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    Thread: Any advice to your past self learning Japanese?
Post: Any advice to your past self learning Japanese?

aldebrn Wrote:Maybe I should ask this in a new thread. Would taking dictation be a good way to practice 'listening', beyond just passive listening? Just a few options for active listening: (1) Jpod...
brianobush The Japanese language 23 4,113 2014-09-05, 11:45 am
    Thread: Any advice to your past self learning Japanese?
Post: Any advice to your past self learning Japanese?

* RTK is awesome, do it, but don't dwell * Don't use an SRS app, it may be awesome but you will burn out. * Focus on vocab earlier * Converse and read more EDIT: I also think RTK lite might be bett...
brianobush The Japanese language 23 4,113 2014-09-04, 6:51 pm
    Thread: Reviewing Kanji Odyssey
Post: Reviewing Kanji Odyssey

mkabness Wrote:brianobush Wrote:There are already a couple decks with KO content. Check out the shared decks. There aren't any KO decks in the anki shared decks. Actually I want to create my on deck b...
brianobush Learning resources 7 1,938 2014-08-22, 4:27 pm
    Thread: Reviewing Kanji Odyssey
Post: Reviewing Kanji Odyssey

There are already a couple decks with KO content. Check out the shared decks.
brianobush Learning resources 7 1,938 2014-08-20, 12:37 pm
    Thread: Well, I finally tried out A n k i....
Post: Well, I finally tried out A n k i....

You can always study old-school style with paper and pencil/pen. I dropped Anki years ago and haven't missed it. I am sure I am not that efficient, but I enjoy studying which is what matters to me. ...
brianobush Learning resources 23 3,596 2014-06-16, 1:43 am
    Thread: Memory storage finally figured out?
Post: Memory storage finally figured out?

vix86 Wrote:Every nuclear disaster to occur has been the result of the incompetence of management. That is why you must consider the system as a whole. Generating power is not only about the method by...
brianobush Off topic 21 2,808 2012-03-23, 3:31 pm
    Thread: Research: What would you like to see?
Post: Research: What would you like to see?

make a version of duolingo.com, but for Japanese.
brianobush General discussion 28 3,412 2012-03-11, 2:17 am
    Thread: Anki - mobile version for iphone/ipad - Is it still #1?
Post: Anki - mobile version for iphone/ipad - Is it stil...

bigpun69 Wrote:Personally, I forked out the cash for the Anki iPhone app. It is more expensive than other applications, but to be honest it's a tiny price to pay considering I can access my decks anyw...
brianobush Learning resources 41 27,518 2012-03-11, 1:57 am
    Thread: Martial Arts
Post: Martial Arts

Irixmark Wrote:Martial arts are much more a form of physical and mental exercise. Japanese martial arts as we know them evolved during the Edo period when the country was at peace and few people had a...
brianobush General discussion 49 8,515 2012-03-04, 11:09 pm
    Thread: PhD funding in Japan
Post: PhD funding in Japan

Joining this conversation late and wanted to thank you all for your comments. Very enlightening. I am mid-way though my PhD studies (in speech recognition) and plan on looking for a post-doc positio...
brianobush JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 35 11,615 2012-02-27, 1:33 am
    Thread: C Programming: A Modern Approach
Post: C Programming: A Modern Approach

chamcham Wrote:Get the K&R (Kernighan & Ritchie) book "The C Programming Language". I would second this. I have been programming in C for 20 years (yes, I am *that* young) and use C daily to s...
brianobush Off topic 10 3,925 2011-10-27, 4:48 pm
    Thread: Please tell me about your study methods
Post: Please tell me about your study methods

Surreal Wrote:Just a comment: I think it would be fair of you to say whether you are doing this for monetary gains or if the tool will be available for free. I don't think asking questions in this for...
brianobush General discussion 20 5,802 2011-10-25, 11:39 pm
    Thread: Self study, SRS only. Thoughts and Results.
Post: Self study, SRS only. Thoughts and Results.

BohemianCoast Wrote:Separately, I'd have thought that people only wanting 1000 kanji should do RTK Lite; some of the commonest kanji come at the end of RTK and if you don't do the lot then you won't r...
brianobush Learning resources 22 4,716 2011-10-18, 3:48 pm
    Thread: Post your *ambitious* goal here!
Post: Post your *ambitious* goal here!

Want to be able to understand Japanese well enough to understand phonetics, speech modeling difficulties, etc. Bonus would to be able to read academic papers in my area - Automatic Speech Recognition ...
brianobush General discussion 96 18,429 2011-10-15, 12:04 am
    Thread: Heisig + RPG = Ninja Words App???
Post: Heisig + RPG = Ninja Words App???

They have a lite version now. Pretty nice game, but still limited to 500 Kanji and they present you English. Still fun.
brianobush Learning resources 5 3,898 2011-09-24, 12:56 am
    Thread: use of the memory palace technique
Post: use of the memory palace technique

Gingerninja Wrote:I saw a guy do this once using the level editor in doom as a way of memorising, he'd make a level run through it and at each point he'd think of something and then whenever he had to...
brianobush Remembering the Kanji 10 8,035 2011-05-30, 1:58 pm
    Thread: use of the memory palace technique
Post: use of the memory palace technique

nadiatims Wrote:Considering that language learning is largely an exercise in getting things into the long term memory, I think these kind of memory hacks (and possibly also SRS) are completely unneces...
brianobush Remembering the Kanji 10 8,035 2011-05-30, 1:50 pm
    Thread: New Site: Fixoodle.com
Post: New Site: Fixoodle.com

I am looking forwards to http://duolingo.com/ which is from the inventor of recaptcha. Learn a language while translating the web...
brianobush Learning resources 8 4,322 2011-05-21, 1:59 am
    Thread: What age are you?
Post: What age are you?

nadiatims Wrote:If SRSing takes up more than 10% of your study time (including language usage as study time) then I really think you're better off quitting the SRSing and just getting more comprehensi...
brianobush Off topic 357 73,684 2011-05-11, 10:27 pm
    Thread: What age are you?
Post: What age are you?

Tzadeck Wrote:brianobush Wrote:Now back at RTK but with Japanese keywords and loving it, at 400 in KO2001 order. Many of the kanji I already know quite well, but am learning new vocabulary along with ...
brianobush Off topic 357 73,684 2011-05-10, 11:23 pm
    Thread: What age are you?
Post: What age are you?

Age: 38 (or something around there) Finished RTK the first time in 2009 in four months. Kept up for another six months, then tired of reviews even though I had only ~20 per day. Continued with senten...
brianobush Off topic 357 73,684 2011-05-10, 8:16 pm
    Thread: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in)
Post: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in)

arnaldosfjunior Wrote:i made a mistake and lose my 8 level . now im zero again.... in future illmake backups. i think i lose data opening 2 anki same time. You shouldn't do that. The last to update yo...
brianobush Learning resources 195 62,255 2011-03-11, 7:27 pm
    Thread: japanese 先生 = core 10000?
Post: japanese 先生 = core 10000?

nest0r Wrote:Did someone already find a way to match it all? I noticed this deck shared on Anki. (Japanese Core 10000 or something.) I just took a peek and it is the complete set, however we haven't v...
brianobush Learning resources 63 20,206 2011-03-08, 12:37 am
    Thread: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in)
Post: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in)

Proxx Wrote:If you are interested I could make an own scoreboard for your plugin. This option sounds good! Once available, I can re-add the scoreboard functionality with a new url.
brianobush Learning resources 195 62,255 2011-03-07, 6:19 pm
    Thread: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in)
Post: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in)

jesse Wrote:arnaldosfjunior Wrote:we need a scoreboard for the mod. Im now addicted in the game. There's already an online scoreboard for AnkiWarrior: http://ankiwarrior.hallojapan.de/score.php I remo...
brianobush Learning resources 195 62,255 2011-03-07, 11:36 am
    Thread: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in)
Post: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in)

mpacheco Wrote:Got the following error, restarted Anki and things are going ok. I guess it's a problem with the progress announcement? : Support/Anki/plugins/AnkiWarrior.py", line 20, in cardAnswered...
brianobush Learning resources 195 62,255 2011-03-06, 9:49 pm
    Thread: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in)
Post: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in)

arnaldosfjunior Wrote:I yet cant try this cause have a problem with decoding unicode. I have made an actual plugin that is downloadable from within Anki. All fixes are contained and cleaned up some of...
brianobush Learning resources 195 62,255 2011-03-06, 8:40 pm
    Thread: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in)
Post: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in)

If anyone has any problems with nanpANKI with regards to unicode issues, I have a patch - just PM me. We might want to fork AnkiWarrior so this can be versioned, updated, etc easily. EDIT: BTW, thank...
brianobush Learning resources 195 62,255 2011-03-06, 5:04 pm
    Thread: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in)
Post: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in)

arnaldosfjunior Wrote:http://www.jheat.com/av-idol/big-breasts/ here they have data for it. Nice site, but the problem wasn't the lack of images/data, but making AW look like shomp's
brianobush Learning resources 195 62,255 2011-03-05, 3:46 pm
    Thread: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in)
Post: AnkiWarrior - making Anki more addictive (plug-in)

arnaldosfjunior Wrote:As soon as you can post this mod, shomp. This is the plugin of my dreams.Really genious mod you working in. I modified Anki-warrior and added an idol just see how complicated the...
brianobush Learning resources 195 62,255 2011-03-05, 2:25 pm