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    Thread: I finish core 2000, but want learning the 6000 with nukemarine deck
Post: I finish core 2000, but want learning the 6000 wit...

This might work: 1. Tag all your Core2000 cards "Core2000" 2. Export your Core2000 deck as text file 3. Import your Core2000 cards into Core6000 deck. Import ONLY the "Expression" field + "Tag" field...
Seren Learning resources 2 642 2013-06-27, 6:49 pm
    Thread: Advice on On and Kun Readings?
Post: Advice on On and Kun Readings?

Personal anecdote: I went over all the kun and on readings of RTK1 last summer. I created a "primitive" for every on-reading possibility and a primitive for single kana and some double kana. (e.g. かた=...
Seren The Japanese language 17 7,379 2013-05-28, 5:31 pm
    Thread: Understanding of RTK2 method
Post: Understanding of RTK2 method

Personally I haven't used the RTK2 but I used a homebrew variant of the Movie Method and I assume the reading is X based on a certain primitive but then remember exceptions. e.g. 召=ショウ, but when I se...
Seren Remembering the Kanji 9 3,629 2012-09-22, 4:10 pm
    Thread: Why is Japanese pitch accent almost never taught?
Post: Why is Japanese pitch accent almost never taught?

Incidentally, in my second or third class of Japanese 1 the teacher spent about 10 minutes explaining what it was (high and low), and then pointed in the textbook to the lines above words indicating t...
Seren General discussion 133 26,569 2012-09-22, 12:39 pm
    Thread: New Jouyou Kanji; Old Forms or New Forms?
Post: New Jouyou Kanji; Old Forms or New Forms?

warakawa Wrote:http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=9712 The thread is somewhat ambiguous. I'm interpreting that it says to use the one NOT in the bracket (i.e. the older forms) for the official...
Seren The Japanese language 5 1,009 2012-09-18, 8:23 am
    Thread: New Jouyou Kanji; Old Forms or New Forms?
Post: New Jouyou Kanji; Old Forms or New Forms?

I'm trying to learn the 196 new jouyou kanji but I can't seem to figure out which forms are supposed to be used. I've been looking at http://www.kanken.or.jp/teido/pdf/national_list.pdf (last two page...
Seren The Japanese language 5 1,009 2012-09-18, 8:14 am
    Thread: Kanji number 544 "Intestines" and 851 "Entrails"
Post: Kanji number 544 "Intestines" and 851 "Entrails"

What I do is I look up the words using these kanji. Compare: http://jisho.org/words?jap=*%E8%85%B8*&eng=&dict=edict http://jisho.org/words?jap=*%E8%87%93*&eng=&dict=edict 腸 seems to...
Seren Remembering the Kanji 6 1,739 2012-09-09, 9:45 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

ryuudou Wrote:Seren Wrote:Finished! My journey looked like this: http://s10.postimage.org/pb0zif7dl/Finished_RTK1.png That's awesome. How did you make that graph? Microsoft Excel. In its basic form ...
Seren Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,638 2012-09-02, 8:48 pm
    Thread: kanji with opposite meaning embedded
Post: kanji with opposite meaning embedded

Maybe interpret the word as "having a strong smell", whether this smell is fragrant or not so fragrant. Compare 辛, which you could take to mean spicy/bitter/salty etc. I interpret this as "having a di...
Seren The Japanese language 4 1,077 2012-08-28, 11:02 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Finished! My journey looked like this: [Image: http://s10.postimage.org/pb0zif7dl/Finished_RTK1.png]
Seren Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,638 2012-08-28, 3:15 pm
    Thread: New Frames from revised editions
Post: New Frames from revised editions

If you already have the card 154A somewhere in your deck, you could just review your new cards in the normal order (1,2,3,...,150,151,152,153,154,155,...) and when you reach 154, go into Anki's card b...
Seren Remembering the Kanji 1 633 2012-07-11, 6:26 pm
    Thread: Am I studying the wrong way? What are stories for? Review? Study?
Post: Am I studying the wrong way? What are stories for?...

Generally if you need to refer to the story, people will count the card as failed. I believe Heisig may say that referring to the story is okay when trying to write the kanji in his Introduction, but ...
Seren Remembering the Kanji 5 1,698 2012-07-01, 8:00 pm
    Thread: A list of jōyō kanji lookalikes
Post: A list of jōyō kanji lookalikes

I've confused 室窒 upon seeing them (but not writing), because I don't pay enough attention as to whether or not the top primitive is roof or hole.
Seren Learning resources 8 6,411 2012-07-01, 1:51 pm
    Thread: Hittin' the wall during lesson 23 ....
Post: Hittin' the wall during lesson 23 ....

1) Absolutely keep up to date with your reviews 2) Study at least a few kanji per day so you don't lose the habit of studying new kanji (around that time I think I was averaging 10-15 new kanji per da...
Seren Remembering the Kanji 12 3,745 2012-06-28, 8:05 pm
    Thread: AnkiEmperor - Build your own empire (aka AnkiWarrior 2.0)
Post: AnkiEmperor - Build your own empire (aka AnkiWarri...

HonyakuJoshua Wrote:it might just be me being retarded, but the sound sometimes turns on when I turn it off? This is quite embarrassing when I play in a cafe. This has happened to me twice, to corroba...
Seren Learning resources 180 53,083 2012-06-21, 6:54 pm
    Thread: 旋 in handwriting (and right side of 既)
Post: 旋 in handwriting (and right side of 既)

The handwriting stroke order font I use in my Anki decks and most online sources (but not all) show the handwriting for 旋 like this: http://jisho.org/kanji/details/%E6%97%8B, where the first stroke of...
Seren Remembering the Kanji 1 1,042 2012-06-08, 2:02 pm
    Thread: Core2k/6k Deck - removing the hiragana from the [] after each Kanji
Post: Core2k/6k Deck - removing the hiragana from the []...

You would have to export your deck to excel to do it easily. Then, try in excel to use the replace function (Select the cloze-deleted sentence field column, then press Ctrl+F and navigate to replace (...
Seren Learning resources 18 5,906 2012-06-06, 12:03 am
    Thread: Dictionary definitions of English RTK keywords
Post: Dictionary definitions of English RTK keywords

I'm also going through RTK1 (say approximately 1400) and so I may be wrong, but would it be possible to verify the following: 328|津|haven|A place of safety or refuge Does it instead mean "A harbour o...
Seren Remembering the Kanji 5 8,093 2012-05-28, 11:53 am
    Thread: Pitch Accent Lookup (Python Script)
Post: Pitch Accent Lookup (Python Script)

Update! I have a primitive Anki plugin that will look up the pitch accent for the current card you are reviewing. (Anki 1.2.X) https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5wqBC4...DNwWkVEZ3M Extract this fil...
Seren The Japanese language 12 5,372 2012-05-09, 5:17 pm
    Thread: Pitch Accent Lookup (Python Script)
Post: Pitch Accent Lookup (Python Script)

Thank you Thora for this information. In reply to partner, Irixmark, Tori-kun: I'm not a frequent programmer, so I've never used/know how to use GitHub. I actually haven't done any programming in th...
Seren The Japanese language 12 5,372 2012-05-09, 12:43 pm
    Thread: Pitch Accent Lookup (Python Script)
Post: Pitch Accent Lookup (Python Script)

Hello everyone, Introduction I wrote a script to automatically look up the pitch accent of entries in a spreadsheet because I plan on beginning Core6k in a month or two and would like to have the p...
Seren The Japanese language 12 5,372 2012-05-08, 7:55 pm
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

I paused RTK1 at 872 frames to learn the Onyomi readings of the kanji I had learnt so far after reading about the Movie Method. What I did was I treated each different sound as a Heisig "primitive" (t...
Seren General discussion 1,389 294,531 2012-04-21, 1:29 pm
    Thread: Considering making a video on Pitch Accent - What do you want to know?
Post: Considering making a video on Pitch Accent - What ...

It would also be appreciated if you would explicitly make clear the difference between stressing a syllable like we do in English (what not to do) and pitch accent. Also, pitch accent between words/f...
Seren The Japanese language 33 6,538 2012-04-19, 12:05 pm
    Thread: User Defined Primitives
Post: User Defined Primitives

See http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...3#pid38513 and http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...9#pid14259 A few I've used: 215 燥 parch -> 喿 is used to mean furniture by the top story T...
Seren Remembering the Kanji 3 1,577 2012-04-15, 3:20 pm
    Thread: Kanji Frequency in Wikipedia
Post: Kanji Frequency in Wikipedia

http://www.2shared.com/document/asuKWv_B...edia4.html I sorted the kanji frequency on wikipedia into the following categories: RTK1 RTK3 RTK Supplement (3008-3030) Jinmeiyou Other and plotted it in...
Seren General discussion 78 75,001 2012-03-25, 10:58 pm