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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
