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    Thread: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" thread
Post: The "I just finished RTK3, please follow me" threa...

Greetings, fellow RTK3 finishers! It's only taken me seven and a bit years to get here, but I've finally made it. I wholeheartedly echo NeoGlitch's exhortation to never stop reviewing...I restarted i...
Django Remembering the Kanji 93 58,967 2014-12-31, 11:54 am
    Thread: Need Advice: Cannot Remember Stories
Post: Need Advice: Cannot Remember Stories

I don't know if this is the case with you, but I found that an over-reliance on the stories provided by Heisig in the early chapters of RTK I hindered my ability to create truly imaginative stories. I...
Django Remembering the Kanji 6 1,889 2014-11-11, 10:52 am
    Thread: Did anyone take a break at the 1000 mark?
Post: Did anyone take a break at the 1000 mark?

Weatherman's idea sounds good - I think that what matters is not losing sight of the bigger objective of learning to read and write in Japanese; if you stop studying kanji altogether, when you come ba...
Django Remembering the Kanji 20 4,379 2014-10-30, 9:43 am
    Thread: Input consistency
Post: Input consistency

It sounds to me as though your approach is pretty sound. As others have mentioned, the biggest burden can often be an unwelcoming number of kanji piled up in the review stacks. I don't think that ther...
Django Remembering the Kanji 16 3,082 2014-08-28, 6:14 am
    Thread: Changing my approach to RtK
Post: Changing my approach to RtK

Don't forget that you can add cards to your deck in any order you choose; this effectively means that if you don't manage to get through all of the RTK I kanji before your classes start up again (or ...
Django Remembering the Kanji 3 1,100 2014-08-28, 5:58 am
    Thread: Garment (衣) #396, primitive
Post: Garment (衣) #396, primitive

Using the examples that you have given, as howdycowdy has pointed out, there is nothing beneath (or under) the scarf element itself for 400 or 403, and therefore the second stroke of the scarf element...
Django Remembering the Kanji 12 4,781 2008-05-07, 7:12 am
    Thread: Monolinguals
Post: Monolinguals

sounds interesting, Mighty_Matt. Would love to hear more.
Django General discussion 37 6,479 2008-02-07, 8:36 pm
    Thread: Wikipedia in Japanese (ウィキペディア)
Post: Wikipedia in Japanese (ウィキペディア)

CharleyGarrett Wrote:When they say it like that, they are not incorrectly pronouncing an English word. They are correctly pronouncing a Japanese word that was originally borrowed. I agree wholehearte...
Django General discussion 35 7,120 2008-01-22, 11:11 am
    Thread: using the "hole" primitive for "window"
Post: using the "hole" primitive for "window"

Cheers, Katsuo, nolusu and adrianbarritt. Didn't realise there were so many, but it does make sense. I've just this minute found out that the latest edition of RTKIII is finally available for purchas...
Django Remembering the Kanji 24 19,463 2008-01-21, 10:00 pm
    Thread: using the "hole" primitive for "window"
Post: using the "hole" primitive for "window"

I had just failed the kanji for window (yet again), and, deciding that my story needed serious retooling, or even replacing, I scrolled down the stories and realised that a number of people had made t...
Django Remembering the Kanji 24 19,463 2008-01-21, 11:33 am
    Thread: Post RTK1-What are you guys doing?
Post: Post RTK1-What are you guys doing?

I've found post-RTK1 life a hard adjustment. With a finite number of kanji, and the excellent review system on this website, I found it easy to set daily goals and thereby keep my level of motivation ...
Django General discussion 53 14,699 2008-01-19, 2:03 pm
    Thread: A special kind of Reader
Post: A special kind of Reader

rich_f Wrote:Short of just grabbing a pile of Doraemon manga, does anyone have any suggestions? (Otherwise I'm gonna just grab a pile of Doraemon. XD) I'm looking for something I can read here and the...
Django Learning resources 21 4,210 2008-01-13, 1:48 am
    Thread: Is Japanese More Difficult to Learn Than English?
Post: Is Japanese More Difficult to Learn Than English?

To carry on where Codexus left off, let us suppose the existence of a language, K, that employs not just an almost identical set of Chinese characters as Japanese, but also both syllabaries of kana. L...
Django Off topic 46 9,079 2007-12-08, 11:58 am
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

I understand in principle what I have to do. What I'm not certain is how to change the command line that resolve has provided so that it applies to my deck. If the path is /Users/Django/Documents/anki...
Django Learning resources 999 230,452 2007-11-11, 4:11 pm
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

Thanks, Kieron. Alright, I found a handy app called Tinker Tool that reveals all hidden files in the finder. I've replaced the last deck that I used with the backup, but still Anki won't start. Do I n...
Django Learning resources 999 230,452 2007-11-11, 2:51 pm
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

resolve Wrote:Open a terminal. Type: ls -l ~/.anki/backups Done. But why can't I see my backup folders in the finder?
Django Learning resources 999 230,452 2007-11-10, 6:34 pm
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

agreed. however, i've searched my hard drive for all files and folders containing either the words 'anki' or 'backup' and have found no likely candidates for a backup folder.
Django Learning resources 999 230,452 2007-11-10, 1:15 pm
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

resolve Wrote:django: that indicates that your deck was corrupted. look in ~/.anki/backups for a backup copy of the deck, and copy it over your existing version (backing up your existing version just ...
Django Learning resources 999 230,452 2007-11-10, 11:45 am
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

Let me be the 1056th person to come to this thread for help. I've been using Anki for about a month now, and I've found it to be an excellent study aid. many thanks to resolve for all his time and ef...
Django Learning resources 999 230,452 2007-11-09, 9:09 pm
    Thread: 外人
Post: 外人

kyotokanji Wrote:The situation though is so deeply immersed into society that it just becomes a continuous cylcle of predujice and lies that trickles down to the bottom, comes nack up and then down ag...
Django General discussion 54 9,793 2007-10-13, 3:58 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

CharleyGarrett Wrote:Well, actually, you're not done with RTK1 until all the kanji are in the right most box... Point taken. Frankly I don't think I'll ever be done with RTK--certainly not as long as ...
Django Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,659 2007-10-10, 9:42 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Well, just transferred my last batch of RTK1 Kanji out of the blue box. Feels good to be done, but a little empty because RTK has been my central focus for the last two months. I suppose getting to su...
Django Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,659 2007-10-10, 11:46 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

I've been a bit naughty and not read all the previous posts in this thread. However, I'm just so happy to have entered the final chapter into the untested column i couldn't restrain myself. Will have ...
Django Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,659 2007-10-09, 10:43 pm
    Thread: Japanese TV downloads
Post: Japanese TV downloads

Cheers!
Django General discussion 67 17,280 2007-09-11, 10:47 pm
    Thread: Japanese TV torrent
Post: Japanese TV torrent

cheers. will try downloading again later on.
Django Remembering the Kanji 23 6,243 2007-09-07, 12:43 am
    Thread: Japanese TV torrent
Post: Japanese TV torrent

didn't realise you were still around! yeah, i've just tried downloading it, but my torrent client says "Error: unregistered torrent pass"
Django Remembering the Kanji 23 6,243 2007-09-07, 12:13 am
    Thread: Japanese TV torrent
Post: Japanese TV torrent

synewave, sorry I missed your upload! will be sure to check this space more often for anything people put up. cheers!
Django Remembering the Kanji 23 6,243 2007-09-06, 11:04 pm
    Thread: Japanese TV torrent
Post: Japanese TV torrent

synewave Wrote:I don't know. Are the dramas that you download subbed? Put another way, where can I get un-subbed dramas? If you can't find any vareity torrents, let me know and I'll start uploading s...
Django Remembering the Kanji 23 6,243 2007-09-03, 10:54 pm
    Thread: Japanese TV torrent
Post: Japanese TV torrent

synewave or anyone else, do you know where one can download news shows and variety shows. i'm interested in the news, both to keep up with what's happening in japan, but also to improve my vocabulary....
Django Remembering the Kanji 23 6,243 2007-09-03, 8:43 pm