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Thread: Blast from the past! Post: Blast from the past! Howdy fellow kanji-nauts! Just stumbling through. I'm very pleased to see so many of my stories from more than seven(!) years ago still being useful. I'm actually really proud of that. I left Japan lo... |
dingomick | General discussion | 2 | 780 | 2013-12-04, 2:51 am | ||
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Thread: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig method... Post: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig m... IceCream Wrote:what, what?!? Ropsta is Nest0r? Thora is Jimmy Seal?? i'm lost ¬_¬ Hmmm... --Clicked on quote below instead of above. Whoops!-- *Fixed* |
dingomick | General discussion | 139 | 44,702 | 2010-10-20, 9:52 am | ||
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Thread: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig method... Post: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig m... BTW, why is this thread turning into a crapstorm...? The title itself is a troll. Share your opinion (yes, it's not a fact), and be civil. For example: after almost two years of rather fruitless Japan... |
dingomick | General discussion | 139 | 44,702 | 2010-10-20, 9:51 am | ||
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Thread: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig method... Post: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig m... JimmySeal Wrote:Apparently this is an e-peen comparing contest and we need a full set of credentials to comment on RTK. Ok... I've been reading Japanese at an adult level for 4 years now, and I'll be... |
dingomick | General discussion | 139 | 44,702 | 2010-10-20, 9:41 am | ||
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Thread: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig method... Post: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig m... nest0r Wrote:Look everyone, it's dingomick... dingomick! *awed whispers*. Dingomick is Legend. Wait, nest0r, are you still subscribed to this thread, or are you still using the site?! |
dingomick | General discussion | 139 | 44,702 | 2010-10-20, 9:34 am | ||
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Thread: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig method... Post: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig m... Not dead, but apparently still signed up to receive thread emails! Ahh the memories... =) Some insight from someone who completed Heisig 1, was in Japan for another 18 months, and has now been gone ... |
dingomick | General discussion | 139 | 44,702 | 2010-10-19, 9:33 am | ||
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Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports) Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports) I run Anki on a Macbook Pro. I have my "Previous Input" shortcut mapped to Cmd-`. Whenever I enter anything in Anki I get a remainder character that I have to delete every time I switch between charac... |
dingomick | Learning resources | 309 | 61,600 | 2008-01-17, 8:47 am | ||
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Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports) Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports) Would just like to say that you're amazing resolve. It may be just a hobby for you, but I consider Anki a professional development. Your passion adds more to the program than a paid team could. Thanks... |
dingomick | Learning resources | 309 | 61,600 | 2008-01-16, 2:03 am | ||
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Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports) Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports) BTW Resolve, lowercase works. Thanks. All the others are in caps so I assumed "Tags" would be the same. |
dingomick | Learning resources | 309 | 61,600 | 2008-01-11, 3:12 am | ||
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Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports) Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports) Great point. I agree. I don't use lists often, but I use them efficiently. My best example is when walking. Reading is too fluid to be interrupted constantly and I don't want to pay for keitai phone b... |
dingomick | Learning resources | 309 | 61,600 | 2008-01-11, 1:28 am | ||
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Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports) Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports) It's a matter of convenience. I can take a sheet of paper anywhere for basically no cost. Question of any kind (vocab, grammar, translation) in one column, answer in another. |
dingomick | Learning resources | 309 | 61,600 | 2008-01-11, 12:50 am | ||
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Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports) Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports) I've been a big fan of Tufte for a long time; I once drove 14 hours to attend one of his seminars during one of my school vacations. I think your example is improperly applied. The whole point of an S... |
dingomick | Learning resources | 309 | 61,600 | 2008-01-11, 12:35 am | ||
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Thread: Methods for collecting vocabulary Post: Methods for collecting vocabulary Just working my way through a textbook plugging vocab into Anki is my preffered method. All the vocabulary comes in context and is always varied (it won't use 食べる for every food vocab you encounter). ... |
dingomick | Learning resources | 7 | 2,361 | 2008-01-10, 10:35 pm | ||
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Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports) Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports) I can't get Tags to display in my answers. When I include %(Tags)s in the cards answer formats, it gives me error messages everywhere: [invalid format; see model properties]. I've tried every spelling... |
dingomick | Learning resources | 309 | 61,600 | 2008-01-10, 8:59 pm | ||
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Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports) Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports) Thanks for the help with my last questions. A couple more: 1. I fixed my model discrepencies so that all the cards are the same. But now every Reading field in the Edit Deck search results field disp... |
dingomick | Learning resources | 309 | 61,600 | 2008-01-09, 2:58 am | ||
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Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports) Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports) I'm pretty fast just entering by hand, but I'm working from a textbook so everything is already all in the same place. I look it up in Wakan, type my chosen definition, and enter the tags for kanken l... |
dingomick | Learning resources | 309 | 61,600 | 2008-01-08, 8:47 pm | ||
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Thread: Heisig method, where it will leave me Post: Heisig method, where it will leave me Yes, the kana. Don't mess around. Memorize your kana first. :mad: |
dingomick | Remembering the Kanji | 12 | 2,456 | 2008-01-08, 7:14 pm | ||
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Thread: Heisig method, where it will leave me Post: Heisig method, where it will leave me I also view the kanji as a large set of ABCs like CharleyGarret. My hindsight recommendation note this and puts them right after the kana. I wish I had done the kanji right away. That said, it is a hi... |
dingomick | Remembering the Kanji | 12 | 2,456 | 2008-01-08, 6:08 pm | ||
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Thread: Heisig method, where it will leave me Post: Heisig method, where it will leave me My Hindsight Recommended Course to Learning Japanese: Foundation (in this order): Hiragana/Katakana Your basis for all Japanese to come. NO ROMAJI! Pimsleur Listening Excellent introduction of essent... |
dingomick | Remembering the Kanji | 12 | 2,456 | 2008-01-08, 5:53 am | ||
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Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports) Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports) You be clever. |
dingomick | Learning resources | 309 | 61,600 | 2008-01-08, 1:23 am | ||
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Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports) Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports) Thanks for the display tips. Micromanaging a deck isn't a bad thing. I need it to focus on test materials. Here's a better description of my problem: every vocab I enter is tagged with their jouyou l... |
dingomick | Learning resources | 309 | 61,600 | 2008-01-07, 11:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Anki discussion (no bug reports) Post: Anki discussion (no bug reports) I'm using Anki to review for the Kanken next month. I have run into some issues and would like to know if there are features that already solve them or ways to get around them. A lot of it revolves ar... |
dingomick | Learning resources | 309 | 61,600 | 2008-01-07, 3:47 am | ||
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Thread: should *flower+water* be considered a primitive ?? Post: should *flower+water* be considered a primitive ?? It would be a great idea to make a primitive for that. But beware that there are a handful of the opposite also such as 満 漢. I currently just use story situations and visuals to keep things straight, ... |
dingomick | Remembering the Kanji | 13 | 5,674 | 2007-12-27, 7:46 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... Also, as for RTKLite, I've had many daydreams about making just that. It would require a bit of plotting primitives, and it may even be a good idea to start the book with a "primitive alphabet" for th... |
dingomick | General discussion | 139 | 44,702 | 2007-12-19, 7:26 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... Some responses: revenantkioku Wrote:If I can't remember the word but somehow I remember the kanji (trust me, it has happened!) I draw out the kanji on my palm in front of the person and nine times ou... |
dingomick | General discussion | 139 | 44,702 | 2007-12-19, 7:19 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... I'm with Codexus all the way. The usage of writing Japanese, or English or any world language being engulfed by technology, is definitely on the decline. But it's utter foolishness to discard it as a ... |
dingomick | General discussion | 139 | 44,702 | 2007-12-19, 2:59 am | ||
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Thread: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig method... Post: How can anyone POSSIBLY argue against the Heisig m... I agree that each user has to make the decision about where they want to go and how valuable their current time and future time is. But for myself, in hindsight, I wish I would have dedicated 3 months... |
dingomick | General discussion | 139 | 44,702 | 2007-12-18, 10:44 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... I find the "not enough time to do Heisig" argument one of the most common, but also the most laughable. It's a classic case of lack of perspective. Time invested in RTK saves time in the future. It is... |
dingomick | General discussion | 139 | 44,702 | 2007-12-18, 9:59 pm | ||
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Thread: how do i get around 'no japanese' on my work pc? Post: how do i get around 'no japanese' on my work pc? My school has cracked down hard with filtering software. This annoys me since I get so many resources from blogs and other sites like Google images (and also loaf around...) Thankfully the surfer will... |
dingomick | Learning resources | 40 | 7,802 | 2007-12-17, 8:56 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... revenantkioku Wrote:Oh, and about the keywords, once you start going into reading, they matter less and less. Sure, I still occasionally confuse some kanji keywords in my kanji review, but I don't con... |
dingomick | General discussion | 139 | 44,702 | 2007-12-17, 8:45 pm | ||
