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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here EratiK: I'd never heard of that title until now. I wasn't even aware that the SNES had VNs. Are you enjoying the story so far? How's the reading difficulty? My problem is that I know exactly which VN... |
TurtleBear | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,669 | 2015-09-24, 12:34 pm | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here It looks as though this thread has died, so I'll be the one to resurrect it. I like nothing better than hearing about others' achievements. (: A little over a week ago, I finished reading my first un... |
TurtleBear | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,669 | 2015-09-23, 3:24 pm | ||
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Thread: Why did you choose that Kanji for your avatar? Post: Why did you choose that Kanji for your avatar? Because to learn kanji, one must give each character the proper deliberation. |
TurtleBear | Remembering the Kanji | 21 | 5,373 | 2015-07-26, 2:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Almost beginning with learning Post: Almost beginning with learning Great job, Kruzer! I only wish I had done something so impressive at thirteen. Keep studying, and by the time you're old like the rest of us, you'll be reading and speaking like a native. |
TurtleBear | Remembering the Kanji | 63 | 9,414 | 2015-07-26, 11:21 am | ||
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Thread: Almost beginning with learning Post: Almost beginning with learning Kruzer, I finished RTK1 in less than two months while studying full time. You don't have to listen to anyone telling you it's not possible or you'll burn out. I've been studying Japanese every day for... |
TurtleBear | Remembering the Kanji | 63 | 9,414 | 2015-06-26, 3:04 pm | ||
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Thread: Universities using Nakama Post: Universities using Nakama I don't know if this helps since it isn't a university, but I took two years of Japanese at San Antonio College (in Texas), and my class used Nakama. My professor used to work at the University of Tex... |
TurtleBear | Learning resources | 12 | 1,645 | 2015-06-19, 6:01 pm | ||
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Thread: Most effective kanji deck Post: Most effective kanji deck Based on my experience, studying from kanji to keyword has worked very well. Back when I was going through RTK1, I would study 550 kanji from the index each day. This might sound time consuming, but i... |
TurtleBear | Remembering the Kanji | 6 | 1,340 | 2015-06-16, 2:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Future Self to Past Self: To 10k or not to 10k? Post: Future Self to Past Self: To 10k or not to 10k? Most of the Core dissenters are overlooking a few things. Firstly, that everyone's sole purpose for learning Japanese is to watch anime or read manga. Even if the words are derived from newspapers, go... |
TurtleBear | General discussion | 38 | 6,412 | 2015-06-10, 11:52 pm | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here EratiK: That sounds interesting. I'd like to go back and re-watch some of my favorite anime with J-subs eventually, but it seems hard to find them. Maybe I just don't have the right resources. I'm as... |
TurtleBear | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,669 | 2015-06-04, 4:02 pm | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Great job, EratiK. 105 episodes sounds like a lot of work. If you don't mind my asking, what kind of anime did you watch? I have two rather big milestone achievements as of today. Last night, I finis... |
TurtleBear | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,669 | 2015-06-03, 4:11 pm | ||
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Thread: What I thought about kanji today.... Post: What I thought about kanji today.... John555, if sounds to me like you're relying on the furigana provided in your workbook and haven't yet begun to see the kanji in their "complete" forms. When I finished RTK, I immediately tried to rea... |
TurtleBear | The Japanese language | 44 | 6,619 | 2015-05-09, 3:38 am | ||
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Thread: My thoughts after 9 years of on/off study with no real progress Post: My thoughts after 9 years of on/off study with no ... I only read the opening post of this read, so I'm replying exclusively to that. vgambit Wrote:1. Fun learning material 2. Lasting motivation 3. A strong work ethic 1. For many, there will be no su... |
TurtleBear | Off topic | 119 | 19,236 | 2015-04-23, 1:15 pm | ||
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Thread: Should I stop reviewing my N5 and N4 kanji in RTK? Post: Should I stop reviewing my N5 and N4 kanji in RTK? My advice would be to either fully dedicate yourself to the Heisig method or don't. It sounds to me like you took a shortcut (RTK lite), which benefited you in the short run but not in the long run. I... |
TurtleBear | Remembering the Kanji | 18 | 3,178 | 2015-04-19, 3:01 am | ||
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Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here Good job, gaiaslastlaugh! I went to Japan two years ago for a study abroad class and did a lot of translating for my classmates. Granted, I was a beginner at the time, but I can understand, at least s... |
TurtleBear | General discussion | 1,389 | 294,669 | 2015-04-13, 12:48 pm | ||
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Thread: Need help understanding RTK2 Post: Need help understanding RTK2 Personally, I did. It can be difficult to remember the reading of the kanji not containing the signal primitive in question, but memorizing it will pay off when you encounter the kanji again in its ow... |
TurtleBear | Remembering the Kanji | 19 | 4,911 | 2015-02-06, 6:30 pm | ||
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Thread: How long does core2/6/10k take to finish? Post: How long does core2/6/10k take to finish? I just finished RTK 2, and I plan on moving onto Core 6k. Has anyone else done the same or something similar? Mostly, I want to know how much crossover there is between the vocabulary learned in RTK 2... |
TurtleBear | General discussion | 36 | 11,415 | 2015-01-28, 11:51 am | ||
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Thread: Why does Heisig call this "useless information"? Post: Why does Heisig call this "useless information"? The best way to learn to produce compounds is through continual use and writing, which is not what john555 is talking about. But either way, if I think of a word learned in volume two, I can usually... |
TurtleBear | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 5,027 | 2015-01-23, 5:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Why does Heisig call this "useless information"? Post: Why does Heisig call this "useless information"? Remembering every kanji that shares an identical onyomi does seem like useless information to me. It seems as pointless to me as learning how to write every jouyou kanji that has "糸" as a radical in o... |
TurtleBear | Remembering the Kanji | 15 | 5,027 | 2015-01-23, 5:15 pm | ||
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Thread: I study Nihongo because... Post: I study Nihongo because... I want to read some eroi eroge. |
TurtleBear | Off topic | 358 | 111,169 | 2015-01-08, 5:52 pm | ||
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Thread: what to do? Post: what to do? cophnia61 Wrote:Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart... Thank to this community I feel not alone, those days I'm a little discouraged because of other things and maybe this is reflecting in... |
TurtleBear | Off topic | 41 | 10,283 | 2014-12-20, 3:04 pm | ||
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Thread: what to do? Post: what to do? Hey Cophnia, Everyone else has given you good advice, so instead of that, I wanted to say I also deal with depression and find myself frustrated with studying at times. I finished RTK a month or so a... |
TurtleBear | Off topic | 41 | 10,283 | 2014-12-20, 1:55 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... やった！終わった！これからも頑張るぞう！！！ |
TurtleBear | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,755 | 2014-11-17, 3:09 pm | ||
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Thread: Just got Remembering The Kanji #1, and hungry to start Post: Just got Remembering The Kanji #1, and hungry to s... Honestly, I would recommend learning grammar before you start trying to read kanji. I took two years of Japanese in college, and syntax, conjugation, etc. is something you'll need a lot of practice wi... |
TurtleBear | Remembering the Kanji | 6 | 1,980 | 2014-11-11, 9:53 pm | ||
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Thread: 1000th motivation wall. Post: 1000th motivation wall. You should try studying from kanji to keyword. That's been the most helpful for me concerning similar keywords. When you see "没" or "溺", you'll know that both have to do with the word "drown". If you ... |
TurtleBear | Remembering the Kanji | 16 | 3,782 | 2014-11-10, 3:31 pm | ||
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Thread: Need Advice: Cannot Remember Stories Post: Need Advice: Cannot Remember Stories First of all, Heisig’s method isn’t the only way of learning kanji. Many people learn by rote memorization or immersion. If you feel you’ve tried everything, and RTK doesn’t work for you, give somethi... |
TurtleBear | Remembering the Kanji | 6 | 1,889 | 2014-11-10, 1:10 pm | ||
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Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done! I've made it to 1695 in the sixth edition! If everything goes according to schedule, I'll be at 1900 by the end of this week. Then I'll finish the remaining 300 next week. |
TurtleBear | Remembering the Kanji | 462 | 138,226 | 2014-11-05, 11:51 am | ||
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Thread: 6th Edition Frame Number Converter (closed) Post: 6th Edition Frame Number Converter (closed) I've noticed that most of the flashcards include the keywords from both the sixth edition and the previous ones. However, there are two I've come across that don't. 曖 is "unclear" in the sixth editi... |
TurtleBear | Remembering the Kanji | 27 | 22,330 | 2014-11-03, 1:29 pm | ||
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Thread: Did anyone take a break at the 1000 mark? Post: Did anyone take a break at the 1000 mark? Honestly, 1000 didn't feel like much of a landmark to me. Since I'm using the sixth edition, that wasn't the halfway point, anyway. Still, with how subdued my reactions have been thus far, I don't thi... |
TurtleBear | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 4,379 | 2014-10-30, 1:53 pm | ||