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    Thread: Nazotte Oboeru (DS) and kanji retention
Post: Nazotte Oboeru (DS) and kanji retention

@GreenAirth: True, Nazotte itself is not enough to memorize the kanji; my current approach is to write down every kanji/word that is new to me in Anki and keep reviewing. I tried Heisig before, got up...
aureo Learning resources 8 3,615 2011-07-13, 11:32 am
    Thread: Nazotte Oboeru (DS) and kanji retention
Post: Nazotte Oboeru (DS) and kanji retention

@Omoishinji: Thank you for the suggestions; did try Kanken DS3 a few times, but to me nothing beats the clean interface of Nazotte Oboeru, plus the sheer amount of vocabulary I end up learning. Also I...
aureo Learning resources 8 3,615 2011-07-12, 8:47 pm
    Thread: Nazotte Oboeru (DS) and kanji retention
Post: Nazotte Oboeru (DS) and kanji retention

Anyone studying kanji through Nazotte Oboeru on the Nintendo DS recently? After reading about it on the thread on DS Kanji games some time ago, I picked up the Kaiteihan version and started from first...
aureo Learning resources 8 3,615 2011-07-12, 12:39 pm
    Thread: E-Book (PDFs) Viewer w/ "rikai-chan" function for tablets/smartphones?
Post: E-Book (PDFs) Viewer w/ "rikai-chan" function for ...

iBunko HD is great to read shift-jis or UTF-8 encoded texts in the iPad, and has access to the contents of aozora bunko. In japanese texts encoded in such ways it allows you to select the words you wa...
aureo Learning resources 7 4,734 2010-11-25, 11:35 am
    Thread: On learning everything non-language related Japanese
Post: On learning everything non-language related Japane...

Hello Jorre, I live in São Paulo, Brazil, where we have a huge local japanese community, fruit of many years of immigration. I grew up in such neighborhood, and most of my infancy I studied together ...
aureo General discussion 13 2,251 2010-11-21, 6:46 pm
    Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!
Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!

Just hit 500 today too. So far this has been fun - hope I can keep the pace. I really appreciate the effort the community put into crafting stories - most of the time it is through the community stor...
aureo Remembering the Kanji 526 167,173 2010-11-21, 6:28 pm
    Thread: How do you recall your kanji?
Post: How do you recall your kanji?

Or to put it in another way, what happens in your mind's eye when you recall a kanji you learned through RTK? To me, different things can happen: 1) Sometimes the keyword just makes the entire kanji ...
aureo Remembering the Kanji 7 2,591 2010-11-21, 6:24 pm
    Thread: Easy and free reading material
Post: Easy and free reading material

Not sure if anyone posted this yet, but a search for the URL in the forum returned no hits. So this is a site with stories for children in the 小学校 years, with separate directories for each year. The a...
aureo Learning resources 5 2,307 2010-11-18, 2:16 pm
    Thread: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?
Post: Anki iPhone app dropping soon - who's buying?

@resolve: Just bought ankimobile without having ever used anki before, because I wanted to use one of the good heisig decks available for download. Up to now, I had been using Mental Case on the iPho...
aureo Learning resources 401 86,894 2010-11-17, 11:50 am
    Thread: Starting RTK after 5 semesters in shokyuu levels
Post: Starting RTK after 5 semesters in shokyuu levels

Hello Womacks23, Thank you for sharing your experience - I believe that the results you obtained are more than enough to justify investing the time to finish RTK. And since it is so addictive, it bec...
aureo Remembering the Kanji 2 1,092 2010-11-16, 10:36 am
    Thread: Starting RTK after 5 semesters in shokyuu levels
Post: Starting RTK after 5 semesters in shokyuu levels

This is my first post after lurking around for some time- English is not my native language, so please forgive the many errors I am about to inflict you ^.^ I have been studying japanese in a formal ...
aureo Remembering the Kanji 2 1,092 2010-11-15, 7:33 pm