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    Thread: RTH (Traditonal) more popular than RSH (Simplified) ?
Post: RTH (Traditonal) more popular than RSH (Simplified...

Going traditional wouldn't hurt, really. I'd advocate it. You'll still be able to read simplified with guesses. Not that easy when you go simplified; but considering RTK's finished I guess either way ...
intermu Chinese and Hanzi 23 5,678 2011-02-25, 5:31 am
    Thread: Japanese Fark.com?
Post: Japanese Fark.com?

If you are into 2ch's VIP: http://blog.livedoor.jp/insidears/ lots of ACG related things though.
intermu The Japanese language 6 1,469 2011-02-24, 12:15 pm
    Thread: RTH (Traditonal) more popular than RSH (Simplified) ?
Post: RTH (Traditonal) more popular than RSH (Simplified...

it's easier to go trad -> simpl than simpl -> trad, although both need some time to adapt. though if you did RtK before it's probably a safer bet to go traditional. You can kind of guess the si...
intermu Chinese and Hanzi 23 5,678 2011-02-24, 12:10 pm
    Thread: Links to good media for learning Mandarin
Post: Links to good media for learning Mandarin

I'll just be sharing this for people interested in non-mainstream music http://bitetone.com/ Hongkong-based site on Chinese/HK/Taiwanese bands.
intermu Chinese and Hanzi 48 25,412 2011-02-23, 1:06 pm
    Thread: I might stop SRSing...
Post: I might stop SRSing...

That's much later in the future. I guess everyone's different. It took me around 5 to 6 full years to get my English as much as native level. In a perspective that's an awfully long time. Then again I...
intermu General discussion 75 12,592 2011-02-23, 1:01 pm
    Thread: I might stop SRSing...
Post: I might stop SRSing...

I haven't really read rest of thread, but basically I got fed up with SRS a month or two after I finished RTK. The total period I SRSed was probably about 6 months or so in total. I am now totally th...
intermu General discussion 75 12,592 2011-02-23, 12:49 pm
    Thread: Studing Japanese and Chinese simultaniously?
Post: Studing Japanese and Chinese simultaniously?

aphasiac Wrote:Sorry if this is in the wrong section, but.. I have an opportunity to move to Taiwan in August, and I'm fairly certain I'm going to take it. Obviously I need to start studying mandarin...
intermu Chinese and Hanzi 25 10,678 2011-02-12, 1:18 pm
    Thread: Trad Chinese Wordtank V80, BESTA S703 or other electronic dictionaries
Post: Trad Chinese Wordtank V80, BESTA S703 or other ele...

my besta does, then again, i'm buying one here in taiwan. >_> i now use my android dictionary more than my e dict though, so yeah..
intermu Chinese and Hanzi 1 688 2011-02-12, 1:09 pm
    Thread: what's the thing with 劃 vs 划
Post: what's the thing with 劃 vs 划

I thought 板 and 闆 have different meanings. I didn't know they were interchangeable before. Thanks. 什麼 甚麼 is interchangeable for some reason, so is 了解 and 僚解. So far I have not encountered a lot, but ...
intermu Chinese and Hanzi 5 1,057 2011-01-22, 1:39 pm
    Thread: Links to good media for learning Mandarin
Post: Links to good media for learning Mandarin

Anyone got any good recommendations for more good Mandarin music? Thanks to the OP, I never thought punk sounds good. Maybe post-rockish stuff or alternative stuff in Mandarin? Preferably they have l...
intermu Chinese and Hanzi 48 25,412 2010-09-28, 2:42 am
    Thread: ラブプラス
Post: ラブプラス

first half of the game is pretty straight forward when you're in a relationship and trying to do stuff to get more going that's when things start becoming a bit confusing. that's when i scrapped it.
intermu Learning resources 8 1,323 2010-06-03, 10:47 pm
    Thread: Transition from Japanese to Chinese
Post: Transition from Japanese to Chinese

So I'll be going to Taiwan to get my bachelor's this September, and currently I'm in gear learning Japanese. I've got the real real basic Chinese parts down, although my pronunciations and tones are b...
intermu Chinese and Hanzi 3 2,751 2010-06-03, 5:01 am
    Thread: Japanese music lyrics fetcher
Post: Japanese music lyrics fetcher

Just giving a heads up, if no one knows of this yet. So far, I got my lyrics by manually searching for them and putting them in my foobar to display. I just stumbled upon this program called minilyric...
intermu Learning resources 2 2,029 2010-05-18, 4:21 am
    Thread: Best way to practice Kanji without an SRS?
Post: Best way to practice Kanji without an SRS?

I just went through the exact same phase actually. At least, the VERY TIRED with SRSin part. Frustrated with the keywords of RtK since that failed me a lot of times that it actually makes me not open...
intermu General discussion 24 5,692 2010-04-14, 5:00 pm
    Thread: My study method (Study pack included)
Post: My study method (Study pack included)

Oh. Wow. Just what I'm looking for, learning from light novels. I've a question on how to actually convert .txt to .html (sorry if it's been discussed before, please point me to the right post then...
intermu Learning resources 138 47,080 2010-04-04, 10:19 pm
    Thread: Japanese Bands
Post: Japanese Bands

Stuff I listen to that has been mentioned in this thread: Supercar CONDOR44 (Their last album is SO, SO GOOD) Fox loco phantom (that's from your earlier post though) Hartfield Mono Ogre You leprechaun...
intermu General discussion 23 9,883 2010-04-04, 10:08 pm
    Thread: Travelling to India & Asia, any tips?
Post: Travelling to India & Asia, any tips?

Bring cash. Lots of it.
intermu Off topic 16 3,212 2010-02-24, 9:14 pm
    Thread: another output thread... 助けて!!!
Post: another output thread... 助けて!!!

Just dropping in to say that to actually be able to write things in Japanese in just 10 months, albeit still a bit glittered with mistakes, is amazing. I remember during my Junior High school, where ...
intermu General discussion 39 7,088 2010-02-24, 2:39 am
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

Tobberoth Wrote:進んだ is the preteritum form of 進む. Look that up and you'll get it. Many thanks! I now owe you one :)
intermu The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,539 2010-01-16, 4:30 pm
    Thread: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread
Post: The "What's this word/phrase?" thread

I've got a question. It's a simple one, but I'm pretty lost. 船は氷を砕いて、冬の海を進んだ。 Yeah, this is from the JRTK deck. I understand the first part, but not so much the second part. WWWJDIC gives 進んで as: ...
intermu The Japanese language 8,332 1,453,539 2010-01-16, 4:15 pm
    Thread: KO 2001 Kanji/Word progression
Post: KO 2001 Kanji/Word progression

Ah, thanks a lot! I didn't know about the generate cards option. That certainly explains why the new parts didn't show up. Many, many thanks! I can't really sort it in order though, so for a deck the...
intermu Learning resources 146 43,061 2010-01-10, 2:07 am
    Thread: KO 2001 Kanji/Word progression
Post: KO 2001 Kanji/Word progression

chameleoncoder Wrote:intermu Wrote:Thanks, downloading now. Right now though, my deck looks like this: http://i45.tinypic.com/jkycdz.jpg so there's like no audio cards for the deck. Any tips? Oh it l...
intermu Learning resources 146 43,061 2010-01-08, 4:28 pm
    Thread: KO 2001 Kanji/Word progression
Post: KO 2001 Kanji/Word progression

Reviewed Wrote:intermu Wrote:I couldn't get the audio in the deck, although I got it all sorted out. Any pointers on what's wrong? Do you have the audio files saved somewhere? If so, make sure they're...
intermu Learning resources 146 43,061 2010-01-08, 1:31 pm
    Thread: KO 2001 Kanji/Word progression
Post: KO 2001 Kanji/Word progression

I couldn't get the audio in the deck, although I got it all sorted out. Any pointers on what's wrong?
intermu Learning resources 146 43,061 2010-01-08, 3:14 am
    Thread: The way things used to be, a condensed history of AJATT
Post: The way things used to be, a condensed history of ...

ta12121 Wrote:Yea, i wonder what he did during those 18 months. I've been doing the AJATT method for close to 5 months. and 3 months for kanji. He said he only did around 50 new sentences daily but he...
intermu Off topic 97 24,508 2010-01-08, 3:06 am
    Thread: After RtK1
Post: After RtK1

Asking another question here again to avoid thread redundancy. I'm fresh out of RtK, and 300 cards in KO. Now I'm wondering what did people do when starting out, especially while looking at new juku...
intermu The Japanese language 23 4,946 2010-01-07, 8:50 pm
    Thread: What is your immersion environment like?
Post: What is your immersion environment like?

KREVA Wrote:Well, I'd say that most of my improvement has just been through constant exposure over time. When I first started out learning Japanese, listening was so hard because I would focus so har...
intermu Learning resources 33 8,162 2009-12-31, 9:04 pm
    Thread: Best of 2009
Post: Best of 2009

Most influential discovery in learning Japanese this year: actually having the will to start a study on another language. Honorary mention goes to AJATT for actually pushing me to start RtK and start...
intermu General discussion 15 2,081 2009-12-24, 11:48 pm
    Thread: After RtK1
Post: After RtK1

I don't really understand how to actually run the program correctly (installed Perl and stuff but is still lost), so I guess I'll go from the KO2001 deck. I guess I'll try and sort the decks later on...
intermu The Japanese language 23 4,946 2009-12-24, 11:45 pm
    Thread: After RtK1
Post: After RtK1

I apparently downloaded a file called sorted-sentences.zip from.. somewhere, although I don't remember exactly in which thread. But I went through a couple of the sentences, and I'm seeing: 会社に行く時、山...
intermu The Japanese language 23 4,946 2009-12-23, 4:32 pm