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Thread: Not knowing English keywords Post: Not knowing English keywords I thought some of the words were obscure, until I stumbled upon a godown full of catalpa just about a ri from my house. |
cbogart | Remembering the Kanji | 22 | 4,805 | 2007-03-18, 6:32 pm | ||
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Thread: Is this the right way to go about it? Post: Is this the right way to go about it? When learning a new kanji I often first look at the keyword and see what image already comes to mind, before even looking at the elements or the character. Then I work the elements into that image. ... |
cbogart | Remembering the Kanji | 31 | 7,095 | 2007-01-11, 1:18 am | ||
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Thread: Subverting Leitner? Post: Subverting Leitner? laxxy wrote: As about the visual memory -- ex post i think I didn't use it enough. It is a great and powerful tool, it's just that its' capacity is limited in the sense that you can only use it to me... |
cbogart | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 3,085 | 2006-12-23, 1:18 pm | ||
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Thread: Subverting Leitner? Post: Subverting Leitner? Laxxy wrote: if I need to think about the answer for more than a few seconds it's best to just fail the card, as I would have to think more still next time if I don't. I've been working on the opposi... |
cbogart | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 3,085 | 2006-12-22, 5:35 pm | ||
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Thread: How many kanji per day? Post: How many kanji per day? I only write down stories for kanji that I've missed several times, in the hopes that it'll cement my memory of it. Normally, though, I just spend a moment fleshing out the story in my mind -- if I c... |
cbogart | Remembering the Kanji | 19 | 5,751 | 2006-12-22, 5:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Subverting Leitner? Post: Subverting Leitner? I don't think reviewing the same cards every day helps very much. It's the painful task of pulling it back up after 3 or 7 or 14 days of having the discipline *not* to look at it, that really trains ... |
cbogart | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 3,085 | 2006-12-21, 10:56 pm | ||
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Thread: How many kanji per day? Post: How many kanji per day? I'm doing 10 a day: I look at 10 new ones before bed, then add and test them first thing in the morning, along with the reviews that come up. If I forget and I'm really pooped, I at least try to lear... |
cbogart | Remembering the Kanji | 19 | 5,751 | 2006-12-19, 9:21 am | ||
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Thread: What do you wish you'd known when you were starting out? Post: What do you wish you'd known when you were startin... I'm finding that when I assign a person to a radical, I rarely forget it. Maybe it's just me, but so often when I can't remember a kanji, I at least know it's got Mr. T (person) in it, but I won't re... |
cbogart | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 5,560 | 2006-12-17, 11:31 am | ||
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Thread: kanji recall rate statistics Post: kanji recall rate statistics I've been keeping track lately of the changes in the number of kanji in my rightmost pile. I'm just past 1000 this week, and I have a little over 600 in that pile. I've been failing some old ones I ... |
cbogart | Remembering the Kanji | 21 | 5,454 | 2006-11-06, 10:38 pm | ||
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Thread: kanji recall rate statistics Post: kanji recall rate statistics I wonder if kanji like "1" and "2" don't show up as easiest because they're the first ones in the book, and people that drive by the site to check it out may just be pressing buttons to experiment. |
cbogart | Remembering the Kanji | 21 | 5,454 | 2006-11-06, 10:55 am | ||
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Thread: こげぱん ! (kogepan) Short animation with kana Post: こげぱん ! (kogepan) Short animation with kana ファブリス Wrote:やけをおこす。 自棄を起こす。 The sub says "peels the burnt parts" but according to EDICT "burnt/scald" is 火傷【やけど】, and I don't find "peel" with this kana, so I would say it means "raises desperation"..... |
cbogart | General discussion | 5 | 3,914 | 2006-10-29, 12:50 pm | ||
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Thread: Your favourite story by someone else Post: Your favourite story by someone else Ha! I just got to "beat" (撃), and I love Inuki's short but schweet story: "Your car has missles?! That beats mine, hands down." |
cbogart | Remembering the Kanji | 61 | 24,721 | 2006-10-14, 8:14 am | ||
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Thread: Starting again... Post: Starting again... I did the first 300 or so, then took a 10-year break, and I'm back at it now. I threw about the first 150 on the new card pile, plowed through them, then started adding 10 a day since then. It's wor... |
cbogart | Remembering the Kanji | 10 | 2,328 | 2006-10-04, 12:41 am | ||
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Thread: Trigger Words Post: Trigger Words I like to give myself as long as necessary to remember a kanji; sometimes I'll sit there for 30s to 1m racking my brains. My thinking is that I'm exercising my memory, and that a difficult-but-succes... |
cbogart | Remembering the Kanji | 2 | 1,053 | 2006-10-02, 7:58 am | ||
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Thread: Similar codewords Post: Similar codewords I'd suggest, with the abstract words, to think of a common, concrete, situation where it would be used distinctly from its synonyms. For example "solely" makes me think of a click through software di... |
cbogart | Remembering the Kanji | 11 | 2,474 | 2006-09-29, 10:28 pm | ||