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Thread: How to remember hiragana words Post: How to remember hiragana words I guess brute memorization always works, if you put enough effort in it. Myself, I am not that patient. In 'げっそり''s case, given that jisho.org does not list it as a common word, it would not be my hig... |
EWLameijer | The Japanese language | 9 | 3,800 | 2013-10-19, 2:16 am | ||
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Thread: What's the best advice you can give to a beginner? Post: What's the best advice you can give to a beginner? Hmm.. best advice I can give is whenever you notice that either you are not spending time every day on Japanese or when you notice your attention drifting away when you're studying, you need to remind... |
EWLameijer | General discussion | 74 | 11,593 | 2013-01-06, 3:52 am | ||
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Thread: Advice on Vocabulary SRS/Chunking/Learning Post: Advice on Vocabulary SRS/Chunking/Learning Thank you for all your replies. I've taken a bit of a break from the discussion to experiment and reflect. Howtwosavealif3 seems to be right about the reading speed; my reading speed for kana at least... |
EWLameijer | General discussion | 27 | 6,604 | 2012-08-05, 1:05 pm | ||
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Thread: Advice on Vocabulary SRS/Chunking/Learning Post: Advice on Vocabulary SRS/Chunking/Learning supermancampus Wrote:vix86 Wrote:According to the American Heritage Dictionary, run has 28 different meanings as an Intransitive verb, 31 as a Transitive, and 30 as a noun. This is quite a bit and I g... |
EWLameijer | General discussion | 27 | 6,604 | 2012-06-17, 4:46 pm | ||
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Thread: Advice on Vocabulary SRS/Chunking/Learning Post: Advice on Vocabulary SRS/Chunking/Learning And also my thanks for your comments! I will definitely give the 'learning from sentences'-method more consideration, also since you're right that there is no such thing as a 'translation' for a word;... |
EWLameijer | General discussion | 27 | 6,604 | 2012-06-16, 1:37 pm | ||
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Thread: Need some help with my study plan Post: Need some help with my study plan As far as we know (and the OP apparently noticed as well), people are not very well suited to learn to speak grammatically by cramming grammar rules and trying to use them to produce sentences on the ... |
EWLameijer | General discussion | 5 | 1,523 | 2012-06-15, 5:31 pm | ||
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Thread: I sometimes wonder is just hiragana enough? Post: I sometimes wonder is just hiragana enough? Basically, the thousands of years before AD 400 everyone in Japan was illiterate and they managed just fine with oral comprehension and without any writing system! While I personally like books and I... |
EWLameijer | General discussion | 35 | 10,502 | 2012-06-15, 5:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Advice on Vocabulary SRS/Chunking/Learning Post: Advice on Vocabulary SRS/Chunking/Learning Actually, I'm having the same question as supermancampus; while Heisig 1 went relatively well for me (around 90% retention) my retention dropped like a well-oiled brick when starting vocab. So I, too,... |
EWLameijer | General discussion | 27 | 6,604 | 2012-06-15, 4:49 pm | ||
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Thread: Learning order Post: Learning order A very small remark... I think that most people find Kanji hard, and learning Japanese sentences as a beginner perhaps even harder! Basically, the more complex a Kanji is, the harder it is to learn; ... |
EWLameijer | Remembering the Kanji | 14 | 4,213 | 2012-06-08, 2:26 am | ||
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Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread. Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"... I finished today as well... second attempt, getting first time to 1200 (about 1 year ago), this time complete, about 3 months (March 22nd - June 5th). Bit of a challenge, but doable. Now to try the re... |
EWLameijer | Remembering the Kanji | 1,845 | 424,771 | 2012-06-05, 5:00 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! Also at 3/4 now. I'm noticing I'm slowing down as I'm now getting to Kanji that I didn't learn on my first attempt (to 1300 or such), still, if I concentrate and keep a steady and patient pace, I shou... |
EWLameijer | Remembering the Kanji | 462 | 138,243 | 2012-05-18, 5:15 am | ||
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Thread: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! Post: 500 frames and counting! ROOOOARRRR!!! And I probably shouldn't forget this while mentioning my 1021 kanji; on to the 1500-something kanji now! |
EWLameijer | Remembering the Kanji | 526 | 167,179 | 2012-04-28, 3:00 pm | ||
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Thread: Half way! Post: Half way! And halfway there as well! Second attempt, I admit, but having good hopes that making some changes to my study strategies will pay off, especially if I remain patient. |
EWLameijer | Remembering the Kanji | 616 | 180,502 | 2012-04-28, 2:57 pm | ||
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Thread: How do you learn new frames? Post: How do you learn new frames? Personally, I just use the 'add 25 kanji'-button on this website, and even if I don't enter the Kanji themselves, I tend to remember most of them. To my understanding, it is not very productive to sp... |
EWLameijer | Remembering the Kanji | 10 | 3,417 | 2012-04-20, 2:51 pm | ||
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Thread: What am I doing wrong? Post: What am I doing wrong? Hi Koos, you're right that changing keywords or radicals can be dangerous; this is why I generally try to use comic book figures and such of which I truly hope that Heisig has not found an ancient Ja... |
EWLameijer | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 5,759 | 2011-03-06, 5:37 pm | ||
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Thread: What am I doing wrong? Post: What am I doing wrong? I also started the Kanji study a few days ago - and at first I also got retention rates going erratically from 100% to 40%. I must admit though that when I was working late and I was tired I failed ma... |
EWLameijer | Remembering the Kanji | 20 | 5,759 | 2011-02-27, 7:15 am | ||