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    Thread: What is RtK ????
Post: What is RtK ????

Let's go with the source itself. The introduction to the book explains it all.
Kieron Remembering the Kanji 43 10,516 2008-04-10, 2:54 pm
    Thread: Is 2042 not enough?
Post: Is 2042 not enough?

Speaking of, is there an index of the RTK3 keywords and kanji available somewhere online, similar to ziggr's extremely helpful RTK1 list?
Kieron Remembering the Kanji 17 9,751 2008-04-06, 2:26 pm
    Thread: Stroke order for 夢, por favor
Post: Stroke order for 夢, por favor

http://taka.sourceforge.net/current/kanji/J4C34
Kieron Remembering the Kanji 5 3,105 2008-04-02, 10:40 pm
    Thread: Who Introduced you to Heisig?
Post: Who Introduced you to Heisig?

I honestly can't remember where I heard about Heisig, at least not more specifically than "the Internet". However, I do know that finding this site was the most important factor in deciding to tackle...
Kieron General discussion 47 13,188 2008-02-26, 2:08 am
    Thread: Interesting unicode characters...
Post: Interesting unicode characters...

uberstuber Wrote:I guess SCIM (for linux) isn't as complete as windows' IME (T__T) I can't get ハート、雪だるま, etc. Anthy has a 2ch dictionary, but it doesn't seem to be quite the same. For example, I can...
Kieron The Japanese language 25 12,076 2008-01-25, 2:23 am
    Thread: Sticky Points
Post: Sticky Points

laner36 Wrote:How do you know what number review you are approaching? Check the "my profile" link at the top of any non-forum page.
Kieron General discussion 7 1,467 2007-11-14, 12:35 am
    Thread: Sticky Points
Post: Sticky Points

I've long suspected that a large number of users with those round numbers are merely putting in some number of flash cards to see how the site works, but are not actually studying through. If you che...
Kieron General discussion 7 1,467 2007-11-13, 3:30 pm
    Thread: Spanish keywords
Post: Spanish keywords

None publicly that I'm aware of, unless someone's obtained permission from the translator of that edition (see also this post on the subject).
Kieron Remembering the Kanji 20 8,060 2007-11-12, 3:13 pm
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

File and folder names starting with a period are hidden by default. There's probably a feature in the Finder to turn on display of hidden files; if not, ls -a (for all files) at the terminal will dis...
Kieron Learning resources 999 230,451 2007-11-10, 9:42 pm
    Thread: Kanji Games for the Nintendo DS
Post: Kanji Games for the Nintendo DS

JimmySeal Wrote:Oh, and technically, the name of the game is 財団法人 日本漢字能力検定協会 公認 漢検DS2 + 常用漢字辞典. Gosh, they need to find less ridiculously long names for their video games. It looks like they've got s...
Kieron Learning resources 231 128,187 2007-10-11, 11:53 pm
    Thread: A big problem.. advice?
Post: A big problem.. advice?

zazen666 Wrote:Click the red ## failed kanji link doesnt give it to you as flash cards I beleive, which the above link does :) Right you are. I wonder why I thought otherwise?
Kieron Remembering the Kanji 18 3,817 2007-10-09, 10:41 pm
    Thread: Non-RTK characters in JIS level 1
Post: Non-RTK characters in JIS level 1

When I've been taken with the urge to make some lists, I can generally squeeze what I need out of the standard Unix command-line tools for text processing - sort, grep, uniq, cut, and the like. If I ...
Kieron JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan 18 8,215 2007-10-09, 10:27 pm
    Thread: A big problem.. advice?
Post: A big problem.. advice?

zazen666 Wrote:I always use the reviewing the red stack option. works great for me. I am not sure what its not a regular option. Click the red "## Failed Kanji" link above the Study button on the fron...
Kieron Remembering the Kanji 18 3,817 2007-10-09, 6:44 pm
    Thread: Eletronic Dictionaries
Post: Eletronic Dictionaries

Here's a spotter's guide. DS Rakubiki Jiten (DS楽引辞典): [Image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/R...ijiten.jpg] Kanji Sonomana Rakubiki Jiten (漢字そのまま楽引辞典): [Image: http://ec1.images-amazon.com/...
Kieron Learning resources 30 8,543 2007-10-09, 1:05 am
    Thread: Kanji Games for the Nintendo DS
Post: Kanji Games for the Nintendo DS

JimmySeal Wrote:I tried out the new Kanken DS 2 yesterday, and I'm pleased to say it has made a number of improvements over the original. Looks interesting. I don't have either; are they complimentar...
Kieron Learning resources 231 128,187 2007-10-05, 6:21 pm
    Thread: Mistakes in RTK1, 5th edition
Post: Mistakes in RTK1, 5th edition

Penguin Wrote:On frame 982 Buddhist Priest, the book lists the primitive as increase instead of formerly. The same mistake is also made on another kanji, but I can't remember which one it was. That's ...
Kieron Remembering the Kanji 14 6,645 2007-10-02, 11:55 am
    Thread: Finished the sample and can't get the book - what now?
Post: Finished the sample and can't get the book - what ...

Jarvik7 Wrote:I think you can order it directly from the publisher as well. That you can, right here. It looks like they ship worldwide.
Kieron Remembering the Kanji 8 1,904 2007-09-14, 2:06 pm
    Thread: The RtK Volume I, 5th Edition Thread
Post: The RtK Volume I, 5th Edition Thread

I suspect it's one of the many tasks that's easy to describe, but trickier to retrofit into existing code that wasn't designed for it.
Kieron Remembering the Kanji 17 6,746 2007-09-09, 9:24 pm
    Thread: kana keyboard input
Post: kana keyboard input

I'm using skim and friends, and have it set up so that I can cycle the input modes through Anthy (kana->kanji conversion), hiragana only, and katakana only. Works well - the only thing I had to ch...
Kieron Off topic 6 4,147 2007-08-19, 2:20 pm
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

New Debian/Ubuntu packages for 0.3.3, now featuring GNOME/KDE menu entries! I'll keep leaving new builds in this directory (ignore the other files, they're for non-anki projects): http://magnet.ofb....
Kieron Learning resources 999 230,451 2007-08-15, 12:42 am
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

It will show up in the Debian menu (if you have the 'menu' package installed) under Applications -> Education, but not yet the native GNOME or KDE menus. I'll fix that for the next build.
Kieron Learning resources 999 230,451 2007-08-13, 12:01 am
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

I've built Anki packages for Debian, which should work on Ubuntu as well -- if there are other users of those two OSes around, please give them a try and tell me if they work! http://magnet.ofb.net/d...
Kieron Learning resources 999 230,451 2007-08-12, 7:59 pm
    Thread: The Katakana are kicking my ***
Post: The Katakana are kicking my ***

For the katakana, I'd grab a set of flash cards and carry those around for a week or two as well as writing them down a lot. There's few enough of them that good ol' brute-force memorization works we...
Kieron The Japanese language 17 6,315 2007-08-12, 1:56 pm
    Thread: The RtK Volume I, 5th Edition Thread
Post: The RtK Volume I, 5th Edition Thread

No, those remain unchanged in the 5th edition, though that's no reason not to swap them anyway.
Kieron Remembering the Kanji 17 6,746 2007-08-04, 2:16 pm
    Thread: Anki?
Post: Anki?

I set up the input methods long enough ago that I don't recall exactly what I did, but I do remember that I had to manually uncomment QT_IM_MODULE=scim in /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim (or the local co...
Kieron Learning resources 999 230,451 2007-08-01, 11:48 am
    Thread: RTK II: Where to buy
Post: RTK II: Where to buy

I've still seen one new copy at a bookstore near me, priced at $40 -- if anyone else needs a copy before the next edition's published (and if Kinokuniya runs out), I'd be happy to pick it up and s...
Kieron Remembering the Kanji 15 4,913 2007-07-31, 8:42 pm
    Thread: Which kanji I really failed?
Post: Which kanji I really failed?

I would (and routinely do) fail cards where I can't remember one primitive. It guarantees that at least one card with the forgotten primitive goes back into heavier rotation for a bit, and to that ex...
Kieron Remembering the Kanji 14 2,454 2007-07-28, 12:18 am
    Thread: 好好學習,天天向上: All Things Chinese
Post: 好好學習,天天向上: All Things Chinese

It's not the "first" 1000, but 1000 chosen as a demonstration project. The author has some commentary on his thesis, where he states: Timothy Richardson Wrote:Importantly, the 1,000-character Chinese...
Kieron The Japanese language 42 20,463 2007-07-24, 7:47 pm
    Thread: Why is grade 7 skipped?
Post: Why is grade 7 skipped?

See where? I don't know of anything on the site that's divided up by the Japanese school order, since RtK doesn't follow that. If you're looking at another site, it may use "8" to represent the seco...
Kieron General discussion 10 6,373 2007-07-22, 8:42 pm
    Thread: Non 常用漢字 in RTK1
Post: Non 常用漢字 in RTK1

Megaqwerty Wrote:Did you use a script or did you make that by hand? Script. (Well, a one-line grep command.) I already had made a version of the keyword list with grade levels attached, so I searche...
Kieron Remembering the Kanji 5 3,945 2007-07-20, 3:57 pm