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    Thread: Realistic Goals?
Post: Realistic Goals?

Kavian Wrote:Any recommendations on movies/manga/readers that you especially enjoyed or were of the perfect difficulty level for you at that stage? I'll take your advice for sure. I was reading a lot ...
edkrak The Japanese language 10 3,182 2013-11-18, 5:30 pm
    Thread: Realistic Goals?
Post: Realistic Goals?

I don't think it's a good idea to postpone native materials that much. I've started reading Graded Readers & shounen manga at around 1000-1500 words in Core. NHK News & simple (action/horror/p...
edkrak The Japanese language 10 3,182 2013-11-18, 10:00 am
    Thread: Japanese film sites/forums
Post: Japanese film sites/forums

Yes umetani, you got it right. Maybe I wasn't precise enough. I'm searching for sites in Japanese. I know a bit about Japanese cinema and I'm familiar with 90% of persons mentioned by buonaparte. I wa...
edkrak General discussion 8 4,849 2013-04-30, 7:47 am
    Thread: Japanese film sites/forums
Post: Japanese film sites/forums

I would like to start reading something interesting about Japanese cinema. Any good sites/forums/blogs for that? I'm mainly interested in cult (70s Toei & Nikkatsu films, H. Satou, Miike, Sono, et...
edkrak General discussion 8 4,849 2013-04-30, 4:56 am
    Thread: Japanese websites with erotic stories, similar to literotica.com
Post: Japanese websites with erotic stories, similar to ...

Dan Oniroku (団 鬼六) is considered one of the best Japanese erotic writers. You can find a lot of books written by him.
edkrak Learning resources 4 4,011 2013-04-16, 4:38 am
    Thread: writing own subtitles
Post: writing own subtitles

Making timings for subs is very easy if you use a good subbing program. VisualSubSync is great. I've also heard good things about Aegisub, but haven't used it myself.
edkrak General discussion 7 1,411 2013-03-22, 11:50 am
    Thread: Have I got the best decks for Core 2k/Core 6k? (29,954 cards)
Post: Have I got the best decks for Core 2k/Core 6k? (29...

Warp2243 Wrote:uisukii Wrote:I've no idea where 10,000 is coming from, but unless there are double entries or something, it doesn't really sounds like you've got the core deck. The last 4,000 sentence...
edkrak Learning resources 15 6,356 2013-03-15, 2:58 pm
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

I've just finished reading my first genuine native Japanese material: 名探偵コナン vol.1. I was only reading textbooks/Japanese Graded Readers/Core sentences before. It wasn't as hard as I thought. Thanks ...
edkrak General discussion 1,389 294,674 2013-02-08, 8:19 am
    Thread: Japanese Movies -- Community Reviews.
Post: Japanese Movies -- Community Reviews.

TheVinster Wrote:Surprisingly not that terrible, but I'm still confused as to why every Japanese movie feels the need to be over 2 hours. Try watching pinku eiga, most are 60-70 minutes long. Some of ...
edkrak Learning resources 54 12,204 2013-01-31, 2:05 pm
    Thread: Thinking about no longer using RTK by Heisig.
Post: Thinking about no longer using RTK by Heisig.

I love all kinds of offensive stories and I find them most memorable and helpful in learning kanji. It would be really unfortunate if this site started to censor them. If some people can't handle it I...
edkrak Remembering the Kanji 110 21,141 2013-01-27, 1:57 pm
    Thread: Too much diversity?
Post: Too much diversity?

Yeah, also don't forget that many people using RtK are not native English speakers. Learning new kanjis in your L3 using unknown words from your L2 is not really making it easier.
edkrak Remembering the Kanji 10 2,273 2013-01-23, 3:27 pm
    Thread: Online Japanese Novels
Post: Online Japanese Novels

Stian Wrote:I find a PDF in plain English and a bunch of textdocuments with loads of symbols... Open them with a program more advanced than Notepad. Word or something...
edkrak Learning resources 33 17,198 2013-01-14, 3:24 pm
    Thread: Is Japanese culture "dying"?
Post: Is Japanese culture "dying"?

Tsuchinoko Wrote:I had taken up the study of Japanese because of my interest in Japanese culture... Even if Japan would vanish completely tomorrow, there still so much material to watch, listen and re...
edkrak General discussion 87 16,917 2013-01-11, 6:33 am
    Thread: Half way!
Post: Half way!

(Almost) Half way! I was planning to reach that point by the end of December, but these super long lessons were really a pain in the ass. Glad that most of them are behind me. 45 days 1000 kanji 87% ...
edkrak Remembering the Kanji 616 180,497 2013-01-03, 2:10 pm
    Thread: Japanese Radio (internet)
Post: Japanese Radio (internet)

At what hours are you listening to radio? If you're in Europe and listening in the evenings after work/school then it's the middle of the night in Japan, so most stations don't have a lot of news or t...
edkrak General discussion 5 2,182 2012-12-29, 3:13 am
    Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!
Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!

This little burn out is the effect of trying to speed up things by doing 70-80 kanjis a day for 2 days straight. But I realized it's counterproductive and optimal pace for me is something around 30 ne...
edkrak Remembering the Kanji 526 167,173 2012-12-08, 2:48 pm
    Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!
Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!!

19 days 508 kanji 91% correct answers in Anki I feel a bit burned out right now, but I'm not giving up.
edkrak Remembering the Kanji 526 167,173 2012-12-08, 1:26 pm