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    Thread: How many times have you restarted learning Japanese?
Post: How many times have you restarted learning Japanes...

I'm constantly restarting to learn japanese because I haven't found a method I'm motivated enough to finish it: -I did RTK. I had two big stops, finishing it in two years. I've stopped the reviews an...
breakies The Japanese language 14 5,048 2012-10-01, 2:43 pm
    Thread: Chapter 23 - Who's idea was this?
Post: Chapter 23 - Who's idea was this?

On chapter 23, I divided into bits : since I was learning normally 25/30 kanji a week, I did this one in three sessions (I already learnt more kanji than usual, but since it was the ame chapter, I kne...
breakies Remembering the Kanji 18 3,361 2012-01-22, 6:47 am
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

I had up to 750 expired cards 8 days ago and regularly more than 300 during the last two months. Today, I say goodbye to my orange cards \o/ I just hope to have the courage to continue my reviens dail...
breakies General discussion 1,389 294,557 2011-08-30, 10:15 am
    Thread: 873 expired kanji
Post: 873 expired kanji

Congrats, I had only gone up to 650 kanji. Currently I am at 500 expired cards. My method: Do some expired cards, stop when you have 30 expired cards, review them and begin again. Stop when you're fed...
breakies Remembering the Kanji 17 4,619 2011-08-01, 1:43 pm
    Thread: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me" thread.
Post: The "I just finished RTK1, please congratulate me"...

(putain, deux ans !) Finished. In two years <__< ..yeah, I was not very quick compared to others. One advice for the others: try to to it more rapidly than me. Two years, you can be fed up wit...
breakies Remembering the Kanji 1,845 424,660 2011-07-17, 3:38 pm
    Thread: Why Japanese stop following you on Twitter
Post: Why Japanese stop following you on Twitter

A real what ? 0:-)
breakies General discussion 12 4,625 2011-07-10, 4:09 pm
    Thread: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling
Post: Introvert vs. Extrovert - general rambling

Hello Raschaverak, You're not alone, I'm a bit in the same situation for many points. ^^ You shouldn't regret your studies. I'm sure that you had a very precise idea : you wanted to success in your ...
breakies Off topic 222 48,823 2011-05-30, 6:31 pm
    Thread: The Discouragement Thread
Post: The Discouragement Thread

I've already had more than 200 expired flashcards to review but during all this month, I was not able to make my review every day more than 5 days in the row. And something is just making fun of me : ...
breakies Off topic 311 69,121 2011-05-28, 5:21 pm
    Thread: RTK in Spanish.
Post: RTK in Spanish.

You can have a look to the spanish version here: http://issuu.com/maleee/docs/name03a4f4
breakies Remembering the Kanji 12 5,323 2011-05-11, 4:48 pm
    Thread: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here
Post: Post Your Recent Milestone Achievement Here

Yesterday I added my 2000th kanji and successed in finishing the kanji sensei level on Kanji box (I had failed twice), a program on Facebook :P
breakies General discussion 1,389 294,557 2011-05-09, 1:49 pm
    Thread: Internet browser
Post: Internet browser

Internet explorer for Windows Update cos I don't have choice. Firefox for every day surf because of good plugin choice [I advice not to setup latest version (when it's N.x -> N+1.0), version 4 for...
breakies Off topic 38 9,328 2011-05-09, 6:34 am
    Thread: Handwriting Kanji Dictionary Online.
Post: Handwriting Kanji Dictionary Online.

Another link like this : http://kanji.sljfaq.org/kanji16/draw-canvas.html
breakies Learning resources 6 5,786 2011-05-04, 4:50 pm
    Thread: Another anki solution - please!
Post: Another anki solution - please!

Or a phone on Android or a MP3/MP4 player on Android, like Samsung Galaxy Player 50.
breakies Learning resources 9 4,118 2011-04-13, 3:33 pm
    Thread: RTK1 in French / RTK1 en français
Post: RTK1 in French / RTK1 en français

Bonjour, J'ai écrit à Yves Maniette pour lui signaler deux ou trois erreurs, notamment dans l'attribution d'un même mot clé pour 2 kanji différents et il m'a communiqué ce que devrait être les nouvea...
breakies Remembering the Kanji 28 27,838 2011-04-10, 9:29 am
    Thread: Getting a Japanese girlfriend?
Post: Getting a Japanese girlfriend?

bodhisamaya Wrote:nest0r Wrote:気持ち悪い。 What men discuss openly on forums is much more tame compared to what women gossip about in private. Having worked in industries dominated by women most of my li...
breakies General discussion 94 23,737 2011-04-10, 5:08 am
    Thread: Most forgettable kanji?
Post: Most forgettable kanji?

I'm up to 1900 and something, started 1.5 years ago, and there are 3 kanji I missed 16 times ^^: 提 (box 2) => I always finish to forget the part on the right. 浸 (box 6) => The part on the rig...
breakies Remembering the Kanji 4 1,321 2011-04-10, 4:59 am
    Thread: Ultimate Japanese Phrasebook
Post: Ultimate Japanese Phrasebook

I've got Harrap's one in french version and it's quite good. I don't know if english is similar, though, but if that helps... http://www.amazon.com/Harraps-Japanese-P...178&sr=8-1 edit: it seems...
breakies Learning resources 14 7,755 2011-02-20, 1:07 pm
    Thread: The thread 4 the rest of us
Post: The thread 4 the rest of us

I learn hiragana/katakana in mid-2009, and I've started RTK in July 09. I've not finished yet. Since the beginning of the year, I'm listening JapanesePod101.com podcasts. I'm going to Japan at the en...
breakies General discussion 50 10,411 2011-02-11, 3:46 pm
    Thread: How Many RTK Reviews do you have due each day?
Post: How Many RTK Reviews do you have due each day?

I think the main asset to do RTK fastly is there is less risk you give up because you're annoyed. The main asset to do it slowly is that your expired cards are unlikely to explode. With a mean rythm ...
breakies Remembering the Kanji 26 8,442 2011-01-08, 6:58 pm
    Thread: Started French!
Post: Started French!

Conjugations, I don't know if it's quite useful to copy Besherelle pages with all the forms. Learn the conjugations when you learn a new tense. It's like that french are used to learn their conjugatio...
breakies General discussion 12 2,694 2011-01-08, 9:29 am
    Thread: RTK1 in French / RTK1 en français
Post: RTK1 in French / RTK1 en français

Je pense qu'il faut avoir nécessairement un des livres, que ce soit l'anglais ou le français. Les échantillons ne couvrent, si je me souviens bien, que 250 kanji. Et sur ce site, il 'y a pas la signif...
breakies Remembering the Kanji 28 27,838 2011-01-08, 9:25 am
    Thread: RTK1 in French / RTK1 en français
Post: RTK1 in French / RTK1 en français

Attention, le mot français n'est pas toujours la traduction du mot anglais. Maniette a quelquefois pris un mot clé correspondant aussi au kanji, mais différent du choix de Heisig. (sur le fichier exce...
breakies Remembering the Kanji 28 27,838 2011-01-06, 5:10 pm
    Thread: RTK1 in French / RTK1 en français
Post: RTK1 in French / RTK1 en français

Salut, j'ai la version française et j'en suis satisfaite. J'ai mon propre fichier avec lesquels j'ai changé les noms pour mettre la version française sur ce site. Kanji Gym a les noms en français et ...
breakies Remembering the Kanji 28 27,838 2011-01-06, 3:31 pm
    Thread: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!
Post: On frame 1531. 3/4 of the way done!

Hit the 1560th kanji, which correspond to my three quarters, since I study French version + RTK-omnibus-until-2042. If I continue at the same rythm, I should write in "I finish RTK" in next july @.@ S...
breakies Remembering the Kanji 462 138,199 2010-12-31, 1:22 pm
    Thread: Stopped for 2 weeks, forgot everything...
Post: Stopped for 2 weeks, forgot everything...

Hello joeb11, I had the same trouble few months ago. It's normal to have a very bad retention rate after a big stop : but it's also true that the most you review, the most your retention rate increas...
breakies Remembering the Kanji 28 5,493 2010-12-30, 3:05 pm
    Thread: Language learning = time-consuming for the rest of your life?
Post: Language learning = time-consuming for the rest of...

I want to reply but with a more general answer. You're mortal, I want to say that you pass your limited time on earth to lose your time : you lose time by playing, by eating, by sleeping, by studyin...
breakies The Japanese language 21 5,862 2010-12-25, 1:49 pm
    Thread: Christmas Donations for Fabrice
Post: Christmas Donations for Fabrice

Baaaaahhhh. +20€ dans la chaussette. EDIT: ;) Only 40€ to have 500€ then Hum, so, I don't use much the website since french version proposes a lot of stories, but when I just can't remember one and...
breakies Off topic 393 86,419 2010-12-16, 3:43 pm
    Thread: Best Android Apps For Learning Japanese.
Post: Best Android Apps For Learning Japanese.

For having seeked through Android possibilities in order to choose the best solution for electronic distionaries, I've found this one which seems OK: http://code.google.com/p/aedict/
breakies Learning resources 9 13,165 2010-12-08, 4:38 pm
    Thread: Best japanese dictionary ?
Post: Best japanese dictionary ?

Thanks for all your replies. For the moment, I don't own any DS/Apple gadget or phone with Android. I agree neither of these solutions will replace, for me, the personal computer, but I wish I could ...
breakies Learning resources 11 7,260 2010-12-08, 3:47 pm
    Thread: Any grammar book similar to All About Particles?
Post: Any grammar book similar to All About Particles?

If you like All about particles, you might be interested by this one, written also by Naoko Chino. You can see a preview of the book here : http://www.scribd.com/doc/39863173/How-t...-Particles In t...
breakies Learning resources 10 2,280 2010-12-07, 5:52 pm