11 | 3,287 | 2010-01-28, 3:16 pm | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Just reached 1000 cards in my Anki sentence deck. Feels like it has taken forever, especially with people posting on here about how they went through KO2001 in two weeks, or whatever. It does feel l... |
elmaestrokgb | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,524 | 2010-01-26, 1:47 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji Odyssey Sentence Effort Post: Kanji Odyssey Sentence Effort KO2001 is cool. I like KO2001. |
elmaestrokgb | Group study | 8 | 3,681 | 2009-12-02, 6:57 pm | ||
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Thread: About To Start K2001. Post: About To Start K2001. Makes sense. Sounds like you're still refining, and I imagine I'll do the same. Thanks. |
elmaestrokgb | Learning resources | 25 | 4,803 | 2009-12-01, 11:13 pm | ||
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Thread: About To Start K2001. Post: About To Start K2001. Nukemarine Wrote:Here's my opinion: Use the sentences to review a particular word in that sentence. As such, have the Kana on the question side with the word being tested in bold letters, or written ... |
elmaestrokgb | Learning resources | 25 | 4,803 | 2009-12-01, 8:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese input when you can't install IME Post: Japanese input when you can't install IME Thanks for all the suggestions. Much appreciated. |
elmaestrokgb | General discussion | 8 | 3,802 | 2009-11-25, 11:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Japanese input when you can't install IME Post: Japanese input when you can't install IME I came across this website: http://inputking.com/. It lets you input Japanese (and Chinese and Korean) in a manner similar to IME. Seems OK for people who don't always have the ability to install t... |
elmaestrokgb | General discussion | 8 | 3,802 | 2009-11-25, 3:42 pm | ||
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Thread: "Column/going/line" primitive (行) Post: "Column/going/line" primitive (行) I always imagine it as a column of soldiers marching. Seems to work. |
elmaestrokgb | Remembering the Kanji | 10 | 2,658 | 2009-11-14, 6:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Long term retention rate Post: Long term retention rate I think I'm in a similar place, although I've actually finished RTK1. If I'm being truthful, I would say I typically end up in the mid-80%s for mixed reviews of all boxes. So, I'd say we're doing ab... |
elmaestrokgb | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 2,167 | 2009-09-16, 2:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Translation PARTY! Post: Translation PARTY! @theBryan -- awesome |
elmaestrokgb | General discussion | 42 | 8,360 | 2009-08-13, 1:11 pm | ||
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Thread: Translation PARTY! Post: Translation PARTY! http://translationparty.com/tp/#1306753 Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax-- YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I LIVE IN THE PAST! becomes Moses beautiful traditional SANDIK... |
elmaestrokgb | General discussion | 42 | 8,360 | 2009-08-13, 1:01 am | ||
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Thread: How to study with Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese + learning plan/schedul? Post: How to study with Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese + le... travis Wrote:Don't bother typing in the sentences in Anki, just File->Download->Shared Decks and grab the Tae Kim grammar deck from nukemarine, that'll save some typing. Just to offer another pe... |
elmaestrokgb | The Japanese language | 33 | 13,667 | 2009-08-11, 5:22 pm | ||
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Thread: Test your English vocabulary (while fighting world hunger) Post: Test your English vocabulary (while fighting world... That's cool. The harder words have a lot of English onyomis (greek and latin roots) and English gairaigos (I got a few yiddish words). Goes to show you there are always words in your native tongue y... |
elmaestrokgb | Off topic | 19 | 2,966 | 2009-08-07, 4:13 pm | ||
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Thread: Review right after entry in Anki? When to use "easy?" Reports? Post: Review right after entry in Anki? When to use "eas... Don't worry too much about low initial percentages. The SRS is a tool, not a test. Failing a new card is just an opportunity to see it again. |
elmaestrokgb | Remembering the Kanji | 4 | 2,216 | 2009-08-07, 1:11 pm | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... Just finished, after almost 4 months. Now I can start learning the actual language and hopefully won't have to explain to people anymore how I can spend so much time studying Japanese and not be able... |
elmaestrokgb | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,633 | 2009-08-01, 11:43 pm | ||
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Thread: Just started today Post: Just started today Why not buy the book? A good chunk of the beginning is available free on the author's website. If you don't like it enough to buy it at that point, maybe you should try another method of learning th... |
elmaestrokgb | Remembering the Kanji | 12 | 1,810 | 2009-07-27, 7:40 pm | ||
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Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Keep it up everyone. Now 9/10ths of the way done, and the last 500 are flying past, relatively speaking. It's always fun to see new primitives go from being strange squiggles I saw when I peeked at ... |
elmaestrokgb | Remembering the Kanji | 462 | 138,194 | 2009-07-27, 7:37 pm | ||
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Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Finally made it to 1550. The period from 1/2 to 3/4 seemed to take forever, but now I'm more motivated than ever. In a way that long stretch was good because I just kept doing my reviews without add... |
elmaestrokgb | Remembering the Kanji | 462 | 138,194 | 2009-07-14, 8:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Half way! Post: Half way! At 1030, and I loved doing all the "person" stories. Somehow they were way more vivid than most of the previous ones. Took me about two months, so hopefully it will only take two more to finish. Be... |
elmaestrokgb | Remembering the Kanji | 616 | 180,458 | 2009-06-08, 5:42 pm | ||
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Thread: "plane" vs. "level" Post: "plane" vs. "level" to me, a "plane" is a tool used for flattening a piece of wood. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(tool). I imagine sparks shooting off to the left as a guy grinds his saber down into a plane blade... |
elmaestrokgb | Remembering the Kanji | 8 | 1,369 | 2009-05-19, 1:37 am | ||
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Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! 580 for me. It's been harder these last couple of weeks because of various other things in my life, but since I've at least kept up the reviews, everything is shifting into the last two boxes, so I c... |
elmaestrokgb | Remembering the Kanji | 526 | 167,132 | 2009-05-18, 4:16 pm | ||