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    Thread: What age are you?
Post: What age are you?

31 2 and a half years (2 years using this site but lots of breaks - is it me or does life keep getting in the way of study?) 2042 (but loads of failed kanji in the last couple of hundred, so not sure ...
fiminor Off topic 357 73,694 2008-03-03, 6:21 pm
    Thread: Reported story! Why?
Post: Reported story! Why?

Just found the button that lets you see which of your stories has been reported and had a complete heart-attack as I saw it ran to 15 pages! Then I realised it was actually only the first three sto...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 25 5,245 2008-02-29, 6:14 pm
    Thread: Who is your "Person" (Lesson 27)?
Post: Who is your "Person" (Lesson 27)?

Alan Rickman. I didn't pick someone I actually knew because I didn't especially want all the wierd associations that might result from that! The advantage of chosing an actor who plays a such a vari...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 66 19,529 2007-11-16, 11:02 am
    Thread: Is RTK learning a male thing?
Post: Is RTK learning a male thing?

I guess a lot of people would choose not to reveal much in the way of personal information on an internet forum in any case. I've certainly been fairly careful in the past to make my posts gender neu...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 23 3,643 2007-09-04, 7:07 am
    Thread: 国語 game shows
Post: 国語 game shows

I don't know - 5 is still considerably better than the 1 or 2 Jimmyseal says most contestants managed! I think 木べん might be harder than other primitives such as person or thread, where a lot more kan...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 15 3,383 2007-08-08, 6:40 am
    Thread: Synesthesia
Post: Synesthesia

johnzep Wrote:Are hiragana and katakana colored? That's turned out to be a really interesting concept to think about! For me, anyway... Considering your question has made me realise that the colour ...
fiminor Off topic 11 3,717 2007-07-19, 2:33 pm
    Thread: Synesthesia
Post: Synesthesia

I've associated letters and numbers with particular colours all my life and just assumed that was normal until I saw a programme on synesthesia a few months ago. I certainly don't have any kind of pr...
fiminor Off topic 11 3,717 2007-07-18, 6:57 am
    Thread: Heisig Dreams?
Post: Heisig Dreams?

If that's the case, it's probably just as well! I do occasionally wonder what the long-term psychological effect of having over 2000 somewhat surreal stories/images stored in my brain might be.... S...
fiminor Off topic 13 3,756 2007-07-05, 11:36 am
    Thread: Heisig Dreams?
Post: Heisig Dreams?

You know when you're really tired and trying to sleep but your brain is still mulling over problems and they begin to make less and less sense? I've definitely found the Heisig approach creeping into...
fiminor Off topic 13 3,756 2007-07-05, 7:15 am
    Thread: Help...less than 300 to go but procrastination kicking in big time
Post: Help...less than 300 to go but procrastination kic...

Hey, thanks for the "courtesy check"! Really not trying to make excuses here, but if I had been looking for them, this month has really thrown them in my path! Got the nice shiny new laptop followin...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 56 9,401 2007-07-01, 6:05 pm
    Thread: Help...less than 300 to go but procrastination kicking in big time
Post: Help...less than 300 to go but procrastination kic...

akrodha Wrote:I'm done! Wheeee! Fiminor, join me up here... the weather is great! Doing my best! Congratulations akrodha, you've done really well! I have actually finished making stories up to the s...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 56 9,401 2007-06-22, 6:33 am
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

Chadokoro_K Wrote:I'm very happy to say that I've finally "finished" RTK I. Now it is only a matter of putting in the time to review to get all of the kanji in box 4 and beyond! Hey congratulations! ...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,661 2007-06-15, 6:32 am
    Thread: Your favourite songs
Post: Your favourite songs

wrightak Wrote:What was the name of the single? Do you like it? Not trying to claim it's the greatest rock music ever written, but live they were quite good! The single I bought is called "color". N...
fiminor Learning resources 30 8,333 2007-06-13, 6:24 pm
    Thread: Help...less than 300 to go but procrastination kicking in big time
Post: Help...less than 300 to go but procrastination kic...

Disgruntled is a good word for this kind of situation! Was borderline annoyed yesterday (on the angry side of borderline, rather than the mild irritation side), but have moved on to disgruntled today...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 56 9,401 2007-06-13, 6:18 pm
    Thread: Help...less than 300 to go but procrastination kicking in big time
Post: Help...less than 300 to go but procrastination kic...

akrodha Wrote:and fiminor, are you moving forward? Your profile has been at 1977 kanji for quite a while. Chadokoro_K Wrote:What do you say, fiminor? Can you join us in this? Hey guys! Wasn't meaning...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 56 9,401 2007-06-13, 8:01 am
    Thread: Why do people think the Kana are hard?
Post: Why do people think the Kana are hard?

My Kocho sensei, whose desk I sat opposite for a year while he watched me studying kanji in any free time I had, feeling free to comment frequently on my studies, presented me with a beautiful framed ...
fiminor The Japanese language 92 28,252 2007-06-13, 6:48 am
    Thread: Your favourite songs
Post: Your favourite songs

Anyone else come across a band called "Fain Days"? I seemed to run into them every time I went to Osaka and they came across as a little more interesting than the average Japanese rock band. Keep me...
fiminor Learning resources 30 8,333 2007-06-09, 7:09 pm
    Thread: Help...less than 300 to go but procrastination kicking in big time
Post: Help...less than 300 to go but procrastination kic...

Yeah, this working lark really gets in the way of studying kanji!
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 56 9,401 2007-06-08, 6:43 am
    Thread: Help...less than 300 to go but procrastination kicking in big time
Post: Help...less than 300 to go but procrastination kic...

Chadokoro_K Wrote:fiminor, how are your reviews going? Did you bite the bullet and get all of them done in two days? Are you ready to start learning 5 new kanji a day plus stay on top of reviews? Er, ...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 56 9,401 2007-06-07, 8:13 am
    Thread: Help...less than 300 to go but procrastination kicking in big time
Post: Help...less than 300 to go but procrastination kic...

Chadokoro_K, adrodha, I am totally with you guys. Got stuck around the 1800 mark about 6 months ago and it seemed to take forever to clear the ongoing cycle of expired and failed kanji after that bre...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 56 9,401 2007-06-05, 7:49 am
    Thread: Working in Japan.
Post: Working in Japan.

I worked as an ALT in a Junior High School last year, and while it's true that a couple of teachers basically used me as a human tape recorder, most of them wanted me to play a much more active role. ...
fiminor Learning resources 19 4,043 2007-05-11, 10:56 am
    Thread: Most kanji learnt in a day?
Post: Most kanji learnt in a day?

I've done around 100 on at least one occasion - just ploughed through a couple of chapters, reviewed them once and then sat back and realised quite how much I'd achieved! I tend to prefer to learn a ...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 12 2,632 2007-05-11, 10:34 am
    Thread: Using Japanese in employment (outside Japan)
Post: Using Japanese in employment (outside Japan)

Dingomick's advice is spot-on. A friend of mine worked as a programmer for a games company which got taken over by a Japanese company. He suddenly found himself regularly in contact with Japanese co...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 11 2,360 2007-04-26, 12:57 pm
    Thread: Using Japanese in employment (outside Japan)
Post: Using Japanese in employment (outside Japan)

Experience of using Japanese in the workplace? What, other than reviewing kanji during my lunch hour? :P I'm interested in training as a language teacher eventually and was surprised by the number ...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 11 2,360 2007-04-25, 7:46 am
    Thread: Why do you like Japanese?
Post: Why do you like Japanese?

My primary reason is having lived in Japan and wanting to go back again at some point. Being able to participate more fully in daily life, to have meaningful conversations with non-English speaking c...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 3 2,078 2007-04-23, 7:38 am
    Thread: What you reading?
Post: What you reading?

Wasn't intending this to be a recommendation specifically to read Harry Potter in Japanese! Just for any translation of a book you like. A lot of my students were into Agatha Christie for some reaso...
fiminor General discussion 68 17,663 2007-04-17, 7:29 am
    Thread: What you reading?
Post: What you reading?

People may or may not think this is a crap idea, but something I've tried when learning other languages is reading a translation of a book you already know (but don't mind reading again!). I apprecia...
fiminor General discussion 68 17,663 2007-04-14, 10:34 am
    Thread: What you reading?
Post: What you reading?

Does anyone have suggestions on getting hold of Japanese-language manga in the UK? I'm interested in Fruits Basket, but would prefer to pay less than the delivery costs on Amazon.co.jp if there is an...
fiminor General discussion 68 17,663 2007-04-09, 8:47 am
    Thread: 日本人 Reactions to RTK?
Post: 日本人 Reactions to RTK?

I generally got positive reactions from the teachers in the school where I worked last year. They liked the idea of learning kanji that way, and were impressed with how quickly I was learning. One o...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 11 2,837 2007-03-22, 8:20 am
    Thread: Great Kanji words
Post: Great Kanji words

Wakela Wrote:Both Japan and the West named Saturday basically the same thing...evidence of ancient astronauts? Now that I think of it, this probably reflects Chinese astronomy, and Japan got the name...
fiminor Remembering the Kanji 55 15,469 2007-03-21, 7:55 am