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    Thread: Grammar questions
Post: Grammar questions

TsugiAshi Wrote:I'm going through a couple of audio programs for learning Japanese, and one of the phrases that turned up was "Jozu (I'm just going on what appears to be the phonetic spelling) ja arim...
Dustin_Calgary The Japanese language 2 957 2014-07-03, 1:45 am
    Thread: A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar sorted?
Post: A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar sorted?

Most people I know just looked up grammar in it as they came across it, but a few did it cover to cover. I don't think I could do that :p
Dustin_Calgary Learning resources 5 1,017 2014-06-28, 12:43 am
    Thread: How do i suspend cards on Anki IOS?
Post: How do i suspend cards on Anki IOS?

On the computer, open up anki, and hit the "browse" button on the top. Select your desired cards. If you are using an ordered deck, you can click that deck on the list on the left, and it will be in...
Dustin_Calgary Learning resources 3 1,067 2014-06-28, 12:41 am
    Thread: I don't get Core 2k/6k/10k deck
Post: I don't get Core 2k/6k/10k deck

This is why I moved the english from the front to the back, worked much better for the way I like to do my cards. Many people do recommend only testing one thing at a time ( either pronunciation OR w...
Dustin_Calgary Learning resources 11 2,600 2014-06-28, 12:35 am
    Thread: I have a burning question that has been killing me
Post: I have a burning question that has been killing me

For using sentences, most people recommend finding them, and using that material. The core deck is a pre-prepared set of sentences for just that purpose, and the best decks have the kanji, furigana, ...
Dustin_Calgary The Japanese language 4 1,173 2014-06-26, 11:50 pm
    Thread: Japanese core 2k/6k/10k
Post: Japanese core 2k/6k/10k

Use this deck imo: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=11095 Some people worry just about the individual piece of vocab, others want to understand the whole sentence. The benefit of this dec...
Dustin_Calgary General discussion 3 1,672 2014-06-25, 8:16 pm
    Thread: Anime with romaji subtitles
Post: Anime with romaji subtitles

JFE has fairly minimal romaji use in all fairness. It starts the first couple lessons with romaji, that way you can still learn other stuff while also learning the kana. All exercises have no romaji...
Dustin_Calgary Learning resources 63 14,717 2014-06-23, 7:49 pm
    Thread: What is most essential to your studying?
Post: What is most essential to your studying?

Seems it is an online thing now rather than books they are selling these days http://www.coscom.co.jp/ebook/item_2001kanji.html
Dustin_Calgary Learning resources 23 4,344 2014-06-17, 3:07 pm
    Thread: What is most essential to your studying?
Post: What is most essential to your studying?

riogray Wrote:I have a question myself: what is this KO you have been talking about? Kanji odyssey 2001 the 2 books and audio e-book presented 1110 kanji in an approximate order of frequency, with co...
Dustin_Calgary Learning resources 23 4,344 2014-06-17, 3:05 pm
    Thread: For those of you who are doing the Japanese Core 6000 Sentence packs.
Post: For those of you who are doing the Japanese Core 6...

The Deck I use has 2 card types. Recognition, you see the word in the sentence, try to read it. Back reveals the english meaning as well as the phonetics for the sentence, and has the audio for it. ...
Dustin_Calgary General discussion 27 5,475 2014-06-14, 12:41 am
    Thread: what comes after hiragana/katakana?
Post: what comes after hiragana/katakana?

Genki is great. So is JFE and a few others. I went with JFE primarily for the significant cost difference, and partially to get away from the "classroom" oriented lessons. Here is a good comparison...
Dustin_Calgary The Japanese language 5 1,682 2014-06-13, 6:35 pm
    Thread: I have a question about how to review cards.
Post: I have a question about how to review cards.

Are you talking about studying on this site? This site uses a Spaced Repetition System ( SRS ) This automatically schedules the next time you will see a flashcard, so you can't review them until tha...
Dustin_Calgary Remembering the Kanji 3 955 2014-06-12, 7:08 pm
    Thread: For those of you who are doing the Japanese Core 6000 Sentence packs.
Post: For those of you who are doing the Japanese Core 6...

Vempele Wrote:Couldn't you just make the relevant card templates for a normal core deck? They have all the necessary data in the same note. That would be my suggestion.
Dustin_Calgary General discussion 27 5,475 2014-06-12, 7:03 pm
    Thread: For those of you who are doing the Japanese Core 6000 Sentence packs.
Post: For those of you who are doing the Japanese Core 6...

The problem is, unfortunately the sentences and the vocab are not made from the same notes, so this will not work.
Dustin_Calgary General discussion 27 5,475 2014-06-12, 4:04 pm
    Thread: What does this t shirt mean?
Post: What does this t shirt mean?

Considering this: http://store.nike.com/us/en_us/pd/warrio...id-1554427 Identified as a warrior spirit shirt.... :p
Dustin_Calgary General discussion 6 1,255 2014-06-10, 3:49 pm
    Thread: For those of you who are doing the Japanese Core 6000 Sentence packs.
Post: For those of you who are doing the Japanese Core 6...

learningkanji Wrote:Is there a quick way to change the schedule so that the sentence card follows the lone word card or would that require a lot of tedious moving? I don't see any quick way to do it, ...
Dustin_Calgary General discussion 27 5,475 2014-06-10, 1:24 pm
    Thread: For those of you who are doing the Japanese Core 6000 Sentence packs.
Post: For those of you who are doing the Japanese Core 6...

Vempele Wrote:You could move them into separate decks. That's true too, and if the sentences are in the same order as the vocab, that might work well. No idea if that's the case though.
Dustin_Calgary General discussion 27 5,475 2014-06-10, 4:47 am
    Thread: For those of you who are doing the Japanese Core 6000 Sentence packs.
Post: For those of you who are doing the Japanese Core 6...

Ah, I looked at the deck, it's the scheduling info. All the sentences are scheduled before the all the words are scheduled apparently. It looks like other than manually re-sorting them, or putting a...
Dustin_Calgary General discussion 27 5,475 2014-06-10, 4:12 am
    Thread: I'm somewhere over 3000 words in core2k/6k
Post: I'm somewhere over 3000 words in core2k/6k

Northern_Lord Wrote:Why don't you just create a "notes" field that appears next to the word and write i.e. "not [word that you are likely to mix it up with]". I found myself saying しばしば for しょっちゅう and...
Dustin_Calgary General discussion 12 2,797 2014-06-05, 5:55 pm
    Thread: How to "kanji in Context" (w/ srs) ?
Post: How to "kanji in Context" (w/ srs) ?

Which deck do you have? I just downloaded the one with ~7,825 notes and checked it quickly. On my quick look, I have no idea what order they are in, but you can select the "c01" "c02" etc. tags etc....
Dustin_Calgary Learning resources 11 4,192 2014-06-05, 4:11 pm
    Thread: Learning Vocabulary in Genki 1 with Kanji
Post: Learning Vocabulary in Genki 1 with Kanji

May as well try to learn it with the kanji I actually just flipped ahead to see how rtk built a kanji, that way I had a better idea of how it was put together, and a better chance of remembering, but...
Dustin_Calgary The Japanese language 5 1,367 2014-05-31, 2:01 am
    Thread: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k)
Post: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k...

learningkanji Wrote:I actually got this a while ago but held off on using it until I read a bit of Yotsubato. I guess I should just finish the whole thing and then Yotsubato will be easier to understa...
Dustin_Calgary The Japanese language 79 14,733 2014-05-30, 6:18 pm
    Thread: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k)
Post: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k...

Sauzer Wrote:Dustin_Calgary Wrote:http://www.livingjapanese.com/p/reading-pack.html haha wow that's a nice racket that guy's trying to pull off. Charge 8 bucks for an anki deck I would have made anyw...
Dustin_Calgary The Japanese language 79 14,733 2014-05-30, 9:19 am
    Thread: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k)
Post: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k...

learningkanji Wrote:I tried Yotsubato but there's too much colloquial speech there that I don't know so I put that on hold. Have you tried the yotsubato reading pack? I've heard great things about it...
Dustin_Calgary The Japanese language 79 14,733 2014-05-30, 4:10 am
    Thread: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k)
Post: Intermediate Mass Vocabulary Building (aka 10k-40k...

Zarxrax Wrote:It might be beneficial to target your learning towards specialized topics. Like if there is a certain genre of books you like to read, try learning words specifically from those kind of ...
Dustin_Calgary The Japanese language 79 14,733 2014-05-29, 9:56 am
    Thread: How long did/are you study Japanese a day?
Post: How long did/are you study Japanese a day?

Yeah, sometimes I spend 45 mins polishing off some reviews, and call it a day. Other times I spend 3-4 hours of actual study time ( after I remove all the wasted time spent on forums, chatting, fbing...
Dustin_Calgary General discussion 52 13,144 2014-05-29, 9:50 am
    Thread: Core 10k - optimized i+1 version
Post: Core 10k - optimized i+1 version

qwertyytrewq Wrote:Based on my experiences, deleting one (EG production) also deletes the other at the same time. I dunno why. So I simply disable the production deck. I think deleting the individual ...
Dustin_Calgary Learning resources 348 90,909 2014-05-28, 2:03 pm
    Thread: What do people on this forum think of "Japanese For Busy People"?
Post: What do people on this forum think of "Japanese Fo...

poblequadrat Wrote:Anyway, I can't speak for Japanese for Busy People but I like Japanese for Everyone. I recommend that one - and yes, some of the material is a bit dated but that shouldn't prevent y...
Dustin_Calgary The Japanese language 20 4,741 2014-05-28, 3:39 am
    Thread: question regarding iknow vocab retention
Post: question regarding iknow vocab retention

cophnia61 Wrote:Can I ask what do you find more difficult to stick? Reading or meaning of the vocab? (Sorry for the lame question but I'm about to start core so every info is useful for me :D ) Person...
Dustin_Calgary Learning resources 12 2,571 2014-05-26, 3:29 pm
    Thread: question regarding iknow vocab retention
Post: question regarding iknow vocab retention

If the reason you are doing iknow is to save time from entering the items into anki, well, there are the pre-made decks where it's already entered in, and it's free :p The reason I use iknow is that ...
Dustin_Calgary Learning resources 12 2,571 2014-05-25, 11:24 pm